为了提高效率，医疗保健专业人员不仅需要从科学的角度了解人体的运作，而​​且还需要了解人和社会的运作方式以及关怀人的艺术和科学。有爱心的保健专业人员的解释能力和洞察力将得到帮助，运用道德敏感性，并意识到自己的价值观和态度。<br>该专业建议平衡学生的教育体验，在这些学生中，文科和人文学科可能为他们对卫生专业的第二学位课程的准备做出贡献。<br>任何已经计划从事医学，牙科或医学职业的学生作为卫生专业人员，在卫生保健政策或法律，心理学，公共/全球卫生，社会工作，患者倡导或卫生新闻学领域，将从该专业的学习中受益。
To be an effective healthcare professional you need to understand the workings of the body from a scientific perspective and how people and societies function. The major in Humanities in Health and Medicine is an interdisciplinary, humanistic and cultural study of health, illness, health care and the human body, mind and spirit. You'll be prepared to care for people by bringing together the traditions of humanities, inquiry, compassion and judgement to bear on the management and on the promotion of health and the treatment of illness.