Program Components
Requirements
Year 1 and 2
Three Medical Humanities Seminars by the end of second year. (Non-Pathway students must complete 1 Medical Humanities seminar in first year, and 1 Medical Humanities Seminar in second year)
Year 3 and 4
At least four weeks of electives in Medical Humanities and/or Ethics (not all four weeks need to be in one elective)
- Clinical Bioethics
- Clinical Bioethics Research Project
- Clinical Bioethics and Palliative Care elective
- Art, Medicine and Literature
- Creative Writing
- Literature and Medicine elective
- History of Medicine elective
- Documentary Film and Medicine
- Research/Creative projects in Medical Humanities
Supervised Project
Must be completed and submitted by February 1 of fourth year.
Students are required to complete a project of their choosing—it can be a medical humanities research project, a creative project ( visual arts, narrative, film, photography, theatre), or an educational medical humanities or bioethics project to develop and teach a Medical Humanities seminar or elective with a faculty co-teacher during fourth year. Students select a supervisor for this project from the Medical Humanities and Ethics faculty or other faculty approved by the Pathway Director.
Attendance at Medical Humanities and/or Ethics events/activities
(8 – 10 events each year in Year 1 and Year 2; 8 – 10 events total in Years 3 and 4)
Wednesday Noon Rounds
- Medical Humanities Rounds (first Wed of each month)
- Interdisciplinary Ethics Rounds (second Wed of each month)
- Palliative Care Conference ( third Wed of each month)
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Conference (fourth Wed of each month)
- Schwartz Center Rounds
Special Interest Groups
- Bioethics Journal Club
- Literature and Medicine Reading Group
- Corner Society for the History of Medicine
- Reader’s Theatre Group
- Turtlequill literary arts journal – two readings (Sept. and May)
Annual Grand Rounds Presentations
- Nationally recognized invited speaker (October each year)
Events in Rochester that integrate humanities and healthcare
- Films, musical presentations, theatrical productions, readings
