医学是一门科学和一门艺术。照顾病人是一种专业和科学的实践，对于病人和从业者而言，也是一种私人的，深厚的人际关系。从业人员必须能够理解疾病和治疗的科学，并能根据更广泛的社会文化背景下的独特价值观，信念和感受来了解每个患者的个人疾病经历。此外，从业者还必须能够考虑他/她自己的个人价值观，信念，对患者的感觉以及健康专业的广泛背景。医学人文科学领域使用人文和艺术学科的观点和工具来研究医疗保健的人文环境。根据罗切斯特医疗保健教育的生物心理社会传统，该计划提供了该领域的基础培训。学生学习人文学科时应考虑人际关系以及患
Medicine is a science and an art. Caring for a patient is a professional and scientific practice, it is also a personal and profoundly human relationship for both the patient and the practitioner. The practitioner must be able to understand the science of diseases and treatments, and attend to each patient's personal experience of illness as it is informed by unique values, beliefs and feelings within broader socio-cultural contexts. Further, the practitioner must also be able to consider his/her own personal values, beliefs, feelings regarding the patient and the broader context of the health professions.<br>The field of Medical Humanities uses the perspectives and tools of humanities and arts disciplines to study the human contexts of healthcare. In the biopsychosocial tradition of healthcare education at Rochester, the program provides foundational training in this field. Students study humanities to consider interpersonal perspectives and sociocultural contexts of patients and caregivers, and to develop skills that can be applied directly to the practice and teaching of healthcare.The program is administered through the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. This is a full-time one year Master's in Science degree program (end of August end of May) and is intended for students, trainees, professionals and scholars in:<br>Healthcare Disciplines - medicine, nursing, dentistry, social work, and pastoral care, in allied health sciences occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistants to develop humanities-based knowledge and skills that can be applied to their clinical practice.<br>Humanities and Social Science Disciplines - literature, history, visual arts, anthropology, performing arts, gender, cultural and religious studies who want to integrate aspects of medicine and patient care into their academic work and teaching.<br>Gap Year or Bridging Year Students