The Program in Humanities fosters and sustains the humanistic impulses that draw students, residents, and faculty to medicine and that enrich the practice of medicine. We have three goals:

  • to demonstrate and investigate new ways of teaching the human, social, and cultural dimensions of illness, health, and health care
  • to provide programs that lead to professional development and personal renewal; and
  • to make the humanities and arts a significant presence within the academic medical community.


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The Programs for Humanities also produces The Medical Center Hour, a weekly multidisciplinary conference founded in 1971 and open to the entire University community and the public. The Medical Center Hour explores current, often controversial topics in ethics, law, culture, public policy, religion and spirituality, science research, and the arts as these topics relate to health.


Veritas
Students' literary arts magazine
2006 ι 2005 ι 2004 issues


Spirituality and Medicine Curriculum Project