Division of Medical Humanities

Janet Fleetwood, Ph.D., Chief. The Division of Medical Humanities offers a required curriculum in medical ethics for all students, oversees a four-year longitudinal curriculum in medical ethics and directs skills training in cultural competence. In addition, the Division conducts a variety of elective courses, lectures and conferences on ethical, cultural and humanistic aspects of medicine on all campuses.

Students with a special interest in the humanities may become Humanities Scholars by completing three electives, participating in Division events and writing a humanities research paper. In addition, the Division provides multidisciplinary clinical ethics consultations for patient care issues and consultation on cross-cultural patient care.

Division of Medical Informatics

In 2001 the Division of Medical Informatics, Russell C. Maulitz, MD, Ph.D., Chief, launched The Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI), uniting a number of faculty and institutional components from Drexel University and Drexel University College of Medicine(TM). The Medical Informatics and IHI groups work with other FCPM divisions and Drexel colleges and schools to foster research into several concentration areas, including digital libraries; special projects; primary care physician support; distance education for both practicing and training physicians; and mobile computing. For more links to these projects, please bookmark this site and check back here in coming months.

IHI’s projects, embodying these objectives, include the Primary Care Health Information Project, Primary Care Grand Rounds (directed by Arnold Smolen, Ph.D), and the digital edition of the Surgeon-General’s Index-Catalog. Watch this space for announcements about our forthcoming Graduate Programs, conjointly with Drexel’s College of Information Science and Technology), Medical Informatics Fellowship programs for graduating House Staff, and a number of collaborative telemedicine projects with DUCOM clinical departments.