Medicine, Humanities and the Arts

Description from DukeHub

How do the humanities and the arts help us understand the human experience of illness, suffering, and dying? How does skilled storytelling improve our ability to guide families facing complicated decisions and uncertainty? Can literature improve our ability to care for patients from different cultures and backgrounds? Drawing on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, this course will emphasize concrete ways in which the humanities and the arts can teach us to be better doctors. Class may be taken individually or as part of longitudinal MS3 medical humanities sequence. Pre-requisite: Permission of the Instructor is required - Instructor must provide permission number. Open to MS3 students (with mentor approval) and to MS4 students. Third year students must obtain email approval from their mentors in order enroll. The email approval should be sent to the (contact listed in DukeHub) and to the course director. Enrollment Max.: 16; Minimum Enrollment: 8. Credit: 1. Offered spring 82; The class will meet in-person, in the Trent Center Conference Room, 108A Seeley G. Mudd Medical Center Library Building; Thursday Evenings, 5:15pm - 7:15pm. Sneha Mantri, MD

Skills

• clinicalSchool of Medicine clinical course

AI-resilient: 4 of 5 4/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · clinical rotation
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "patients"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "decisions"
• ✓Yes: A craft you practice with your hands or body · "drawing"
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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