The Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit (MEHU) was formed in 2012 under HKUMed to develop, integrate and coordinate the teaching and learning in ethics and humanities for undergraduate medical students.
To deepen the experience of being human, to cultivate humaneness, to be a humanitarian
To help nurture the development of medical students into caring physicians who are capable of a deeper understanding of the human condition and thus provide better care to the patients as well as to themselves.
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.” — Paul Kalanithi. When Breath Becomes Air
The Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit (MEHU) was formed in 2012 under HKUMed to develop, integrate and coordinate the teaching and learning in ethics and humanities for undergraduate medical students.
To deepen the experience of being human, to cultivate humaneness, to be a humanitarian
To help nurture the development of medical students into caring physicians who are capable of a deeper understanding of the human condition and thus provide better care to the patients as well as to themselves.
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.” — Paul Kalanithi. When Breath Becomes Air
Real life is messy, people are complicated and very little in health is black and white. Through medical ethics and humanities we aim to promote and develop an appreciation of what it is to be human for the doctor and patient as they traverse suffering and healing together. Explore, share and join us in cultivating reflective healthcare professionals and an inclusive, compassionate community.
