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Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Graduate courses in Medicine Interdisciplinary
Primarily for graduate students; undergraduates may enroll with consent of instructor.
INDE 207A. Medical Mandarin I: Beginning
Develops essential medical vocabularies and conversational communication skills. Teaches the pinyin pronunciation system, which provides an accessible method of learning basic phrases. The foundations of taking a comprehensive patient history in Mandarin and doing medical interviews at individual hospital divisions, including making introductions, soliciting symptoms, explaining health concepts (e.g. diseases and prescriptions). Main goals are to improve rapport with Chinese patients through Mandarin fluency in the medical setting and to promote understanding of Chinese culture in the context of health care. Students participating in classroom instruction only register for 1 unit. Students registering for 2 units participate in field activities as well.
1-2 units, Aut (Wang, X; So, S)
INDE 207B. Medical Mandarin II: Intermediate
For students who already have a basic command of spoken Chinese. Conversational communication skills practiced in a more advanced setting, including more sophisticated assessment of patient history and cultural components that influence diseases found in Chinese-speaking patients. Builds working vocabulary for organ system disease processes to conduct a full physical exam, and to describe treatment modalities for Chinese-speaking patients (diagnostic and therapeutic). Students participating in classroom instruction only register for 1 unit. Students registering for 2 units participate in field activities as well. Prerequisite: one semester of college-level Chinese or instructor assessment of fluency.
1-2 units, Aut (Wang, X; So, S)
INDE 207C. Medical Mandarin III: Advanced
Access advanced professional medical vocabulary, conduct medical research, and engage in discussions in Chinese. Aims at a proficiency level of medical interpreting or doing other independent work in Chinese. Students are also assisted in doing a project or projects related to a specific field of medicine. Students participating in classroom instruction only register for 1 unit. Students registering for 2 units participate in project activities as well. Prerequisite: Completion of Medical Mandarin II, or advanced Chinese proficiency.
1-2 units, Aut (Wang, X; So, S)
INDE 208C. Medical Mandarin III: Advanced
Access advanced professional medical vocabulary, conduct medical research, and engage in discussions in Chinese. Aims at a proficiency level of medical interpreting or doing other independent work in Chinese. Students are also assisted in doing a project or projects related to a specific field of medicine. Students participating in classroom instruction only register for 1 unit. Students registering for 2 units participate in project activities as well. Prerequisite: Completion of 207C, or advanced Chinese proficiency.
1-2 units, Win (Wang, X; So, S)
INDE 209C. Medical Mandarin III: Advanced
Access advanced professional medical vocabulary, conduct medical research, and engage in discussions in Chinese. Aims at a proficiency level of medical interpreting or doing other independent work in Chinese. Students are also assisted in doing a project or projects related to a specific field of medicine. Students participating in classroom instruction only register for 1 unit. Students registering for 2 units participate in project activities as well. Prerequisite: Completion of 208C or advanced Chinese proficiency.
1-2 units, Spr (Wang, X; So, S)
INDE 212. The Human Condition: Medicine, Arts, and Humanities
The interdisciplinary field of medical humanities: the use of the arts and humanities to examine medicine in personal, social, and cultural contexts. Topics include the doctor/patient relationship, the patient perspective, the meaning of doctoring, and the meaning of illness. Sources include visual and performing arts, film, and literary genres such as poetry, fiction, and scholarly writing. Designed for medical students in the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration, but all students are welcome.
2 units, Spr (Zaroff, L; Shafer, A)
INDE 213. Medical Tai Chi
Tai chi as a recognized form of complimentary and alternative medicine. Intended to promote student health and well-being and to decrease stress, depression, and anxiety through the practice of tai chi. Weekly practices under the instruction of world-renowned 20th generation tai chi expert, Master Shu Dong Li. Analysis of the literature regarding health benefits of tai chi.
2 units, Aut (Andrews, J; LeBaron, S), Win (Andrews, J; LeBaron, S), Spr (Andrews, J; LeBaron, S)
INDE 226. History of Medicine Online
Via Internet. Topics include: ancient medicine, Egypt and Babylonia, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 18th-century schools of thought, and technological medicine. Sources include Kleinman's core clinical functions, and text, pictures, hypertext links, and sound clips. See http://cwp.stanford.edu.
