Classes

History of Medicine Student-Faculty Seminar: An Optional Enrichment Elective
This elective is a new course for UMMS. The co-instructors are Ellen More, Ph.D. (Medical History/LSL/Psychiatry), Richard Glew, M.D. (Infectious Disease), and Thomas Cropley, M.D. (Dermatology). It is intended to incorporate the history of medicine into the process by which medical students engage in their own professional identity formation.

Its goals include helping students to acquire a deeper understanding of the historical context for the pressing issues of today's health care system. Today's clinician faces daily challenges to her/his best medical judgment imposed by an increasingly corporate environment for health care, by the problems of a large population of the uninsured, by an intrusive campaign to sell pharmaceuticals, and by the multiple cultures of the patient population. Through a better understanding of medical history, they can gain needed perspective on the social, professional, and moral climate in which they will be practicing. A secondary objective is to foster an open learning environment in which students of any year (first through fourth) and faculty will participate in small-group discussion collaboratively and jointly to create a collegial learning environment.

Please see our course syllabus for more information or email Ellen More.