Education

Course initiatives for professional education

Competence development for the healthcare sector

Afternoon Tea - a way to bring educational staff together

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. The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities regularly hosts "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

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)

Other course initiatives for professional education

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

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

A pilot project led to an ongoing collaboration with teachers in the Occupational Therapy Programme. Here, we have, among other things, used film in the teaching with the aim of deepening the students' perspectives on health. "Occupational therapy is about creating the conditions for people to be active and participate in society. For us occupational therapists, health is something more than just the absence of illness, which we discuss a lot with our students..." writes Marianne Kylberg, who teaches at the occupational therapy programme.

Another pilot project has been carried out at the Speech Pathology and Audiology Programme.

More about the pilot project in the occupational therapy programme in our blog (in Swedish)

New course 2025: Art as Care

We live in times of great challenges – medical humanities, with important practical applications at all levels of healthcare, has gone from nice-to-have to need-to-have.

A broadening of the academic perspectives and a deepening of relational competence are necessary for the daily operations of health and medical care and long-term sustainability. It is about the well-being of patients and the resilience of staff. 

The course at the Faculty of Medicine and is given in collaboration between the Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities and the Grace and Philip Sandblom Foundation. The couse also includes a valuble cooperation with "artist in residence" Frantiček Klossner from Switzerland. 

Ny kurs HT25: Konst som vård (Sök senast 15/4) | Intramed(in Swedish)

Competence development for healthcare

We offer 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 affiliated staff work in or very closely with healthcare organisations.

Information about our competence development for healthcare

Other education initiavites related to medical humanities that our affiliated staff members are involved in:

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