History of Medicine
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
Appreciate a historical perspective for understanding medicine and its relationship to technology, medical education, and the relationship of body to mind; Gain an understanding of how society has viewed and reacted to doctors and medical practice; Learn how medicine has intersected with the law to define the human being; Consider how different theories of the body have produced particular medical procedures, approaches to patients, criminal punishment, and medical ethics.
Curriculum Block
Part 1 / Professional Competencies 1 / Week 3
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Objectives
General Objectives
Assessments
PC Interim Student Assessment
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Integrative Exercise
Tags
Curriculum Block
Part 1
Professional Competencies 1
Week 3
Curriculum Week
Part 1
Week 3
McMaster Professional Competency
Medical Decision Making
Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgement
Social, Cultural and Humanistic Dimensions of Health
McMaster Program Competencies
2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of what knowledge is, the strengths and limitations of different ways of knowing, and how knowledge is created in historical, cultural and social contexts.
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
2.6 Understand the process of the dissemination, application, and translation of new health knowledges and practices.
6.99 Other systems-based practice
MeSH
Ethics, Medical [K01.752.566.479.171.132.750]
History of Medicine [K01.400.552]
Humanities [K01]
Social Sciences [I01]
Professional Competency
Yes
