MedSchools: Medical Humanities Teaching and World Ranking.

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Medical Humanities Teaching and World Ranking.

Description

Medical humanities courses and average world ranking in 109 in US medical schools. Two rankings were used for medical schools: the Times Higher Education in the ‘clinical, pre-clinical, and health’ category and the U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) ranking.

Usage

MedSchools

Format

A data frame with 109 observations on the following 4 variables.

School

Name of the medical school.

Ranking

Average world ranking for the medical school.

Humanities

The number of medical humanities courses offered to students.

Compulsory

Whether at least one humanities course was offered.

Details

Medical humanities are believed to positively impact medical education and medical practice, yet the extent of medical humanities teaching in medical schools is largely unknown. As part of a larger study, Howick et al explored whether there was a relationship between the number (mandatory or not) of medical humanities topics offered and the average world ranking in 109 accredited medical schools in the US.

References

Howick, J., Zhao, L., McKaig, B., Rosa, A., Campaner, R., Oke, J.L. and Ho, D., 2022. Do medical schools teach medical humanities? Review of curricula in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 28(1), pp.86-92.

Examples

data(MedSchools, package = "R4HCR")

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