Humanities classes featured in LancasterOnline story

For 50 years, since Penn State College of Medicine opened in 1967, its future doctors have been required to take humanities courses right along with their medical classes.

The students and their professors say these classes, which cover art, literature, music, film, ethics and self-expression, will help them someday become more compassionate, attentive doctors.

A recent story on LancasterOnline highlighted the work being done by the College’s Department of Humanities, including its new Medical Detective class. In that class, students share medical case studies of the deaths of famous people such as Wolfgang Mozart, Edgar Allan Poe and George Washington, and their classmates must figure out the cause of death and guess the famous fatality.

Read the full LancasterOnline story here.

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