This course is designed to introduce students to kinesiology and health promotion while assisting in the adjustment to academic life at the University of Kentucky. Through lectures, discussions, exercises, and out-of-class assignments, KHP 151 provides students the basic tools associated with succeeding in higher education.
The specialty of Family Medicine has a long history of caring for people of all ages in their communities. This course will provide students with unique experiences in a rural community so that they may better understand the "art of doctoring" and the role of a physician leader. This course is specially designed for members of the Rural Physician Leadership Program but would benefit all physicians-in-training.
This course provides intermediate instruction in a less commonly taught language. Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, as appropriate, will be stressed. Students may not repeat this course under the same subtitle.
An examination of the basic principles of the two major traditions of medical geography: disease ecology and medical care. Examined are the etiology, diffusion, and distribution of selected major diseases. Issues pertaining to the spatial-temporal distribution, accessibility and utilization of medical care resources are presented.
Narrative Medicine promotes a collaborative alliance of provider and patient that can improve care and satisfaction for both patient and provider. This course will examine and apply narrative methods to engage patients' stories and lives through clinical visits, course readings, written exercises, reflections, and critiques.
Dental implantology has become an integral part of dental services. This course contains information on patient centered criteria for implant services, surgical considerations, and prosthetically driven treatment results. The student will have the opportunity to familiarize him/herself with the components used in providing such treatment through a hands-on laboratory session and using digital dentistry in the diagnosis and treatment planning for single implant crown and implant retained overdenture.
In this four week rotation, students will learn the philosophy and clinical practice of integrative medicine. Integrative Medicine emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between the patient and the physician and utilizes all modalities, both conventional and alternative. Learning will take place via readings, videos, online course modules, patient encounters, and experiential sessions. Hence students will have an in-depth and hands-on introduction to the field.
This course focuses on information and communication technologies utilized for the advancement of evidence-based nursing, in varied practice settings and with diverse populations. Knowledge and skills necessary to participate in analyzing, planning, implementing, and evaluating healthcare information technologies will be explored. Emerging topics pertaining to health IT: new technologies, regulations, ethics, safety, and patient/community engagement will be covered.
For most people, social media has become a place for news, networking, and keeping in touch. Today's arts organizations have a golden opportunity to tap into this hybrid form of word-of-mouth marketing to promote their own brands, share news and events, and tap into the wants and needs of their patrons and donors. In this course, students will learn the foundations of social media marketing through platform selection, content management, and posting techniques.
In this course, the discipline of anthropology provides the framework for the study of aging in cross-cultural perspective. Aging is a universal human phenomenon and a basic and inevitable biological reality, but the social and cultural experience of aging varies a great deal cross-culturally. Culture shapes biology and this cultural variation provides the topic of this course. What does it mean to get older in our own and other cultures? We will begin with the global demography of the world's elderly population.
