Fried Colleen, Madar Sandra, Donley Carol
Biomedical Humanities, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio 44234, USA.
Acad Med. 2003 Oct;78(10):993-6. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200310000-00010.
The Biomedical Humanities program at Hiram College, established in 1999, engages premedical and other qualified students in ethical and informed decision making, improves their ability to interact with persons of different backgrounds and cultures, provides them an active introduction to basic medical research and clinical practice, and coaches them in communicating across barriers, appreciating that scientists and humanists typically learn and work differently. The program offers both a major and a minor in biomedical humanities topics. The major requires the core biology and chemistry curriculum necessary for further studies in medicine as well as courses in genetics and statistics. The remainder of the major is devoted to four core areas: Communications, Relationships and Cultural Sensitivity, Ethics and Medical Humanities, and a nonacademic core area, Experiential Learning. Many of the ethics and medical humanities options are team-taught interdisciplinary courses. The Experiential Learning area requires students to take two special topics seminars, two service seminars, and two internships-one shadowing a professional in his or her area of interest and one engaging in basic biomedical research. The shadowing internship and service seminars focus not only on career exploration, but also on human interactions. Students reflect on the personal interactions they observe during their various experiences, and on their own strengths and weaknesses. Essays, designed to help students learn more about their roles in these settings, push them to deal with the sociopolitical issues involved in their service. The major, a robust and vital component of Hiram's undergraduate program, has attracted academically gifted students with a diverse array of career goals.
海拉姆学院的生物医学人文学科项目成立于1999年，让医学预科生和其他合格学生参与到符合伦理且明智的决策过程中，提高他们与不同背景和文化的人互动的能力，引导他们积极了解基础医学研究和临床实践，并指导他们跨越障碍进行沟通，因为深知科学家和人文学者的学习和工作方式通常有所不同。该项目提供生物医学人文学科主题的主修和辅修课程。主修课程要求具备医学深造所需的核心生物学和化学课程以及遗传学和统计学课程。主修课程的其余部分专注于四个核心领域：沟通、人际关系与文化敏感度、伦理与医学人文学科，以及一个非学术核心领域——体验式学习。许多伦理与医学人文学科课程选项都是由团队授课的跨学科课程。体验式学习领域要求学生参加两门专题研讨会、两门服务研讨会和两次实习——一次跟随感兴趣领域的专业人士见习，一次参与基础生物医学研究。见习实习和服务研讨会不仅关注职业探索，还关注人际互动。学生反思他们在各种经历中观察到的人际互动以及自身的优点和不足。旨在帮助学生更多地了解他们在这些环境中角色的论文促使他们应对服务中涉及的社会政治问题。该主修课程是海拉姆本科项目中一个强大且重要的组成部分，吸引了有着各种职业目标的学业优秀的学生。
