Comments on: Arts and humanities: a neglected aspect of education in South Asia

By: English as the Language of Medical Humanities Learning in Nepal: Our Experiences | Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:50:00 +0000

[...] Asian schools and the language of instruction at school have been covered in a recent blog article (Shankar R. Arts and humanities: a neglected aspect of education in South Asia, British Medical Journal: Medical Humanities [...]

By: unnikrishnan

unnikrishnan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:46:26 +0000

very interesting work.
its time that we looked more seriously at these aspects of medical education.

By: vasanta leela

vasanta leela — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:50:04 +0000

So many of us medical educators feel deeply about this unhealthy polarization in the “binging up” of young medical professionals.
Perhaps some, who are in positions capable of enforcing change, can incorporate a humanities-exposure into their undergraduate medical curriculum, as the author himself has successfully attempted and reported.
May your race flourish, Dr. Ravi.

By: Saira Banu

Saira Banu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:49:01 +0000

Congratulations on a well written blog. Food for thought, indeed.