Course initiatives for professional education

Competence development for the healthcare sector

Medical humanities in the medical programme

Since 2008, medical humanities has been included as an elective course at the medical programme at Lund University and as course elements and seminars in semesters 4, 6, 8 and 9. Medical students also have the opportunity to write essays and degree projects in medical humanities in semesters 5 and 10.

The medical programme (and our educational initiatives) are given in Swedish and information about both the course and the programme is only available in Swedish.

Information about the medical programme at Lund University (in Swedish)

Course initiatives for professional education

At Lund University, there are several professional educations related to medicine, health and nursing. We want to contribute to the professional educations showing them what medical humanities can offer pedagogically. In late autumn 2022, the Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities started "Afternoon Tea gatherings” for everyone who works with professional education in the human care professions, and who is interested in using medical humanities in teaching. Do you want to be on the invitation list to our next Afternoon Tea gathering? Email Asa [dot] Thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

Recurring course elements based on comparative literature are included in the Psychology programme at Lund University. The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities has also developed a pilot course module in conversation analysis at the Psychology Programme's semester 1.

Information about the psychology programme at Lund University (in Swedish)

Other courses related to medical humanities that our staff are involved in:

• The history of ideas of medicine (in Swedish)
• Literary perspectives on illness and death (in Swedish)
• The aesthetics of the crisis (in Swedish)

Competence development for healthcare

The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities offers new perspectives and educational tools that can be of crucial importance for competence development in healthcare. We have a unique opportunity to contribute to high quality in training efforts for professionals, partly because we have relevant research literally at our doorstep and partly because several of our staff work in or very closely with healthcare organisations.

Information about our competence development efforts for healthcare