spirituality and medicine:
curriculum development project

Examples of courses involving spirituality already in existence

In 2007 both Neely and Minford and Randall and Goulding both conducted similar questionnaire-based surveys of the level of spirituality teaching in UK medical schools.

» View the abstract to Neely and Minford's article in Medical Education

» View the results of Randall and Goulding's survey

Below are some examples of courses already running that specifically address spirituality, shared by kind permission of the medical schools running them. Please read and be inspired. There is also a description of how spirituality teaching has taken off in American medical schools over the past decade or so. We are keen to expand this list of sample courses, so if you have a course teaching medical students about spirituality, please contact us.

» Bristol 'Human Basis of Medicine' course

» Edinburgh primary care course

» Oxford palliative care course

» Belfast 'Wholeness in Healing' course

» Belfast 'Spirituality in Surgery' course

» Aberdeen 'Spirituality, Health and Healing' course

» The devlopment of courses in spirituality in US medical schools

» Online modules in spirituality from the University of Minnesota

» Share details of a course addressing spirituality at your institution

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