A Study On The Construction Of Humanistic Educational System In Medical Universities

The dual attribute of science and humanism exists in the discipline of medicine, whichsets higher requirements for medical workers, especially in the background labeled by rapidscientific development, steady social progress, changed modern medical patterns andgrowing needs for medical services. The obligation of cultivating and producinghigh-qualified medical workers exists in higher medical education, and hence, the qualitiesof medical graduates determine the level of the medical services they will provide.Therefore, the cultivation of the humanistic spirit plays an essential role in medicaleducation nowadays, and such awareness, in fact, stems from the rational criticism oftraditional medical education which simply focuses on pure science. Furthermore, plenty ofchanges will foresee ably occur in medical humanistic education, following the newpolicies of national medical reform, the international medical education standard, and thereport of the prospect of medical education in the21st century. In the above sense, the focusof the research lies on the point of in what way the humanistic qualities of medical studentswill be enhanced in a brand-new humanistic educational system consistent with thedemands of the present time. The dissertation consists of five chapters:Chapter One: It concerns the categorization of the concepts concerned, and henceestablishes the theoretical foundation.Chapter Two: It involves a historical review of the humanistic education in China andthe West, a study of the changes in medical humanistic education of different stages, aclarification of the influences of socio-politics, economy, technology and religion onmedical humanistic education and a summary of features of the unique educational patternin each stage.Chapter Three: Through the contrast analysis of different educational patterns betweenuniversities in the West and China, it discloses the developing characteristics, law and trend,and offers the realistic basis for the policy-makings in the educational reform of our country.Chapter Four: Through the survey concerning the humanistic qualities of medicalstudents in our country and the further collections of factual evidences and expert opinions,it reveals the existing problems in the present educational situation, and offers the materialbasis for the construction of the future humanistic educational system.Chapter Five: It states the principles for the construction of the humanistic educationin our medical universities, and involves the cultivation of the humanistic qualities formedical students in the comprehensive medical educational system.Through the reference of the latest research results in the disciplines of philosophy,system science, sociology, medicine, education science, management science, psychology andetc., the employment of different research methods of historical study, comparative study,literature study, theoretical study and expert interview, and the study of connotations,historical development, functions, influential factors and characteristics, the author of thedissertation attempts to discover the strategies of cultivating the humanistic qualities formedical students, to construct the system for humanistic education, to propose the measuresfor improving humanistic education, and hence to provide valuable literature resource forbettering the qualities of higher medical education.