Humanities in Medicine

Code:

MI113

Acronym:

HUMED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=539
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Educação e Simulação Médica
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	284	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	1	-	3	28	81

Modules

Code	Name
MI113_A
MI113_B

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To develop the instrumental role of humanities as a resource in healthcare professional education, towards: (1) transversal competencies, (2) humanistic competences; (3) self-awareness competencies; (4) recognition of different situations in the context of healthcare.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end, students should be able to:

- Promote the skill to incorporate the work into other areas of knowledge;

- Value the meaning of History of Medicine;

- Integrate History of Medicine with the social attitudes in a particular society and time;

- Understand change and continuity of medical progress;

- Recognize international and portuguese foundations of History of Medicine;

- Recognize social and cultural representation of health in multidimensional and ecological perspectives;

- Understand the life cycle and its social and cultural determinants;

- Foster reflection and deliberation on the human condition;

- Encourage effective communication within science/medicine;

- Develop critical thinking and reflexive practice.

- Understand the life cycle and the social and cultural determinants of this cycle in professionalism;

- Foster reflection and deliberation on the human condition (loss, dying, suffering, grief, life and death);

- Encourage effective communication within science and medicine;

- Develop critical thinking and reflexive practice in the professional practice.

Working method

Presencial

Program

History of Medicine

Medicine, an endless source of patrimony.

International history of Medicine

Portuguese History of Medicine

History of surgical instruments

Medical anthropology in the integral medical education

Human cadaver and its centrality towards the development of communication skills in medicine

Life cycle and social and cultural determinants of this cycle in healthcare;

Interpersonal development

Reflective practice - “On becoming a doctor”

Art in Medicine – the art of observation

Professionalism

 

Guided visits to the Museum of History of Medicine 

Mandatory literature

Griner; The Power of Patients Stories. Learning Moments in Medicine, P.F. (ed.), 2012
José Nuno Silva; A morte e o morrer. Entre o deslugar e o lugar, Edições Afrontamento, 2012
Whitmore, J; Coaching for Performance (People Skills for Professionals), , Nicholas Brealey Publish, London, 2002
Branch, W. ; The road to professionalism: reflective practice and reflective learning, Patient Educ Couns 80 (2010) 327-332
Driessen, E., Tartwijk, J., Dornan, T; The self critical doctor: helping students become more reflective, BMJ 2008; 336:827-30.
Klugman, C., Peel, J. Art rounds; teaching interprofessional students visual thinking strategies at one school, Acad Med, 2011, 86(10).

Teaching methods and learning activities

Total contact hours: 30 h

Lectures: 11 h

Seminars: 19 h

Assessment: 1 h

Total student workload – 81 h

Lectures will be preferentially located to the area of History of Medicine, and other themes which will be identified important towards providing a stimulus of new perspectives in the integral education of medical students. The seminar will allow the development of time to interactive discussion of ideas and concepts, in order to promote critical reflection on cases, ideas, clinical and life situations.

The final classification will have a 30% componentfor History of Medicine (HM), 50% for seminar work (SW), 5% for attendance (A) and 15% for seminarmini-test (SM) to obtain approval for the course.

FC=30%*HM+50%*SW+5%*A+15%*SM

Software

Turnitin

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Medical training
Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine > Human anatomy
Humanities > History > History of science
Social sciences > Anthropology > Medical anthropology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	30,00
Participação presencial	5,00
Teste	15,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification(FC) will have a 30% componente for History of Medicine (HM), 50% for seminar work (SW), 5% for attendance (A) and 15% for seminar mini-test (SM) to obtain approval for the course.

FC=30%*HM+50%*SW+5%*A+15%*SM

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working Student

The final classification will have a 30% componente for History of Medicine (HM), 70% for seminar work (SW) to obtain approval for the course.

FC=30%*HM+50%*SW