Teagarden J Russell
Medical & Scientific Affairs, National Organization for Rare Disorders, 55 Kenosia Avenue, Danbury, CT, 06810, USA,
J Med Humanit. 2013 Dec;34(4):477-80. doi: 10.1007/s10912-013-9249-1.
Traditional pharmacy education emphasizes the biological processes of diseases and their pharmacological treatments. While the intense focus on biomedical aspects of disease is vital to educating pharmacy students, this focus is often insufficient in conveying what patients experience. The humanities, however, offer powerful characterizations of the disease experience for individuals as well as its impact on the human condition more generally. In this essay, I describe how using literary texts with pharmacy students provides them with a fuller appreciation of what patients face with their diseases. The goal of this endeavor is to make students more effective as pharmacists in detecting and responding to their patients' problems and needs by connecting their biomedical knowledge to depictions and meanings of illness experiences.
传统药学教育强调疾病的生物学过程及其药物治疗方法。虽然对疾病生物医学方面的高度关注对于培养药学专业学生至关重要，但这种关注往往不足以传达患者的经历。然而，人文学科能够有力地描述个体的疾病体验以及它对人类状况更广泛的影响。在本文中，我描述了如何与药学专业学生一起使用文学文本，使他们更全面地理解患者所面临的疾病。这项努力的目标是通过将他们的生物医学知识与疾病经历的描述和意义联系起来，让学生成为更有效的药剂师，以发现并回应患者的问题和需求。
