Prof Ian Sabroe and Dr Dieter Declercq talk to Dr Lauren Barron about the role of humanities in medical education, focussing especially on the innovative Medical Humanities Program at Baylor University, which provides undergraduate students who aspire towards careers in healthcare with a foundation in both sciences and humanities.
Dr Lauren Barron is Clinical Professor, Director of the Medical Humanities Program, and Inaugural Michael E DeBakey, M.D., Selma DeBakey and Lois DeBakey Chair for Medical Humanities at Baylor University. The Medical Humanities Program at Baylor is one of the first of its kind in the United States. The program partners the humanities with science education to holistically prepare those going into the medical field. Lauren dedicates most of her time to the professional formation of university students before they enter into medical school and other health professional programs with the belief that they need more than basic science courses to prepare them to be the kind of caregivers we want and need them to be.
