title: Medical humanities as tools for the teaching of patient-centered care.
abstract: The Institute of Medicine, in its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, highlighted patient-centered care as an area for the development of quality measures. Since then, medical centers across the country have incorporated patient-centered modalities in their healthcare delivery systems. In academic medical centers, interest in patient-centered care has raised the awareness of the interactions between the humanities and medicine. This work aims to define the roles of patient-centered medicine and the medical humanities in the academic medical environment, to establish the shared values between the medical humanities and patient-centered care, and to demonstrate how the medical humanities can be a tool for the teaching of patient-centered care.
authors.affiliation: Section of Inpatient Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. rj.nazario@uky.edu
authors.forename: Rubén J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Nazario
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006809:Humanities / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends