Integrating medical humanities in undergraduate medical education: a curricular model aligned with the InspirE5 framework.

IF 3.2 2区医学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

BMC Medical Education Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI:10.1186/s12909-025-07772-w

Valle Coronado-Vázquez, Diana Monge Martín, Sara Arrimadas Salinas, Sandra Carr, Fernando Caballero Martínez, Santiago Álvarez Montero

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Background: Medical Humanities (MH) integrate the human sciences, arts and social sciences into medical education to foster empathy, ethical reflection and critical thinking. This article presents the MH programme at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV), framed within the InspirE5 model-an internationally informed framework for designing and evaluating health humanities curricula.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative descriptive-interpretive study using document analysis and triangulated phenomenological interpretation. A multidisciplinary team analysed the programme according to the five domains of the InspirE5 model: Environment, Expectations, Experiences, Evidence, and Enhancement.

Results: The UFV MH programme aligns closely with the InspirE5 capabilities, integrating them into a longitudinal, compulsory curriculum. It includes diverse pedagogical methods-such as mentoring, experiential learning, reflective writing, and interdisciplinary seminars-fostering person-centredness, ambiguity tolerance, and ethical imagination.

Conclusions: The programme demonstrates a coherent integration of MH across six academic years and provides a model of transformative, transdisciplinary education. Its alignment with the InspirE5 framework strengthens its value as a paradigm for medical humanities development, assessment and international comparison.

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将医学人文融入本科医学教育：与InspirE5框架一致的课程模式。

背景：医学人文学科（MH）将人文科学、艺术和社会科学纳入医学教育，以培养同理心、道德反思和批判性思维。本文介绍了弗朗西斯科·德维多利亚大学（UFV）的人文学科项目，该项目采用了InspirE5模式——一个设计和评估健康人文学科课程的国际知情框架。方法：采用文献分析和三角法现象学解释进行定性描述解释研究。一个多学科团队根据InspirE5模型的五个领域（环境、期望、经验、证据和增强）对该计划进行了分析。结果：UFV MH项目与InspirE5能力紧密结合，将它们整合到纵向的必修课程中。它包括多种教学方法，如指导、体验式学习、反思性写作和跨学科研讨会，以培养以人为本、容忍歧义和道德想象力。结论：该计划展示了六个学年的MH连贯整合，并提供了一个变革的跨学科教育模式。它与InspirE5框架的一致性增强了其作为医学人文发展、评估和国际比较范例的价值。

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BMC Medical Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-

CiteScore

4.90

自引率

11.10%

发文量

795

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.