Section Name Description
Module1: Lesson 1: The Emergence of Modern Medicine URL Innovation Through Tradition: Rediscovering the “Humanist” in the Medical Humanities

Read the content under the headings "Introduction: origin narratives of the medical humanities", "The studia humanitatis and the crisis of American medicine", and "Conclusion: innovation through tradition". (49 minutes)

J Med Humanit - 2016

URL How Clinicians Integrate Humanism in their Clinical Workplace—‘Just Trying to Put Myself in their Human Being Shoes’

Read the content under the headings Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion. (9 minutes)

Perspectives on Medical Education - 2018

Module 2: Lesson 1:The Epidemiological Transition URL The Epidemiological Transition (or What We Died, Die and Will Die From)

Read the entire article. (8 minutes)

IS Global: Barcelona Insitute for Public Health - 2017

URL Updating the Epidemiological Transition Model

Read the following sections: Introduction, Development of models with stages of transition, and Divergence from the western transition model. (18 minutes)

Epidemiology and Infection - 2018

Module 2: Lesson 2: The Impact of the Epidemiological Transition on Humanism in Health and Healthcare URL Addressing Challenges in Humanistic Communication During COVID-19 Through Medical Education

Read the content under the following sections: Introduction, Humanism in Medical Education and Practice, and Discussion. (14 minutes)

Frontiers - 2021

URL The End of Modern Medicine: The Evolution of Disease and Transformations in Medical Practice

Please read the entire article. (34 minutes)

Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities - 2012

Module 3: Lesson 1: Medicalization and Social Control URL Medicalization Defined in Empirical Contexts – A Scoping Review

Read the content under the following sections: Background, Results, and Discussion. (23 minutes)

International Journal of Health Policy and Management - 2020

URL Medicalization: A Historical Perspective

Read the entire article. (20 minutes)

Journal of General and Family Medicine - 2017

Module 3: Lesson 2: Medicalization and Overdiagnosis URL Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine

Read the content under the headings, from "Introduction" to "The Dual Relationship Between Overdiagnosis and Medicalisation." (17 minutes)

Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management - 2016

URL How to Distinguish Medicalization from Over-medicalization?

Read the content under the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Various effects of medicalization and over‑medicalization, and Over‑medicalization: a pragmatic approach. (10 minutes)

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - 2018

Module 4: Lesson 1: An Overview of the Biopsychosocial Model URL The New Old (and Old New) Medical Model: Four Decades Navigating the Biomedical and Psychosocial Understandings of Health and Illness

Read the entire article from "Abstract" to "A Question of Method and Discipline: The Future of the Biopsychosocial Model through the Lens of Adolescence Medicine." (24 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2017

URL The Biopsychosocial Model and the New Medical Humanism

Read the content under the headings from "1. Engel’s biopsychosocial model" until " Updating the science and philosophy of the BPSM." (27 minutes)

Archives de Philosophie Volume 83 Issue 4 - 2020

Module 5: Lesson 1: The Historical Evolution of Bioethics URL The Rise of Bioethics: A Historical Overview

Read the entire webpage. (27 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2018

Module 5: Lesson 2: Clinical Ethics Analysis URL Jonsen’s Four Topics Approach as a Framework for Clinical Ethics Consultation

Read the content under the headings "Abstract", "Introduction","Results" "Discussion", and "Conclusion." (37 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2018

Module 6: Lesson 1: The Science of Empathy URL Empathy, sympathy and compassion in healthcare: Is there a problem? Is there a difference? Does it matter?

Read the entire article. (24 minutes)

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - 2020

URL The Science of Empathy

Read the entire article. (14 minutes)

Journal of Patient Experience - 2017

Module 6: Lesson 2: Empathy in Patient Care URL The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals

Read the entire article. (22 minutes)

Healthcare Journal - 2020

Module 7: Lesson 1: Working with literature URL Three Things to Do With Stories Using Literature in Medical, Health Professions, and Interprofessional Education

Read the entire article. (28 minutes)

Academic Medicine - 2015

Module 7: Lesson 2: Working with Visual Art URL How Art Can Heal

Read the entire article. (17 minutes)

American Scientist - 2020

URL The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature

Read the content under the heading "Visual Arts". (11 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2010

