The Role of Humanities Education in Medical Students' Curriculum

The European medical society no longer believes in the independence of experimental sciences from the humanities. This idea began with Bacon's empiricism and Descartes' dualism, and made medical education away from a comprehensive view of man and the teaching humanities to medical students is an undeniable necessity. Paying attention to the necessity of this connection can once again become the origin of scientific production and the cooperation of the universities of the Ministry of Science and Health in the educational planning of medical humanities by using the background of medical wisdom for the purpose of explaining the position of medicine, creating educational-research institutions, and paying attention to interdisciplinary and medical humanities curriculum can be a scientific and intellectual rise in the incorporation of humanities medical education. Through library research the relationship between humanities and medical knowledge of western thinkers and the thought and life of doctors of Iranian-Islamic culture was investigated to highlight the necessity of the fundamental connection of humanities and medical sciences curriculum