UK based medical humanities programs

Please contact us if you feel any additional UK programs do not feature below.

Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen,
The School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Centre for Medical Humanities

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical/humanities/

Belfast

Queen’s University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofModernLanguages/Research/LatinAmericanStudiesForum/MedicalhumanitiesPGskillsworkshop/

Birmingham

University of Birmingham
Ethics and Medical Humanities group

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/mds/domains/health-pop/healthcare-evaluation-and-methodology/ethics-and-medical-humanities/index.aspx

Dublin

The University of Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Arts and Humanities Research Institute
TCD Medical Humanities Initiative

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/projects/medical-humanities/

Exeter

University of Exeter,
Medical Humanities across Centres

www.exeter.ac.uk/research/inspiring/keythemes/hass/medicalhumanities/

University of Exeter,
Medical School

A legacy of the Peninsula Medical School and Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter University medical school runs the most advanced core and integrated medical humanities programme in any medical school. The medical humanities are integrated into provision and do not warrant a separate website. There is vibrant research in the field, linking with Medical Humanities across Centres at the University of Exeter (above). A large range of Special Study Components (SSCs) run in Years 1, 2 and 4, with a longitudinal SSC in Year 4 taken by all students that results in an assessed piece of work and a student-run conference.

Here is an example of a recent Year 4 students’ work commenting on the UK England junior doctors’ strike (MP3 file)

medicine.exeter.ac.uk

Glasgow

University of Glasgow
School of Medicine
Medical Humanities Unit

www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/medicine/medicalhumanitiesunit/

University of Glasgow
Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland (MHRNS)

www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/fundedresearchprojects/mhrns/

Keele University
Keele University School of Humanities
Medical Humanities

BSc Medical Humanities

https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities/study/medicalhumanities/

Kent

University of Kent, School of English
Faculty of Humanities
MA in Medical Humanities

www.kent.ac.uk/history/centres/medicine/

University of Kent, School of History
Centre for the History of Medicine
Ethics and Medical Humanities

www.kent.ac.uk/history/centres/medicine/

Leeds

Leeds University Faculty of Arts
Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities

www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125123/centre_for_medical_humanities/

Leicester

University of Leicester
The Centre for Medical Humanities

www2.le.ac.uk/centres/cmh

London

Imperial College London
Intercalated BSc in Humanities, Philosophy and Law

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/study/undergraduate/intercalated-bsc-programme/humanities-philosophy-and-law/

Nottingham

University of Nottingham
International Health Humanities Network

www.healthhumanities.org

Oxford

University of Oxford
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

TORCH is based at the historic Radcliffe Humanities Building. The building was formerly the Radcliffe Infirmary, which was Oxford’s first hospital and was open from 1770 to 2007. It is fitting that a centre that supports research that brings the sciences and arts together should be based in an old hospital. Indeed, one of TORCH’s major initial programmes is a collaborative venture called Medicine, Science and the Humanities which, according to Prof. Mark Harrison, the programme director, “will produce the world’s largest forum for Medical Humanities and provide an unparalleled resource for public and professional engagement”.

www.torch.ox.ac.uk/about/radcliffe-humanities-building

Plymouth

University of Plymouth
Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry

A legacy of the Peninsula Medical School and Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, runs the most advanced core and integrated medical humanities programme in any medical school (with University of Exeter Medical School). The medical and dental humanities are integrated into provision and do not warrant a separate website. There is vibrant research in the field. A large range of Special Study Components (SSCs) run in Years 1, 2 and 4, with a longitudinal SSC in Year 4 taken by all students that results in an assessed piece of work and a student-run conference.

www1.plymouth.ac.uk/peninsula/Pages/default.aspx