Abstract
Medical humanities: developing into a mainstream discipline.
Highlights
To the editor: I read with great interest the article titled ‘Is assessment of medical humanities test needed in the national medical licensing examination of Korea: opinions of medical students and physician writers’ [1]
The case scenarios mentioned in the article as part of the questionnaire are mainly concerned with medical ethics
The author mentions six features which unite the two areas ranging from the use of interdisciplinary approaches, dealing with certain important aspects of the human condition, employing cases and practical reasoning and finding morally justifiable solutions. Another author mentions that bioethics in medical schools should not be considered as a part of or substituted for medical humanities within the curriculum [5]
Summary
To the editor: I read with great interest the article titled ‘Is assessment of medical humanities test needed in the national medical licensing examination of Korea: opinions of medical students and physician writers’ [1]. The author raises a number of issues related to medical humanities learning and assessment and the place of the subject in the medical curriculum. The case scenarios mentioned in the article as part of the questionnaire are mainly concerned with medical ethics.
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