Module 7: Lesson 3: Working with Poetry URL More Than Words: Why Poetry is Good for Our Health

Read the entire web page and watch the Youtube video titled "Capturing Our Resilience in Poetry". (12 minutes)

International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab) - 2022

URL National Poetry Month: Poetry and Medicine

Read the content under the headings from "Section One: The Expanding Awareness of Music in Healthcare," "Section Three: The Potential and Path to the Future of Music in Healthcare," and "Recommendations and Conclusions". (6 minutes)

Unversity of St. Augustine for Health Sciences - 2022

Module 7: Lesson 4: Working with Music URL The Expanding Scope, Inclusivity, and Integration of Music in Healthcare: Recent Developments, Research Illustration, and Future Direction

Read the content under the headings from "Section One: The Expanding Awareness of Music in Healthcare," "Section Three: The Potential and Path to the Future of Music in Healthcare," and "Recommendations and Conclusions". (36 minutes)

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)- Healthcare Journal - 2021

URL Music, Computing, and Health: A Roadmap for the Current and Future Roles of Music Technology for Health Care and Well-Being
Read the content under the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, and Various Use Cases of Music Technology in Health Settings. (96 minutes)
SAGE journals - 2021
Module 8: Lesson 1: Narrative Medicine: Connecting with Patients URL Role of narrative-based medicine in proper patient assessment

Read the entire article. (13 minutes)

2017

URL What is Narrative Based Medicine

Read the entire article (Content in English only). (17 minutes)

Canadian Family Physician - 2018

URL Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’

Read the entire article. (57 minutes)

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - 2021

Module 9: Lesson 1: Understanding Burnout in Healthcare: Causes and Consequences URL Burnout in Healthcare Workers: Prevalence, Impact and Preventative Strategies.

Read the entire article. (29 minutes)

Dove Press journal: Local and Regional Anesthesia - 2020

URL Burnout in United States Healthcare Professionals: A Narrative Review

Read the entire article. (20 minutes)

Cureus - 2018

Module 9: Lesson 2: Self-care and Patient Care URL Developing resilience to combat nurse burnout

Read the entire article - 13 minutes

The Joint Commission - 2019

URL Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review:

Read the entire article - 20 minutes

Behavioural Sciences Journal - 2018

URL Effect of burnout among physicians on observed adverse patient outcomes: a literature review.

Read the entire article. (29 minutes)

BMC Health Serv - 2021

Module 9: Lesson 3: Empathy and Self-care at Odds?: Thinking Realistically and Critically URL Empathy and Burnout in Medicine: Acknowledging Risks and Opportunities

Read the entire article. (10 minutes)

Springer - 2018

URL "Goodbye … Through a Glass Door"Emotional Experiences of Working in COVID-19 Acute Care Hospital Environments.

Read the content under the headings " Background and Purpose", "Discussion", "Implications,". (14 minutes)

SAGE Journals- Canadian Journal of Nursing Research - 2021

URL Compassion and self-compassion in medicine: Self-care for the caregiver

Read the entire article. (16 minutes)

Australian Medical Journal - 2016

Module 10: Lesson 1: Problematics of Otherness URL Ethics Explainer: The Other

Read the entire webpage. (8 minutes)

The Bioethics Centre - 2017

URL Othering in the Nursing Context: A Concept Analysis

Read the content from "Inclusionary concepts" until "Alternatives to othering". (26 minutes)

College of Nursing - 2017

Module 11: Lesson 1: Global Health and Cross-Cultural Practice URL Virtue and Care Ethics & Humanism in Medical Education: a Scoping Review

Read the contents under the heading "Background, Results, and Discussion". (7 minutes)

BMC Medical Education - 2022

URL More Harm Than Good? The Questionable Ethics of Medical Volunteering and International Student Placements

Read the content from "Ethical Concerns in Medical Volunteering" until "Evaluating the outcome of medical volunteering on local health" (36 minutes)

Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, published by BioMed Central - 2017

URL Medical “Brain Drain” and Health Care Worker Shortages: How Should International Training Programs Respond?