1 unit, Aut (Shafer, A), Win (Shafer, A), Spr (Shafer, A)
INDE 227. Careers in Medicine: Clinical Medicine and the Biomedical Sciences at the Cutting Edge
Open to medical students, graduate and undergraduate students. Interactive, seminar-style sessions expose students to diverse career opportunities and the challenges of developing work-life balance in medicine. Recognized experts in clinical medicine and biomedical research who have been innovators in their careers discuss their work, decision-points in their career pathways, and lifestyle aspects of their choices.
1 unit, Spr (Gesundheit, N)
INDE 238. Current Concepts and Dilemmas in Genetic Testing
(Same as GENE 238.) Issues arising from the translational process from research to commercialization. Diagnostic inventions and applications, community implications, newborn screening, cancer genetics, and pharmacogenomics. Guest experts. For M.D., biomedical graduate, and genetic counseling students.
2 units, Spr (Tobin, S; Schrijver, I; Cowan, T; Magnus, D)
INDE 244. Ethnicity and Medicine
Weekly lecture series introduces basic information about ethnic and cultural factors that impact patient care. Presents information about culturally sensitive health care services and addresses contemporary research issues involving minority and underserved populations. Topics include health care issues and indigenous medical practices of African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, immigrants and refugees in both urban and rural settings. One unit for weekly lectures only; two units require additional discussions facilitated by course director; three units (non-medical graduate students and undergraduates) require weekly response papers and a research paper.
1-3 units, Spr (Garcia, R)
INDE 245. Women and Health Care
Lecture and seminar series. Topics of interest to women as health care consumers and providers. The historical role of women in health care; current and future changes.
1-2 units, Aut (Grudzen, M; LeBaron, S; Massion, C)
INDE 253. Rural Health with a Global Perspective
Health status of the population, availability of health services and institutions, personal and environmental factors affecting health and medical care, and present and future models for change. Three-day field trip to San Joaquin Valley and mountain sites.
3-5 units, Spr (Staff)
INDE 256. Current Controversies in Women's Health
(Same as OBGYN 256, HUMBIO 125.) Interdisciplinary. Focus is on the U.S. Topics include: health research; bioethical, legal, and policy issues; scientific and cultural perspectives; social influences; environmental and lifestyle effects on health; and issues related to special populations. Guest lecturers; student debates. Prerequisite: Human Biology core or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
3 units, Spr (Jacobson, M; Stefanick, M)
INDE 262A. Providing and Evaluating Health Education for Underserved Children
(Same as HUMBIO 121A.) A service learning experience in community health. Students participate in developing health education materials for underserved middle school students based on principles of human biology and health science ; become knowledgeable about logic modes and other evaluation tools available for evaluating health education modules and community intervnetions; develop an implementation and evaluation plan. Prequisite for undergraduates: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
3 units, Aut (Rodriguez, E; Morioka-Douglas, N)
INDE 262B. Providing and Evaluating Health Education for Underserved Children
(Same as HUMBIO 121B.) Students implement the health education activities/modules developed in INDE 262A/HUMBIO 121A, solicit evaluative feedback, and present the outcomes.
3 units, Win (Rodriguez, E; Morioka-Douglas, N)
INDE 283I. Early Clinical Experience in International Family and Community Medicine
(Same as INDE 183I.) (Graduate students register for 283I.) For preclinical medical students; undergraduates by special arrangement. Interactive early clinical experience with physicians, community leaders, health care workers, and patients in Mexico, India, China, or Tibet. Emphasis is on community health from local and global perspectives. Social, political, historical, and economic backgrounds of the country and local region. Non-western attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding health care, including herbal and other complementary medicine; local institutions and infrastructure including schools, social services, and the public health care system; and policies that impact health and the provision of care. Prerequisites: conversational Spanish for Mexico; for medical students, completion of first year; for undergraduates, junior standing or higher. Undergraduates apply through International Alliance in Service and Education (IASE) for Mexico; Volunteers in Asia (VIA) for Asian sites. Medical students
6-12 units, Aut (LeBaron, S), Win (LeBaron, S), Spr (LeBaron, S), Sum (LeBaron, S)
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