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Emergency Medicine Clerkship

As part of the third-year core required clinical rotations, this clinical clerkship is designed to provide students with foundational knowledge in Emergency Medicine. Through a variety of clinical experiences, students will participate in the care of Emergency Medicine patients. Students will develop and refine their clinical skills (e.g. interviewing, physical examination, differential diagnosis, and formulating diagnostic and treatment plans) for patient problems under the direct supervision of faculty preceptors. Clinical, 25-30 hours per week.

Elective: Integrative Medicine

This elective is designed to broaden students' knowledge about complementary and integrative medicine utilized by their future patients to enhance their health and well-being as well as to effect the body's own healing mechanisms. Students will also gain a heightened sensitivity to these concepts via numerous experiential, interactive sessions with physicians and other practitioners.

Acting Internship: Critical Care Medicine (Micu)

As part of the fourth-year course offerings in the College of Medicine, this secondary acting internship is designed to provide students with an advanced level of direct patient care responsibility, greater than that required during a third-year clerkship or fourth-year elective. During this course, the student will assume direct responsibility for management of patient care, and with the appropriate oversight of supervising physicians, assume the responsibilities of a first-year intern.

Design Thinking In Education

This course exposes students to many facets of design thinking and provides them with an interdisciplinary perspective about the role of design in addressing the world's challenges. This course also raises awareness about the value and power of design thinking our culture. Students will work in collaborative teams on semester-long projects in collaboration with client organizations, field liaisons, and a set of multidisciplinary experts.

Perinatal Epidemiology

This course will equip participants with basic skills in the field of perinatal epidemiology and its application in the field of Maternal and Child Health. Students will work with birth and death data using SAS, SPSS or STATA to gain experience in secondary data analysis; from initial data base organization and cleaning through descriptive analysis and interpretation of the content. Topics such as proper data coding, the use of prenatal indices and an introduction to data linkage will be included.

Electronic Information Resources In The Health Sciences

Survey of electronic information resources in the health sciences, including databases and Web sources. Discussion of relevant controlled vocabularies and their use in formulating and executing search strategies. The course also includes an evidence based health care component whereby students learn to analyze critically the biomedical literature and determine reference and research relevancy.

Critical Thinking In Principles Of Human Physiology

This is a 1 credit course designed for current and former students in PGY 412G, Principles of Human Physiology. This is a companion course for PGY 412G, Principles of Human Physiology. The objective of this course is to guide students to reinforce and apply physiological concepts to real-life scenarios. Through interactive group discussion formats, students will enhance their critical thinking and problem solving skills using questions, problems and/or case studies corresponding to PGY 412G material.

Sexual Health Promotion Seminar

This course is an intensive seminar on contemporary sexual health issues. Research, theoretical, and substantive issues relevant to studying sexual health will be covered. Students will critically evaluate sexual health education programs in school and community settings, sexuality research, develop depth and breadth of understanding key issues in sexual health promotion, and learn the various forms of inquiry used in the study of human sexuality.

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