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Fourth Year Medical Student Electives: (MS4)

We offer three sections of intensive electives for advanced students that explore the arts and humanities.  (INT MED 7992):

“Writing the Doctor-Patient Relationship”: Transition to Residency through Reflective Writing (Susan Sample, PhD, MFA)

  • Read and respond to personal essays, prose, and poetry on doctoring and the doctor-patient relationship
  • Reflect on ethical and moral dilemmas common in residency
  • Learn writing skills to help you develop as a professional
  • Exercise your right brain; be creative!

“Imagining Medicine”  (Gretchen Case, PhD)

  • What might medicine look like hundreds of years from now?
  • How has today’s medicine been imagined in the past?
  • Explores the past, present, and future of medicine through films and texts, ranging from science journalism to science fiction, with points of view from inside and outside of the medical professions.
  • Of particular interest to future administrators, researchers, and any student who wants to look at medicine from a broad and creative perspective.  

“Art and Medicine”   (Gretchen Case, PhD)

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  • Thinking about medicine through art.
  • Creating art that reflects on medicine.
  • Understanding the creation of art as a method of inquiry.
  • Of particular interest to students specializing in dermatology, radiology, and internal medicine as well any student who wants to improve and explore visual diagnosis skills and creative approaches to medicine.

Interprofessional Education Electives:  IPE courses

Health Law for Non-Lawyers  (UUHSC 6810 and UUHSC 6811)

This course is designed to introduce a variety of issues concerning health law to

professionals in health care, such as nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. We realized through our work teaching medical students that there was a hunger for more curricular content in health law.  This course will provide a forum for unique interdisciplinary education, where students can explore differences in their professional ethics and norms. While the focus of the course is health law, where possible, the instructors will draw their cases from legal issues arising in genetic medicine. Specifically, the course will cover topics such as:

  • Informed consent,
  • Standards for medical malpractice,
  • The confidentiality of genetic information,
  • The duty to treat,
  • The use of genetic data in reproductive decision-making, and
  • Physician-assisted suicide.

The course will be offered annually by Dr. Leslie Francis JD PhD and Professor Teneille Brown JD.