Does medical education need history of medicine? This paper examines the potential of this discipline in medical education. History of medicine is not a ”hagiography”. It deals with the historical, cultural and social context of the development of modern medical thinking and practice. One role of the history of medicine is to identify, analyze and criticize the foundations of our present understanding of medicine that reflected in its ”real” history. Historical studies on medicine are not anti science-and-technology based medicine. They could help us understand more profoundly the very sense of what we exactly do. From the perspective of medical humanities, it is proposed that the future of such studies may combine the cognate disciplines, such as history, philosophy and sociology to form ”medicine studies”.