In love with medical humanities! A survey on medical students' opinions and satisfaction with an integrated elective course.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Internationally, the teaching of medical humanities (MH) in medical schools is often limited to elective courses. It is therefore important to understand students' views in order to increase their participation in these courses. Three elective courses in medical humanities have been activated at the University of L'Aquila, which constitute a single educational pathway for medical students: a course in Visual thinking strategies, a course in Narrative medicine and a course in Reflective practices. This study aims to investigate medical students' opinions and satisfaction with these three medical humanities courses.

Materials and methods

We administered a questionnaire to all medical students who took a medical humanities course in the academic year 2023-2024 at t

SUBMITTER: Tusoni F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12506386 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature