Introduction
True to its history, the College of Medicine trains students to become knowledgeable, caring, and compassionate physicians with all the tools necessary for a lifetime of learning. In today’s constantly evolving profession of medicine, this type of training is critical. The college’s programs in Medical Humanities and Women’s Health Education help students pursue special goals.

Medical Humanities
Through the Medical Humanities program, students learn to frame issues in patient care within a cultural, social and historical perspective. They also learn to recognize ethical issues, analyze them, and choose appropriate courses of action.

Faculty members from the humanities program are involved in several medical school courses. Required coursework in bioethics and electives such as Doctor-Patient Communication and Death and Dying are available, as is the innovative Humanities Scholar Program, which lets students design and complete a four-year individualized course of study. A broad range of elective humanities courses is also offered to all students.

For more information about the Medical Humanities program, please visit webcampus.med.drexel.edu/MedHumanities.

Women’s Health Education
Traditionally, physicians were taught medicine from textbooks that used men as models for everything but the female reproductive system. They were taught to give medical care based on clinical research performed largely on men.

Drexel University College of Medicine’s predecessor, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, began changing that bias more than 150 years ago. And now the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership and the Women’s Health Education Program are continuing the groundbreaking tradition. Their curricular reform incorporates women’s health into all aspects of medical education.

For more information about the Women’s Health Education Program, please visit webcampus.med.drexel.edu/WHEP.