This paper introduces an innovative curricular approach—the Health Humanities Portrait Approach (Portrait Approach)—and its pedagogical tool—the Health Humanities Portrait (HHP). Both enable health professions learners to examine pressing social issues that shape, and are shaped by, experiences of health and illness. The Portrait Approach is grounded in a set of “critical portraiture” principles that foster humanities-driven analytical skills. The HHP’s architecture is distinctively framed around a pressing social theme and utilizes a first-person narrative and scholarship to explore how the dimensions of the personal and the structural are mutually constituted. We argue that when creator-educators adopt the Portrait Approach and its critical portraiture principles to design and teach the HHP, they enable learners to become proficient in synthesizing and analyzing—with both depth and breadth—the human and social dimensions of patients’ lives. This inventive curricular intervention provides a needed contribution to health professions education in that it utilizes health humanities methodologies to elucidate the multiple aspects of health, illness, disability, and healthcare.

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以患者为中心，揭示结构：健康人文肖像方法

本文介绍了一种创新的课程方法——健康人文肖像方法（Portrait Approach）——及其教学工具——健康人文肖像（HHP）。两者都使卫生专业学习者能够研究塑造健康和疾病体验并受其影响的紧迫社会问题。肖像方法以一系列“批判肖像”原则为基础，这些原则可以培养人文驱动的分析技能。HHP 的建筑以紧迫的社会主题为特色，并利用第一人称叙述和学术探索个人和结构的维度如何相互构成。我们认为，当创作者教育者采用肖像方法及其批判性肖像原则来设计和教授 HHP 时，它们使学习者能够熟练地综合和分析——深度和广度——患者生活的人文和社会维度。这种创造性的课程干预为健康专业教育提供了必要的贡献，因为它利用健康人文方法来阐明健康、疾病、残疾和医疗保健的多个方面。