Overview

This free online Medicine and the Arts - Humanising Healthcare at FutureLearn will explore the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology and the creative arts. Through each of its six weeks, we’ll visit a new aspect of human life and consider it from the perspectives of people working in health sciences, social sciences and the arts.

Explore the emerging field of medical humanities

The course will introduce you to the emerging field of medical humanities and the concept of whole person care, via these six themes:

The Heart of the Matter: A Matter of the Heart
Children’s Voices and Healing
Mind, Art and Play
Reproduction and Innovation
At the Edge: Madness and Medicine
Death and the Corpse

Programme Structure

Topics:

The medical humanities and interdisciplinarity

Different understandings of the human heart

Children’s experience of illness and healing

Relationships between the mind, art and play

Creativity and innovation in healthcare

Representations of mental illness

Medical, social and cultural understandings of death

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 42 days
- 3 hrs/week

Start dates & application deadlines

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Language

English

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Human Medicine Health Sciences Liberal Arts View 306 other Short Courses in Health Sciences in United Kingdom

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

This course is open to everyone. All that’s required is an interest in medicine, the arts or social sciences.

Tuition Fee

Funding

Studyportals Tip: Students can search online for independent or external scholarships that can help fund their studies. Check the scholarships to see whether you are eligible to apply. Many scholarships are either merit-based or needs-based.

Studyportals Scholarship Deadline: 30 June 2020

Apply and win up to €10000 to cover your tuition fees.