Changes in Humanism During Medical School: a Synthesis of the Evidence

Buck, Era; Holden, Mark D.; Szauter, Karen

doi:10.1007/s40670-017-0438-9

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“…The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, which has a goal of promoting humanism in medical students, states on its website that ‘The humanistic healthcare professional demonstrates the following attributes: Integrity, excellence, collaboration and compassion, altruism, respect and resilience, empathy, and service’ (Arnold P. Gold Foundation, , np). Buck, Holden, and Szauter () in a synthesis of studies looking at changes in humanism in medical students over time found that the most commonly mentioned construct in the literature was empathy, with others including integrity, compassion, altruism, respect, service and commitment to excellence. This list is very similar to the Gold Foundation attributes, which begs the question of a feedback loop in the literature, reaffirming agreement about what constitutes humanism for medical education.…”

Section: Humanism In Medical and Nursing Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

A humanism for nursing?

McCaffrey

2019

Nursing Inquiry

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Humanism has appeared intermittently in the nursing literature as a concept that can be used in understanding nursing. I return to the concept in response to noticing the term appearing in the context of health humanities, where it is loosely associated both with humanities and being humane. I review the usage and critiques of humanism in both nursing and medical literature and then re‐evaluate what the idea of humanism might hold for nursing, trying to avoid the traps of an over‐determination of the human subject, or dichotomizing nursing as art or science, technology or caring. I draw on writings on humanism primarily from Emmanuel Levinas and Edward Said to emphasize strands in humanism of obligation towards others and of critical discernment within history and culture directed towards democratic practices. I discuss in passing the strong association in the UK particularly between humanism and scientism as a note of caution about the plurality of the term humanism. I conclude that humanism is a tradition that does offer productive ways of thinking about nursing with the proviso that it ought to be treated carefully as a problematic tradition and not as a new essence for nursing.

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Section: Humanism In Medical and Nursing Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%