It meets one afternoon per week, for one hour. The class is limited to 15 students.
Students earn one unit of elective credit.
Students are expected to attend class, participate in class discussions, read required reading material prior to class, and submit a 3 to 5 page typed essay paper on assigned topic by the end of last day of class. This is a combined business, laws and public policy, and ethics course for medical students to explore issues facing practicing physicians today and to encourage students to think about positioning careers for the future. This course gives students a framework for analysis to help students analyze the changing health care delivery system in the United States. Small group problem-based learning techniques are used in this course. Students will examine language used in the managed care industry and what such terms mean to physicians, such as various acronyms like HMO, PPO, TPA, MSO, IPA, PPMC, TQM, CQI, UM, UR, QA, IDS, etc.