This course is designed to be an immersive clinical experience for core principle students to introduce them to rural health. The only way to truly understand the barriers facing rural communities is to learn in an environment impacted by limited resources and transportation challenges. Students will have the opportunity to explore rural healthcare in a variety of settings including outpatient, inpatient, primary care, surgical care, subspecialty care, and home visits.

This course covers basic mechanisms that underlie many of the organ specific diseases, with a focus on biochemistry, genetics, infections, immune mechanisms of disease, inflammation and neoplasia. It will also discuss treatment of these entities and provide basic information on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.

Introduction to Clinical Medicine 1, a course of a two-semester sequence, is designed to provide first-year medical students with opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the doctor/patient relationship that are necessary to practice patient- centered care. This course will introduce students to patient-centered communication and interviewing skills, along with ethics, health equity, and behavior change topics through active learning approaches including small group discussions, clinical experiences, and practice with simulated patients (SPs).

Introduction to Clinical Medicine 1, a course of a two-semester sequence, is designed to provide first-year medical students with opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the doctor/patient relationship that are necessary to practice patient- centered care. This course will introduce students to patient-centered communication and interviewing skills, along with ethics, health equity, and behavior change topics through active learning approaches including small group discussions, clinical experiences, and practice with simulated patients (SPs).

The overall goal is for students to develop a deeper understanding of the interconnected issues that influence the health of populations and how to analyze approaches to improve health. This course uses current public health issues to understand evidence-based medicine and public health interventions.

The overall goal is for students to develop a deeper understanding of the interconnected issues that influence the health of populations and how to analyze approaches to improve health. This course uses current public health issues to understand evidence-based medicine and public health interventions.

The overall goal is for students to develop a deeper understanding of the interconnected issues that influence the health of populations and how to analyze approaches to improve health. This course uses current public health issues to understand evidence-based medicine and public health interventions.

The Behavioral Basis of Medicine delivers key concepts from Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Behavioral Science in a mostly lecture-based format. Students are introduced to psychiatric conditions, to the observations that lead to a psychiatric diagnosis, and to some of the pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial modes of treatment.

The Behavioral Basis of Medicine delivers key concepts from Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Behavioral Science in a mostly lecture-based format. Students are introduced to psychiatric conditions, to the observations that lead to a psychiatric diagnosis, and to some of the pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial modes of treatment.

The Behavioral Basis of Medicine delivers key concepts from Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Behavioral Science in a mostly lecture-based format. Students are introduced to psychiatric conditions, to the observations that lead to a psychiatric diagnosis, and to some of the pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial modes of treatment.