The importance of humanistic education in medical training. Professional decisions between succes and failure

摘要

Natural sciences are combined with humanistic in medical training. More theory or more practice? Natural sciences or humanistic sciences? Should students in medicine acquire humanistic or natural sciences, in order to be able in the future to make the right ethical decisions? Humanistic sciences are those subjects of study concerned with human culture, language, history and philosophy. Humanistic education makes the doctor-patient communication and relationship easier. This paper intends to give an answer to these questions, analyzing medical training in a historical context.