title: Medical education, irrelevancy and the humanities.
abstract: The author reviews the criticism aimed at medical education and suggests that its shortcomings could be corrected by modifying the curriculum so that irrelevant material is eliminated and replaced in part with the humanities.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans