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Curricular examples for education on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust

Last Updated: January 17, 2025

Description

This section offers supplementary materials to "The Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: historical evidence, implications for today, teaching for tomorrow" report in the form of 18 curricular examples for teaching on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust across international medical schools. These exemplars include goals, objectives, activities, assessment methods to stimulate further education about history, to inform and understand the present, and ultimately improve contemporary health care. 

This free Supplementary appendix is a separate download for the report. To download the supplement select the PDF link under the heading “Supplementary material (1)” on the report download page. There are no fees associated with the download but registration is required.

Authors

1. Legacy of the Role of Medicine and Nursing in the Holocaust. School of Nursing, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Professors Julie A. Kruse PhD, RN and Hedy S. Wald, PhD
2. A 3-hour introductory seminar elective for 1st year nursing students: “Medicine, Nursing and Nazism.” Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain. Professors Esteban Gonzalez-López and Rosa Rios-Cortés. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 
3. A 3-hour session within a clinical skills course; 1st year, Azrieli Medical School, Safed, Israel May 2022. Professor Shmuel Reis
4. Seton Hall University, Teachers Study Day: Holocaust and Genocide Education, two 90-minute virtual presentations, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Sabine Hildebrandt MD
5. Educating Internal Medicine Residents on the Role of Physicians during the Holocaust; Northwell Health Internal Medicine Residency programme (NY, USA), Half a day follow-up on AAMC seminar 2022. Aleena Paul MD, Lauren Block MD
6. Medicine during the Holocaust MOOC (Massive Open On-Line Course). A semester-long elective. Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Hebrew version in second iteration 22-3, English version in production for 2023. Dr Michal Ramot; Prof Shmuel Reis
7. A semester-long Genetics Course, division of biology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA: Genetic Engineering: Miracle for Humanity or New Pathway to Eugenics? Fall 2021. Hybrid (In-Person/ Asynchronous Online). Professors Mannie Liscum; Michael L. Garcia
8. Medicine in the reflection of the Holocaust (MDTH), required, 2d year (155 students), Goldman faculty of medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; Prof Matthew Fox
9. Nursing School (MSN), Course Title: Medicine, Nursing, and Leadership during the Holocaust. Semester course, required. The Lev College, Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Anat Romem; Dr Zvika Orr
10. Longitudinal strand: Curricular teaching on Medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust (MNH) at Giessen University Medical School; coordinated by the Institute of the History of Medicine, Giessen University, chair: Volker Roelcke 
11. Cultivating Medical Awareness and Ethics Using the Example of Medicine in National Socialism: a three-year elective, interprofessional curriculum. Witten-Herdecke Faculty of Medicine, Germany. Professors Diethard Tauschel MD; Peter Selg MD, F. Edelhäuser MD, A. Witkowski MD, Hedy S. Wald PhD 
12. Complex ‘T4’– The National Socialist (Nazi) ‘Euthanasia’ Murders. A virtual Excursion to the Memorial and Information Site for the Victims of National Socialist (Nazi) ‘Euthanasia’ Murders, at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin, Germany. Professor Maike Rotzoll MD
13. A Day in a Holocaust Museum (based on a Rappaport medical school, Haifa, Israel programme that was implemented in the 5th and later the 3d year of the curriculum through a required full day visit to the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel). Prof Shmuel P Reis
14. Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Michigan, USA; Holocaust and Medicine Programme, Study Trip to Auschwitz. Jason Adam Wasserman, PhD, HEC-C; Hedy S. Wald, PhD
15. An Example of a Study Trip to Holocaust and Medicine-related sites for students registered for the course: The Holocaust, A Reflection from Medicine. Professors Esteban Gonzalez-López and Rosa Rios-Cortés. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
16. A semester long course, Ethics, Medicine & the Holocaust: Legacies in Health & Society. Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Professor Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D. 
17. A three-hour required curriculum module: Holocaust and Medicine Education/Social Justice. Betsy Goebel Jones, EdD, Simon Williams, PhD, & Hedy S. Wald, PhD. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas 
18. Physicians, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties: Lessons from the Holocaust: A two-hour session for second year medical students. Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr Ariel Lefkowitz