Exploring the “Friendly Clinic” Teaching Model in Medical Humanities

To address the current issues of disconnection between medical humanities education and clinical practice, as well as the generally weak development of medical students' humanistic literacy, this study explores a novel teaching model for role empowerment and humanistic cultivation based on the "Friendly Clinic" concept. This model was implemented and tested in the training of 320 medical students at a large tertiary general hospital in China. Results demonstrate that humanistic education driven by clinical scenarios enables students to simultaneously apply knowledge, develop skills, and internalize values during real-world service, achieving effective integration of teaching and learning. Role empowerment not only reinforces professional understanding but also promotes value internalization, offering a practical solution to the "separation of knowledge and action" in ideological and political education. This innovative medical humanities teaching model for Friendly Clinics holds significant practical value.