TOWARDS THE INTEGRATION OF HUMANITIES IN THE ACADEMIC CURRICULA OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS
TOWARDS THE INTEGRATION OF HUMANITIES IN THE ACADEMIC CURRICULA OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: Integrating medical humanities in the academic curricula of medical schools has become a necessity. This is a process that has already begun in the Romanian context, though it is not officially acknowledged and, more or less, this has fallen into the hands of foreign language teachers, as representatives of the so-called humanities. At prestigious universities around the world, medical humanities have become a compulsory topic in the students’ curriculum, with subjects explained by various specialists belonging to all fields that describe medical humanities (literature, art, creative writing, drama, film, music, philosophy, history, anthropology, theology, ethics). The Romanian medical schools still experience the beginnings of such an attempt. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to give some hints on how this topic has come to be discussed as part of the foreign language modules (ESP classes for 1st and 2nd year students in Dental Medicine at the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania), by stressing on subjects that are relevant in the context of English language use: culture as part of foreign language teaching, communication skills, academic writing, writing for the internet and technology.

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