COVID underlines value of humanities in medical education
Towards the end of January 2015, Professor Jenna Healey, Jason A Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, ended her lecture to the third-year medical students on the history of epidemics by projecting a slide of the Ebola virus above her as she recapped the top 10 things they needed to know.
The following year, she spoke beneath a picture of the Zika virus.
On 27 January 2020, a picture of the novel coronavirus that had recently been identified in Wuhan, China, filled the screen above her as she made her last point about epidemics: “This will happen again, and it will happen to you.”