Otherwise, the lectures will include didactic sessions in physiology, patient cases and medical ethical questions to be discussed. The course uses literature to construct the theory and probe the practice of Western medicine. Particular attention to analyzing the methodology that shapes a variety of pathographies. Styron s Darkness Visible. This course has two components, the classroom and clinics and hospitals.
Students prepare a seminar on an ethical topic of their choosing.
In clinics and hospitals in the Charlotte area, students observe typically eight medical practices and write both descriptive and reflective summaries of their activities. An introduction to the interdisciplinary nature of ethical thinking and decision making in health care. Externship activities include observing on clinical rounds, attending departmental educational conferences, journal clubs and Grand Rounds, spending one or more nights at the hospital on call with resident physicians, doing administrative projects, etc. The History of Medicine is designed as a survey introduction to the history of health and disease in the west since 1750. It requires no advanced knowledge of either medicine or history.