Program

Education Programs: Education Development and Demonstration

Period of Performance

7/1/1978 - 9/30/1984

Funding Totals

$493,012.00 (approved)
$481,383.11 (awarded)


A Comprehensive Clinical Humanities Residency for Medical Educators

FAIN: ED-*0652-78

University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Knoxville, TN 37916-3801)
Terrence F. Ackerman (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To relate the humanities to the clinical settings of medicine, by providing fellowships and educational training for pre- and post-doctoral students who complete residency, and use the residency as a basis for developing continuing education courses to train medical professionals in the humanities. The focus will be on medical ethics and the philosophy of medicine.