Anatomy Education in the Health Professions: Opportunities for Promoting Humanism

Alexandra Webb; Lillian Smyth; Krisztina Valter-Kocsi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1_60-1

Anatomy Education in the Health Professions: Opportunities for Promoting Humanism

Alexandra Webb^*, Lillian Smyth, Krisztina Valter-Kocsi

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School of Medicine and Psychology

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Humanism, a system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate, is at the core of healthcare (Thibault, 2019). Modern changes to curricula, teaching approaches, and medical practice itself threaten the humanistic practice of healthcare (Rider et al., 2018). One of the key challenges in contemporary healthcare education is in training humanistic and resilient health professionals, within the strictures of a densely packed degree program (Wald et al., 2015). Anatomy education and dissection-based teaching offers a key opportunity for scaffolding humanistic reflection and developing patient-centered...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities
Editors	Paul Crawford, Paul Kadetz
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-26825-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-26825-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1_60-1
Publication status	Published - 2026

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