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Humanities in undergraduate medical education: a literature review.

Jakob Ousager, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2010 - 
- Vol. 85, Iss: 6, pp 988-998
TLDR
Evidence on the positive long-term impacts of integrating humanities into undergraduatemedical education is sparse and may pose a threat to the continued development of humanities-related activities in undergraduate medical education in the context of current demands for evidence to demonstrate educational effectiveness.
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PurposeHumanities form an integral part of undergraduate medical curricula at numerous medical schools all over the world, and medical journals publish a considerable quantity of articles in this field. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the literature on humanities i

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