Our country is experiencing a health care provider shortage; this is especially evident in rural Illinois. The majority of our state’s doctors will retire in the next two decades and it takes approximately 12-16 years to produce one doctor. The answer is clear: We need your support to make sure we are sufficiently preparing physicians and health care professionals to meet the demands of our citizens today and tomorrow. Visit our giving page to donate to any of our funds. Student Scholarships The cost of tuition at SIU School of Medicine remains one of the most affordable among public

Medical Humanitites offers a wide range of non-clinical areas of study. New subjects are added often as medicine and societal roles change and adapt to current conditions. Below are some of the topics and areas of interest covered in Medical Humanities: Adolescent Medicine Alternative Therapy Brain Death - PVS Burn Out Clinical Decision Making Communication Community Health Compassion Conscientious Objection Cost-Containment Death-Dying Dialysis Disaster Preparation Disclosure Discrimination Domestic Violence Education - Academic Medicine Empathy End-of-Life Care Environmental Health Ethics ER

The Department of Medical Humanities offers a curriculum designed to provide students with a core knowledge in the humanities, emphasizing application of the content and methodologies of humanities disciplines to the practice of medicine. Department faculty provide educational experiences for undergraduate medical students during Years 1 and 2. During Year 3, the Department delivers a one-week curricular clerkship, entitled "The Physician-Patient Relationship," as well as multiple integrated modules and learning experiences that form part of the clinical clerkships. During Year 4, a second one

Medical Humanities Publications Publications 2016 Publications Spielman, B, "What is the Impact of Bioethics on Clinical Trials? " Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology (2016, forthcoming) Christine Gorka, Jana Craig, and Bethany Spielman, "Growing an Ethics Consultation Service: Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Practice," accepted AJOB Empirical Ethics (forthcoming, 2016) Spielman, B, "Gender and Race in the Timing of Requests for Ethics Consultations: a Single Center Study" (submitted, Journal of Clinical Ethics ) Todd, C, "He Says You Are Finished." On Being A Doctor, Annals of Internal

Medical Humanities hosts several visiting lecturers every year: Pearson Lecture: The lecture and museum are named in honor of Dr. Emmet F. Pearson, a Springfield physician who was also a professor emeritus in the internal medicine and medical humanities departments at SIU. He died in June 1996. Theodore R. LeBlang Distinguished Lectureship in Law and Medicine: Professor Theodore LeBlang was the mainstay of the Law and Medicine teaching program for every class of students who have graduated from the school since its inception in 1975. He retired in 2006.

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