Welcome
The Department of Medical Humanities at SIU School of Medicine is proud to offer a clerkship for medical students. This program helps students gain a deeper understanding of complex elements of the human condition, including illness, suffering and belief systems.
Our goal is to help doctors-in-training gain deeper insights into their own assumptions, beliefs and perspectives so they can hone their empathetic as well as medical expertise, thus creating more effective patient/provider relationships.
To do this, we draw from the wisdom and data of humanities fields such as philosophy, religion, anthropology, sociology and the arts. This knowledge is then incorporated into a comprehensive curriculum that will influence and enhance the humanistic awareness of a future generation of health care providers.
