Approaches to Humanistic Education for Medical Students

Humanistic quality can be divided into humanistic knowledge and humanistic spirit,and humanistic spirit is its nature.Essence of medicine is the respect for human care and the treasure for life and health.Medicine is both a science and a human study,so it requires both sci-tech progress and humanistic complement.Neither truth nor goodness is dispensable for medicine.Based on the analysis of the status quo of humanistic education in Chinese medical colleges,this paper makes a definition for medical humanistic education and summarizes the main approaches to it,including updating the educational philosophy,improving the curriculum system,extending teaching methods,strengthening the medical ethics education,enhancing the social awareness and stressing on the educational environment.The paper also points out that the humanistic spirit is often reflected through certain humanistic knowledge,but humanistic knowledge does not mean the same to humanistic spirit.The aim of medical humanistic education is to establish and strengthen humanistic beliefs,cultivate humanistic spirits,and improve medical humanistic quality of students through learning.