title: The medical humanities and the perils of curricular integration.
abstract: The advent of integration as a feature of contemporary medical curricula can be seen as an advantage for the medical humanities in that it provides a clear implementation strategy for the inclusion of medical humanities content and/or perspectives, while also making its relevance to medical education more apparent. This paper discusses an example of integration of humanities content into a graduate medical course, raises questions about the desirability of an exclusively integrated approach, and argues for the value of retaining a discrete and coherent disciplinary presence for the medical humanities in medical curricula.
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. n.chiavaroli@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Neville
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chiavaroli
authors.forename: Constance
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ellwood
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000639:trends*; D006809:Humanities / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies / Q000639:trends*