There are now fewer than 24 hours to go before the final deadline for the student essays, and a fortnight to go before our deadline for assessments: so, the end of the first year of the project is in sight. No doubt much reflection & feedback will take place, and decisions will be made about including the Medical Humanities options in next year’s SSCs. From informal conversations last night at our end-of-module party, the students appear to have enjoyed themselves, and found the Humanities options useful as a whole. (Thanks to Lisetta for the excellent hospitality. Once again, I forgot to take my camera, so no photographs.)
An interesting piece of information from the A.M.H. conference in Truro: apparently, medical students who study Humanities as part of their course are more able to cope with “ambiguity” once they qualify as doctors. I wonder how you measure ambiguity? By definition, one would expect it to be a bit tricky to pin down – is a situation ambiguous, or isn’t it? Or is it? or perhaps not?
