Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, address the following:

• What is the value of studying the humanities in the field of health professions?
• How might a topic such as art, literature, music, dance, etc. from other time periods enhance your career and personal life in the present?
• Select one aspect of the humanities that is meaningful to your personal life and one for career. Explain how is each meaningful.
• In addition, include a specific example of a work (a specific work of art, literature, theater, or music) that you feel is meaningful to your personal life and/or career. Explain the connection.

SOLUTION

Humanities became of interest in the health care sciences, in the U.S in the 1960s once the General Medical Council (GMC) acknowledged necessary changes in the curriculum giving importance to instruction in humanities, along with medical training. The main three reasons for these changes are based on the importance that reading patients stories/experiences can help health care students develop an understanding of their patients, literature can further improve the capacity of students to see their own.…….Please click the icon below to access the entire solution at $5