Read the content under the heading from "Medical Brain Drain as Exploitation of Wealth Disparities" until "Funding and Policy Solutions to Medical Brain Drain" (12 minutes)

AMA Journal of Ethics - 2016

Module 11: Lesson 2: Issues of Class and Poverty URL Explaining Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviours: A Review of Biopsychological Pathways Involving Stress and Inflammation

Read the following sections "2.1. Social inequality in health" "2.2. Social inequality in stress" "2.3. Social inequality in health behaviours,"'5.2. Different SES indicators may reflect different types of resources and adversities which may tap into different causal explanations of health behaviours" (31 minutes)

Science Direct- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews - 2021

Module 11: Lesson 3: Race/Ethnictiy and Health URL Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research

Read the following sections: Abstract, Racism and Health, Racial Residential Segregation, Epidemiological Evidence Linking Segregation to Health, Cultural Racism, Cultural Racism and Health and Discrimination. (23 minutes)

National Library of Medicine: National Centre for Biotechnology Information - 2019

URL Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care

Read from the Introduction to Conclusion. (29 minutes)

The Commonwealth Fund - 2021

URL Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation and Outcomes for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: Findings From the American Heart Association’s COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry

Please read Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion. (11 minutes)

AHA Journals - 2020

Module 11: Lesson 4: The Health of Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons URL Access to Health Care for Illegal Migrants: Ethical Implications of a New Health Policy in the UK

Read the entire article. (9 minutes)

British Journal of General Practice - 2019

URL Barriers to Accessing Health Care Among Undocumented Migrants in Sweden - a Principal Component Analysis

Read the content under the heading "Background", "Barriers to health care", "Large need for health care and risk factors for illness" and "Discussion". (17 minutes)

BMC Health Services Research - 2021

URL Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health

Read the entire article. (4 minutes)

Annual Review of Public Health - 2015

Module 11: Lesson 5: Gender and Health URL Gender Disparities in Clinical Practice: Are There Any Solutions? Scoping Review of Interventions to Overcome or Reduce Gender Bias in Clinical Practice (2020)

Read from the Introduction to Conclusion. (22 minutes)

International Journal for Equity in Health - 2020

URL The Promises and Limitations of Gender-Transformative Health Programming with Men: Critical Reflections from the Field

Read the entire article. (47 minutes)

Informa UK Limited, Taylor & Francis Group - 2015

Module 11: Lesson 6: LGBTQ+ Persons and Health URL Understanding the Health Needs of LGBT People

Read the report. (28 minutes)

National LGBT Health Education Center, A project of the Fenway Institute - 2016

URL Health Inequities in LGBT People and Nursing Interventions to Reduce Them: A Systematic Review (2021)

Read the Introduction and Discussion. (23 minutes)

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - 2021

Module 11: Lesson 7: Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Persons URL Caring for Ex-prisoners Presents Management Challenges

Read the entire article. (12 minutes)

ACP Internist and American College of Physicians - 2017

URL What Does Health Justice Look Like for People Returning from Incarceration?

Read the content under the headings "Incarceration and Health in the United States" Assessing the Needs of All Persons and Populations Equally", "Recognize and Rectify Historical Health System Injustices, Advocate for the Provision of Resources According to Patient and Community Needs", "Conclusion" (11 minutes)

American Medical Association - 2017

URL Assessing Incarcerated Women’s Physical and Mental Health Status and Needs in a Swiss Prison: a Cross-Sectional Study

Read the Background, Discussion, and Conclusion. (22 minutes)

Health and Justice Journal - Biomedcentral.com - 2022

URL "Who Should Make Decisions for Unrepresented Patients Who Are Incarcerated? "

Read the entire article. (15 minutes)

AMA Journal of Ethics - 2019

URL Linkages Between Health and Incarceration

Read the entire article. (24 minutes)

Sage, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health - 2019

URL Do Prisoners Trust the Healthcare System?

