Am J Pharm Educ. 2020 Apr;84(4):7636. doi: 10.5688/ajpe7636.
I argue that the humanities have an important role in pharmacy education. I came to this view after believing the humanities to be useless and superfluous when I was in pharmacy school and during the earlier phases of my career. I eventually learned that the humanities can teach us a lot that the biomedical sciences can not, and that the humanities can expand on a lot of what the biomedical sciences do teach us. My argument derives from a model that makes a distinction between the disease and illness components of health problems, which makes it possible to see how biomedical sciences focus on disease and how the humanities focus on illness. Because medical schools have adopted the humanities into their education and training programs, I also argue that pharmacists will need a similar grounding if they are to collaborate with physicians on the same terms.
我认为人文学科在药学教育中具有重要作用。在我上药学学校和职业生涯早期阶段，我曾认为人文学科毫无用处且多余，后来我有了这样的观点。我最终了解到人文学科可以教给我们许多生物医学科学无法教授的东西，而且人文学科可以扩展生物医学科学所教给我们的很多内容。我的论点源自一种区分健康问题的疾病和病患成分的模型，这使得我们可以看到生物医学科学如何关注疾病，以及人文学科如何关注病患。由于医学院已经将人文学科纳入其教育和培训计划，我还认为，如果药剂师要与医生在同等条件下进行合作，他们也需要类似的基础。
