Philosophy in Medical Curriculum: Toward a Reflective Professional Practice

PhilosophyPhilosophy ofTareq medicineMedicine is a re-emerging interdisciplinary field investigating theoretical and conceptualConceptual aspects of biomedicalBiomedical research and practice. Medicine aims to do the right thing in the right way by a competent health worker. This is what makes medicine a valuable normative discipline in terms of both empirical scienceScience and humanitiesHumanity. PhilosophyPhilosophy is the mother of all sciencesScience since no scienceScience is conceivable without a philosophicalPhilosophical background. The philosophyPhilosophy of medicine as a field is concerned with the onto-epistemological contextContexts that justifies scienceScience and medicine as scientificScientific and moral enterprises. ConsequentlyConsequently, there is no such entity as a philosophy-free scienceScience or medicineMedicine. Only philosophy-based medicine can guarantee personalized holistic medicine. This chapterChapter aims to investigate this philosophicalPhilosophical foundation concerning medical education. EdmundEdmund PellegrinoPellegrino representsPhilosophers philosopher David ThomasmaThomasma, D., who began his book on the philosophyPhilosophy of medicine with a keen understanding that medicine and philosophyPhilosophy oscillate within one another like the strandsStrand of a complex double helixHelix of the intellect. They are alternately drawn together and separated by their often-opposing preoccupations with man’s existence.