Tang Wei
Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.
Biosci Trends. 2017 May 23;11(2):125-127. doi: 10.5582/bst.2017.01102. Epub 2017 Apr 30.
Advances in the study of the medical humanities and medical humanities education have been made over the past few decades. Many influential journals have published articles examining the role of medical humanities and medical humanities education, the development and evaluation of medical humanities, and the design of a curriculum for medical humanities education in Western countries. However, most articles related to medical humanities in China were published in Chinese, moreover, researchers have worked in relative isolation and published in disparate journals, so their work has not been systematically presented to and evaluated by international readers. The six companion articles featured in this issue describe the current status and challenge of medical humanities and medical humanities education in China in the hope of providing international readers with a novel and meaningful glimpse into medical humanities in China. This Journal is calling for greater publication of research on medical humanities and medical humanities education to propel medical humanities in China.
在过去几十年里，医学人文和医学人文教育的研究取得了进展。许多有影响力的期刊发表了探讨医学人文和医学人文教育的作用、医学人文的发展与评估以及西方国家医学人文教育课程设计的文章。然而，中国大多数与医学人文相关的文章都是用中文发表的，此外，研究人员相对孤立地开展工作，在不同的期刊上发表文章，因此他们的工作尚未系统地呈现给国际读者并得到评估。本期特刊的六篇配套文章描述了中国医学人文和医学人文教育的现状与挑战，希望能让国际读者对中国的医学人文有全新且有意义的了解。本期刊呼吁更多地发表关于医学人文和医学人文教育的研究，以推动中国的医学人文发展。
