Medical Humanities
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More NewsMedical Humanities students Emma Fraga and Mallory Abbott, pictured with faculty member Dr. Emilie Cunningham, were honored at the Honors Academic Convocation on April 4, 2025.
Medical Humanities professor, Dr. Jason Whitt, is one of eleven professors honored with Outstanding Faculty Awards for teaching, scholarship and contributions to the academic community for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Three Medical Humanities students have been named finalists for the prestigious Fulbright Award for the 2025-26 cycle. They are Hannah Anderson, a University Scholar with a Medical Humanities minor, and Medical Humanities majors, Aron Basurto and Abigail Pitts. We are so proud of these amazing students!
Dr. Pui Him Ip and Dr. Pavlina Kasparova with the Faraday Institute at Cambridge University visited Baylor recently to talk to students about their study abroad program. This one semester program aims to provide an immersive global experience in the contemporary intellectual dialogue between science and religion.
Success Stories
"Medical Humanities taught me to communicate complex ideas with empathy. In government, this skill is paramount to drive policies that genuinely impact lives."
"A great deal of health is beyond what I can explain objectively. My foundation in the medical humanities plays a huge role in helping me understand the subjectivity within my patients' experiences of their medical condition."
"Medical Humanities courses helped me consider all aspects of the patient's care, whether from the perspective of society, the healthcare provider, the caregiver, or the patient."
"A lot of people go into college thinking they have to major in one of the traditional sciences to be a good candidate for professional school. However, my background in Medical Humanities helped me learn the vital art and skills of caring for humans - and that is invaluable training for anyone in health care whether they plan to be in pharmacy, medicine, nursing, etc."
"Since before I came to Baylor, health care administration has always been my passion. It's the glue that holds the whole health care enterprise together and medical humanities helps me make sure I keep patients where they belong-at the center!"
Medical Humanities "Gave me a space to think about death and understand how that is going to affect me when patients die. Death is not the enemy of medicine."