Arts & Humanities In Health & Medicine Program - University Of Alberta

The human side of medicine.

The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry's Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine (AHHM) Program offers explicit recognition that clinical practice is both an art and a science. In 2006, Dr. Indira Samarasekera, President of the University of Alberta, congratulated the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry for establishing the Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine Program. She stated: "With foresight and amazing collaboration you have launched the University of Alberta toward precisely the kind of future outlined in our vision for creating a great university. " The AHHM program recognizes the many relationships that exist between the arts, humanities, and social sciences and medicine. Our program exists to initiate activity and inquiry into these intersections, and also provides a focus for existing activities in this area across the Faculty, the University of Alberta, and elsewhere.