Course participants will, in turn, train high school students in the basic techniques of blood pressure screening at high school athletic events and other selected locations in the community. The course's faculty and students will work together to develop a knowledge of continuous improvement precesses and will apply them during blood pressure measurement and implementation of screening events. 2-3 s.h., Spring. Building Health Urban Communities. Health issues are examined from an ecological systems approach.
Emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary team approach to priority community health issues.
Students gain experience in community-responsive care, community health planning and epidemiology, cultural diversity, and interdisciplinary collaboration. 1-3 s.h., Summer. Exploring the Human Condition Through Literature and Film. This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the relation between health care and the human condition through literature and film. Themes of study include the clinical practice environment, states of perception and being, death and dying, plagues and epidemics, medicine and the state, psychiatric illness, and the holocaust.