The exploration of medical humanities education from the humanities value and health service needs / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Medical science is both scientific and humanistic,and medical humanities education is an ever-lasting theme.To enhance residents'health,a new health service reform is being carried out by the government to promote the transformation towards the bio-psycho-social medical model.Social reality,mental environment and social factors have significant effects upon health.To impart medical humanities knowledge and cultivate quality of humanities are the missions of higher education.Based upon the practice of medical humanities education in Sun Yat-sen University and the experience of developed countries and regions,and by elaborating the theory to deepen understanding of medical humanities the author is to deal with the real needs and to enhance educational effectiveness of countermeasures.