Read the Background, Discussion, Limitations, and Conclusion. (17 minutes)

Health and Justice Journal -Biomedcentral.com - 20221

Module 11: Lesson 8: Disability, Health, and Healthcare URL Disability: Definitions, Models, Experience

Read the content under the headings from "1. Models of Disability" until "1.3 Models, Decisions, and Policies". (18 minutes)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 2022

URL Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability

Read the entire article. (13 minutes)

AMA Journal of Ethics: Illuminating the Art of Medicine - 2018

URL Prevalence of Disabilities and Health Care Access by Disability Status and Type Among Adults — United States, 2016

Read the entire report. (13 minutes)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 2016

Module 11: Lesson 9: Health, Humanism, and Aging URL Ageism in the Health Care System: Providers, Patients, and Systems

Read the content under the headings, from " Introduction" until "13.2.4 Self-Ageism in the Health Care Setting". (28 minutes)

Springer Link: International Perspectives on Aging Book - 2018

URL Inequalities in Later Life: The Issue and the Implications for Policy and Practice

Read the report. (18 minutes)

Centre for Ageing Better - 2017

URL “Tho’ Much is Taken, Much Abides”: A Good Life Within Dementia

Read the entire article. (21 minutes)

Wiley Online Library- The Hastings Center Report - 2018

Module 11: Lesson 10: Children, Health, and Humanism URL Connecting a Sociology of Childhood Perspective with the Study of Child Health, Illness and Wellbeing: Introduction

Read the content under the headings "Abstract", "Themes of this issue" "Theme 2: practices of children's health and wellbeing", "Theme 3 – Children as health actors". (23 minutes)

Wiley Online Library- Sociology of Health and Illness Journal - 2015

URL Minimizing Pediatric Healthcare-Induced Anxiety and Trauma

Read the content from "Introduction" to " A new way to care". (18 minutes)

World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics- NCBI - 2016

Module 11: Lesson 11: Religion/Spirituality and Health URL How Should Clinicians Respond to Requests from Patients to Participate in Prayer?

Read the webpage. (16 minutes)

AMA Journal of Ethics - 2018

URL Defining Spirituality in Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework

Read the content under the headings " Introduction" Connection: Narrower or Broader, Interpretation of Life: Meaning and Purpose, Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences, Spirituality Sensations, Spirituality as an Intrinsic Component of Human Beings and Proposed Framework for Spirituality in Healthcare. (22 minutes)

Fronteirs in Psychology - 2021

URL The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Integrative Review of the Scientific Literature

Read the content under the headings "Abstract", "Background" and "Discussion" (12 minutes)

Springer Nature Switzerland - Journal of Religion and Health - 2022

Module 12: Lesson 1: From cultural competence to cultural humility URL Cultural Competency Interventions During Medical School: a Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis

Read the Abstract, Introduction, Discussion, Conclusion. (8 minutes)

Springer Link - Journal of General Internal Medicine - 2019

URL Addressing Culture Within Healthcare Settings: The Limits of Cultural Competence and the Power of humility"

Read the entire article. (10 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health - 2019

Module 12: Lesson 2: Practices of Humility in Healthcare URL Practicing Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in the Care of Diverse Patients

Read the entire article. (11 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health - 2020

URL Not Missing the Opportunity: Strategies to Promote Cultural Humility Among Future Nursing Faculty

Read the entire article. (31 minutes)

Science Direct - Journal of Professional Nursing - 2020

Module 12: Lesson 3: From Cultural Humility to Structural Competency and Social Justice URL Structural Competency in Health Care

Read the contents under the headings "Introduction", "Individual Level: Self-Reflection and Awareness", "Interpersonal Level: Patient Assessment and Care Planning", "Clinic/Institutional Level: Diverse Hiring and Staff Training", "Community Level: Collaboration", and "Summary". (13 minutes)

PMC - 2022

Module 13: Lesson 1: The Future of Humanism in Medicine URL Humanism increasingly important in a changing health care landscape

Read the entire article. (8 minutes)

American Association of Medical Colleges - 2017

URL Is Medical Humanism a Humanism?

Read the entire article. (13minutes)

In-Training.org - 2016

Module 13: Lesson 2: Humanism and Technology: Threat or Opportunity URL The Digital Transformation of Medicine Can Revitalize the Patient-Clinician Relationship

Read the entire article. (12 minutes)

Springer Nature Limited - 2018

URL Pursuing Humanistic Medicine in a Technological Age

Read the entire article. (16 minutes)

Journal of Patient Experiences - 2017

Module 13: Lesson 3: Directions Forward URL Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup

Read the articles related to humanism in healthcare. (16 minutes)

Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare - 2022

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