Frontiers in Educational Research, 2025, 8(2); doi: 10.25236/FER.2025.080201.
Qin Li1,2, Xue Li2
1Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311399, China
2Gachon University, Seongnam, 13120, Korea
The development of medical humanities education in different types of Chinese colleges and universities is unbalanced due to their different histories and backgrounds, and the medical humanities curriculum plays a key role in the process of medical humanities education. This paper analyzes the talent cultivation programs of clinical medicine majors in Chinese comprehensive universities, medical specialized colleges and higher vocational colleges and universities, takes the cultivation objectives and curriculum settings as the core, conducts a comprehensive analysis and comparative study on the cultivation objectives, the number of curricula, the curriculum module settings, etc., puts forward the reasons for the differences in the curriculum settings of medical humanities in different types of colleges and universities and proposes the path of optimization. The curriculum is used as an entry point to solve the problem and promote the balanced and synergistic development of medical humanities education in different types of universities in China.
Medical humanities education; talent training program; curriculum
Qin Li, Xue Li. Current situation and optimization path of medical humanities curriculum in different types of Chinese colleges and universities. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025) Vol. 8, Issue 2: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080201.
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