Students' perspectives about the medical humanities curriculum at the Catholic University of Korea

Abstract

Objectives: This paper presents the results of a qualitative study aimed at elucidating how well the goals of the OMNI-BUS curriculum implemented in Korea as a medical hu-manities curriculum were achieved, from the student perspective. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study to elicit per-spectives of students who participated in all 12 weeks of the OMNIBUS curriculum. Eighteen fourth-year medical students participated in two focus group interviews. Open-ended questions were prepared to guide the interviews. The interviews were audio-taped and transcribed. All data from the interviews were analyzed, using an inductive approach to identify themes.