Table 2.

Summary of qualitative results organized by temporal domain and theme

Temporal domain	Themes
1. Approaching Health Humanities: Confronting Forced Choices	a. Charting Disciplinary Real Estate
	b. The Humanities Brand: Draws (Novelty, Previous positive relationship, Perceived applicability to health, Curricular necessity) and Deterrents (Unfamiliarity, Diminished disciplinary prestige, Fear of failure, Gendered content)
	c. Enticements to Interdisciplinarity (Disciplinary estrangement vs Epistemological alienation)
2. Encountering Health Humanities: “Real Life Adult” Ambivalence	a. “You just sit there”: Passivity, Compliance, and Conventional Health Education
	b. Redrawing Sites of Disciplinary Knowledge Authority
	c. Humanities as Practical Training
	d. “It’s a double-edged sword”: Interdisciplinarity and Creative Community Building
3. “You get this humanity touching you”: After Health Humanities	a. Cultivating Epistemological Multicompetence
	b. Managing Complexity and Affective Entanglement
	c. Developing Aesthetic Capability
	d. “A newfound respect for the arts”