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Klugman, Craig M.
Bracken, Rachel Conrad
Weatherston, Rosemary I.
Konefal, Catherine Burns
Berry, Sarah L.
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Accepted: 14 August 2021
First Online: 16 September 2021
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: All authors are members of the Health Humanities Consortium’s Curriculum and Assessment Working Group. Berry is currently co-chair of the HHC and Klugman is former founding co-chair.
: This study was declared exempt by the DePaul University Institutional Review Board in March 2021.
: <sup>1</sup> Nomenclature has been a subject of debate among medical/health humanities scholars in recent years; see, for example, Viney et al. (2015); Jones et al. (2017); Crawford et al. (2010). Throughout this essay, we use the designator “medical/health humanities” to be inclusive of the wide range of programs that fit this description and because this terminology directly aligns with the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code established for medical and health humanities academic programs by the National Center for Educational Statistics.<sup>2</sup> Baccalaureate certificate programs did not include many of the steps in their responses. Only twenty-five programs expressed an interest in continuing education on program development. Of those, six wanted a session at the annual Health Humanities Consortium meeting, fifteen desired a webinar, and four were interested in bringing a speaker or consultant to their campus.<sup>3</sup> See Klugman, whose argument that the health humanities as a field poised to save—or, at the least, reinvigorate—the humanities in higher education “in a time of anti-humanities fervor” is threefold: “Health humanities can (1) model an applied approach for humanities disciplines that inspires student interest; (2) develop students’ capacity for critical reading, writing and reflection about health and medicine in society, practice, and their own lives; (3) and inoculate all students against the influence of medicine, whether through preparing pre-health students to navigate the hidden medical curriculum or preparing future patients to navigate the health care system” (2017, 420).
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