Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 1688-1691.doi: 10.16352/j.issn.1001-6325.2025.12.1688

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A brief discussion on the evolution of medical models and the philosophical reflections

CHEN Gang1, DENG Yafang1, YU Si1, LIU Anlei2, WU Haiting1, SUN Yifei4*, WU Dong3*   

  1. 1. Department of Nephrology; 2. Department of Emergency; 3. Department of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing 100730;
    4. Medicine-Education Coordination and Medical Education Center, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050017, China
  • Received:2025-07-14 Revised:2025-09-19 Online:2025-12-05 Published:2025-11-25
  • Contact: *sunyifei1983@sina.com;wudong061002@aliyun.com

Abstract: From the natural-philosophical model of medicine in ancient Greece to the modern bio-psycho-social paradigm, the evolution of medical models has always been shaped by philosophy. In classical antiquity, medicine and philosophy were closely intertwined; the natural-philosophical model, exemplified by Hippocrates, emphasized the human body as an integrated whole. During the Renaissance, the rise of experimental science challenged traditional philosophical systems and pushed medicine toward empirical investigation. In the late twentieth century, the bio-psycho-social model emerged to address the limitations of the purely biomedical approach. In the twenty-first century, the advent of artificial intelligence is driving a new transformation in medicine and continually prompting reflection on the future direction of medical models and their underlying philosophical significance.

Key words: medical model, medical education, philosophy, artificial intelligence

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