Course Detail
Units:
2.0
Course Components:
Seminar
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: This course is best suited for fourth-year medical students heading into residency, but would be open, as space allows, to other students who have completed at least 3 clerkship rotations.
Description
We will explore how ethics and humanities intersect with health and medicine and how creative and scholarly work outside of medicine can greatly influence clinical practice . The concepts of ethics and humanities both will be broadly construed to include law, social sciences, fine and performing arts, and other disciplines. Students with a general interest in learning more about how creative and scholarly work outside of medicine can greatly influence clinical practice are encouraged to enroll. We will be piloting a longitudinal, asynchronous schedule and “selective” approach. This means that enrolled students will select 10 learning activities—readings, lectures, performances, etc.—from a curated list provided by the instructors. Each learning activity will be followed by a brief reflection that requires interaction with another participant. For example, students may be asked to interview another audience member at a public lecture about their response to the content.