S Afr Med J. 2014 Feb;104(2):109-10.
A new masters-level course, 'Medicine and the Arts" will be offered in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, setting a precedent for interdisciplinary education in the field of medical humanities in South Africa. The humanities and social sciences have always been an implicit part of undergraduate and postgraduate education in the health sciences, but increasingly they are becoming an explicit and essential component of the curriculum, as the importance of graduate attributes and outcomes in the workplace is acknowledged. Traditionally, the medical humanities have included medical ethics, history, literature and anthropology. Less prominent in the literature has been the engagement with medicine of the disciplines of sociology, politics, philosophy, linguistics, education, and law, as well as the creative and expressive arts. The development of the medical humanities in education and research in South Africa is set to expand over the next few years, and it looks as if it will be an exciting inter-disciplinary journey.
2014 年，开普敦大学将开设一门新的硕士课程，“医学与艺术”，为南非医学人文学科的跨学科教育开创先例。人文学科和社会科学一直是健康科学本科和研究生教育的隐含部分，但随着人们越来越认识到毕业生在职场中的素质和成果的重要性，它们正逐渐成为课程的明确和必要组成部分。传统上，医学人文学科包括医学伦理、历史、文学和人类学。在文献中不太突出的是社会学、政治学、哲学、语言学、教育学和法律等学科与医学的结合，以及创造性和表现力艺术。在未来几年，南非的医学人文学科在教育和研究方面的发展将扩大，这似乎将是一场令人兴奋的跨学科之旅。
