Current situation and development of medical humanities education based on SWOT analysis / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

As an important aspect of medical education, medical humanities education should be carried out in accordance with current situation. In this paper, existing problems and opportunities for development of medical humanities education were analyzed with SWOT analysis on the basis of the current situation, and a series of suggestions and countermeasures such as SO development strategy, WO striving strategy, ST expansion strategy and WT conservative strategy, were put forward. This paper applied SWOT analysis specifically for the study of management to analyze the current situation and existing problems in medical humanities education, and proposed measures including accelerating the construction of academic exchange platforms such as medical humanities journal, fully employing practical advantages of humanities education, strengthening the construction of its hidden curriculum as well as enhancing medical humanities education in clinical teaching, which are all useful countermeasures and suggestions for the development of medical humanities education.