Interdisciplinarity SHS and Health: Teaching, clinical and research activities

Onzième congrès du Collège des humanités médicales (Colhum).

Interdisciplinarity between the Humanities and Social Sciences (SHS) and the field of Health appears to be a shared aspiration, even an asserted imperative. Yet its implementation is often still a complex challenge.

The benefits of dialogue are obvious: medicine that is more attentive to others, a finer understanding of the health/disease relationship, ethically grounded innovations, the emergence of new paradigms for thinking about care or apprehending disease...

Does the strengthening of SHS in training courses translate, for all that, into the practices of healthcare professionals? Couldn't it be, and in what forms, a subject for fruitful exchange and feedback?

At a time when there is talk in France of a review of the recent reform of access to health studies, and when the first and second cycles of medical studies are themselves subject to new reforms, it's worth considering whether we should better promote the integration of SHS throughout the training pathway, to go beyond the simple juxtaposition of disciplines and knowledge, to build truly integrated practices. What are the pitfalls, the misunderstandings, but also the common ground and the successes that emerge when healthcare teachers/researchers, philosophers, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, ethicists, psychologists, lawyers and economists, work together?

The Collège des Humanités Médicales 2026 conference aims to take stock of these issues by focusing on three fundamental pillars: teaching, clinical and research. It invites researchers, teachers, clinicians, students and healthcare players to share their experiences, analyses and critical reflections.

Thematic axes of the congress:

• Teaching: Training in and through interdisciplinarity
• Clinical: Interdisciplinarity for the benefit of the care relationship
• Research: building shared knowledge and methods

Find out more:
https://colhum2026.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en