Article ID: CBB555404280

Making the Case for History in Medical Education (2015)

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Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent obstacles, from limited resources to curricular time constraints and skepticism about whether history actually is essential for physicians. Recent proposals have suggested that history should ally itself with the other medical humanities and make the case that together they can foster medical professionalism. We articulate a different approach and make the case for history as an essential component of medical knowledge, reasoning, and practice. History offers essential insights about the causes of disease (e.g., the non-reductionistic mechanisms needed to account for changes in the burden of disease over time), the nature of efficacy (e.g., why doctors think that their treatments work, and how have their assessments changed over time), and the contingency of medical knowledge and practice amid the social, economic, and political contexts of medicine. These are all things that physicians must know in order to be effective diagnosticians and caregivers, just as they must learn anatomy or pathophysiology. The specific arguments we make can be fit, as needed, into the prevailing language of competencies in medical education.

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Authors & Contributors
Iorio, Silvia
Campaner, Raffaella
Boniolo, Giovanni
Licia Montagna
Tafuri, Domenico
Miner, Skye A.
Concepts
Medical education and teaching
Medicine
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Teaching history of medicine
Medicine and society
Societies; institutions; academies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Australia
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Michigan (U.S.)
Netherlands
North America
Institutions
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Melbourne
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