course description
| Directors: | Kenneth DeVille, Ph.D., J.D.
Loretta Kopelman, Ph.D.
Janet Malek, Ph.D.
John C. Moskop, Ph.D.
Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D.
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| Telephone: | 744-2797
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| Address: | Med Hums, Brody 2S-17
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| Duration: | 4 weeks (1/2 days)
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| Students/Block: | Minimum 1 Maximum 4
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| Report To: | Must contact instructor in advance for topic and schedule
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| Offered: | Blocks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 |
This is a two week equivalent selective spread over one month. It must be taken with another two week equivalent selective (including research options).
Goals
Students will have the opportunity to explore some particular pertinent topic. Such topics might include health policy, philosophy of science, medical epistemology, patients' rights, regulation of scarce resources, pending legislation affecting medicine, history, death and dying, ethics or literature.
Objectives
The student will select a topic and determine appropriate methodology for study.
Student Experience
Two options will be offered. First, students may take the entire elective with a member of the humanities faculty. Second, students may combine medical training with a pertinent topic in the humanities, i.e., a student might want to take an elective jointly with Hematology-Oncology and explore a problem like that of gaining patient consent in randomized clinical trials. Permission of instructor required.
Evaluation of Student's Performance
I. Attendance
II. Readings
III. Participation
