Surgery Grand Rounds - Byers W. Shaw, Jr. Lectureship in Surgery

Medical Humanities in the COVID ERA: Challenges and Opportunities

Molly Worthen, PhD

Associate Professor of History; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Objectives:

1. Define the medical humanities and place them in historical and cultural context
2. Discuss the results of my research on new developments in the medical humanities at the undergraduate and graduate levels
3. Engage the audience in open discussion of the role of the humanities in modern medical education