Objectives and Program of Graduate Work

The Medical Humanities Graduate Program offers graduate work for students pursuing an M.A. or a Ph.D. in the medical humanities. The Medical Humanities Graduate Program also coordinates plans of study leading to M.D./Ph.D. degrees (as part of UTMB's M.D./Ph.D. Combined Degree Program) and J.D./Ph.D. degrees (in collaboration with the University of Houston Law Center). Course work is also available for UTMB graduate students in other programs. Ph.D. students in the medical humanities are expected to 1) acquire a general knowledge of the humanist tradition; 2) become acquainted with the methods and literature of the humanities as these relate to medicine; 3) develop competence in one or more humanities disciplines and apply this competence to the investigation of a particular problem; 4) transform this investigation into a dissertation that represents significant and original research; and 5) demonstrate an ability to teach and work with a variety of persons in the humanities and the health sciences and professions.

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