Medical curricula are concerned with preparing physicians with humanistic traits. Thus, these traits become educational objectives, for which a teaching method needs to be developed. As objectives, they can be handled pedagogically on the basis of the theoretical conceptual body that informs curriculum planning such as the classical taxonomy of educational objectives. This taxonomy can cover a great number of objectives related to these humanistic traits, organizing them and making the task of curriculum planning in this area easier; it leaves unmapped however some crucial aspects of human knowledge, such as objectives regarding self-knowledge, self-development, individuation, awareness of personal feelings and inter-personal communication skills. Thus, other conceptual systems with theoretical references more adequate for the Humanities. Should be considered. Both are reviewed in this paper. These conceptual systems should be used in addition to each other and to the classical taxonomy, allowing humanistic objectives to be sought in each of their categories and subcategories. This way, the range of humanistic teaching objectives can be increased.
Humanities; Humanities; Curriculum