MEDICINE 9408      Pharmacology
10 credit hours/2 months. Introduces the study of the interaction of drugs with biological systems. Provides the medical student with relevant basic pharmacology of the model drugs under clinical investigation and in use today. Includes extensive small group activities
Credits: 10 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9471      Family Medicine
5 credit hours/1 month. Exposes students to the unique specialty that focuses on the family. Students experience the act of medicine as well as science, working with patients in the context of their family and community. Includes care of the child, the adolescent, pregnant women, young and middle aged adults, and the elderly. Addresses ambulatory medicine, prevention and health maintenance.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9472      Behavioral Science In Medicine
5 credit hours/1 month. Teaches the basic taxonomy, assessment methods and treatment interventions of chemical dependence and major psychiatric disorders. Serves as preparation for the psychiatry rotation. Examines relevant ethical issues commonly faced in current medical practice. Utilizes case studies and a problem-centered approach in addition to clinical experience including home health care visits, supervised interviewing, and time on an inpatient chemical dependency unit. Challenges the student to achieve an integrated theoretical understanding of various approaches in behavioral sciences as a background for meeting patients needs. Teaches communication skills including education of older patients.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9482      Patient, Physician, Society I
2 credit hours/Fall semester. Introduces students to a 7-week unit emphasizing medical decision making.Introduces students to a 6-week unit which focuses on public health. Activities include lecture, problem sets, small group projects.
Credits: 2 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9483      Continuing Care Clinic
5 credit hours/half-day per week except during vacation or out-of-town electives. Provides ambulatory and continuous care experience in general medicine clinics. The docent teams are assigned to a clinic in which students see and follow a panel of patients on a continuous basis for up to four years, where necessary, under the supervision of docents. Provides continuity of care from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient care, allowing longitudinal experience for the student and personalized care for the patients. Allows students to observe the natural progression of disease and experience the rewards and challenges of an ongoing doctor-patient relationship.
Credits: 0-5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9483RC      Year Four Repeat Clinic
Prerequisite: Year 3 clinic
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9484      Patient, Physician, Society II
2 credit hours/spring semester. Introduces students to a unit emphasizing medical ethics and palliative care. Activities include lecture, small group sessions, and assigned readings.
Credits: 2 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9485      Ambulatory Care Pharmacology
2 credit hours/independent study during spring semester of Year 4. Consists of a self-paced, independent learning, computer-based instruction. Focuses on integration of patient-related data with basic science data. Students obtain skills in assessing patient risk or disease staging and selecting appropriate pharmacotherapy based on such information. The selected topics focus on outpatient pharmacotherapy of common disease states for which there are established treatment guidelines, such as hypertension, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, asthma, pain, and hyperlipidemia.
Credits: 2 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9487      Extended Clinic II
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9501      Internal Medicine/Docent Instruction Yr 5
Students spend this two-month rotation on the medical wards at Truman Medical Center, each working as an integral member of a docent team that includes the docent, residents and attending health care staff. Year 3 and 5, Year 4 and 6 students are paired together in the junior-senior partnership. Rounds, conference and consultations. Year 5.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9503      Pediatrics Rotation
This two-month rotation is designed to help students master t skills necessary in assessing normal and abnormal development and behavioral variation in the newborn, infant and child in the outpatient clinical setting. History-taking and physical examination of infants, children and adolescents are emphasized. Year 4.
Credits: 10 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9503BR      Peds Rotation
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9505      General Surgery Rotation
10 credit hours/2 months. Introduces students to the field of general surgery. Emphasizes the indications, contraindications, types of operative management, and the mortality and morbidity of various operations. Involves the student in several different kinds of learning experiences, such as preoperative and postoperative care, work in the operating room, outpatient clinic visits, night call, student conferences and resident conferences. Covers skills in surgical scrub, putting on gown and gloves, knot tying, vena puncture, proctoscopy, and suturing of the skin. Students assist in performing skills such as insertion of CVP catheters, insertion of a chest tube, thoracentesis, paracentesis and Swan-Ganz catheters.
Credits: 10 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9506      Obstetrics-Gynecology Rotation
10 credit hours/2 months. Provides the student with an opportunity to gain basic competence in obstetrics and gynecology, including proficiency in the history and physical examination related to the obstetric and gynecologic patient. Emphasizes outpatient gynecology, family planning and techniques for early detection of gynecologic cancer. Provides basic information in reproductive physiology and endocrinology, infertility, gynecologic oncology, and the psychologic aspect of diseases of women. Covers concepts of prenatal care and fundamentals of normal labor and delivery, and pregnancy complications.
Credits: 10 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9506BR      Obset-Gynecol Rotation
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9514      Medicine, War & the Arts
This course considers the continually evolving relationship between medicine, war, and the arts, from the slaughter of the American Civil War(1861-65) to today?s conflicts in Iraq. Our focus is on the extraordinary difficult medical and ethical decisions faced by physicians in times of war, and the ways in which those experiences are reflected in the arts. Topics include the effects of disease on armies, biological warfare, the development of ambulance and hospital services in the Civil War, battlefield medicine, the diagnosis and treatment of shellshock victims in WWI, chemical warfare, the pioneering of plastic surgery, triage techniques in WWII, nuclear warfare, and the personal experiences of physicians in the Vietnam and Iraq wars.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9515      Medicine and Music
This course will explore ways in which music and medicine interact, including the following topics: therapeutic applications of music (music therapy), current research on how the brain processes music, the treatment of medical themes (including illness and disease, patients, physicians, and human experimentation) in musical works, and how certain composers? medical conditions affected their creative output.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9516      Medicine and Film
Movies are narratives that record, instruct, motivate, entertain and transform. This course investigates the ways in which physicians, patients, and medical students have been portrayed in Hollywood films over the course of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Compassion, idealism, and heroism were common traits in early doctor moviesbut there was also a recurrent theme of the greedy callous doctor who valued research over patient welfare, and profits over ethics. We discuss how films reflected, changed,and molded perceptions of physicians and patients in the past, and examine whatcontemporary portrayals of the medical profession can tell us about the expectations andfears of patients today.
Credits: hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9517      Medicine and Literature
The aim of this course is to engage students in the process of self-reflection about their roles as health care professionals through the lens of literature. Reading about the ways in which people interact with professionals, patients, and disease can enrich our understanding of cultural, economic, and social issues. Medical literature is a diverse field and it increases our awareness of the different reactions to medicine and illness. This course is intended to improve our empathy for patients and peers.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top

MEDICINE 9518      Medicine, Law and Bioethics
5 credit hours toward the M.D. degree. Lecture, discussion and writing about legal and ethical issues related to the practice of medicine. For students in Year 6, it not only fulfills the requirement for a Medical Humanities course in year 5 or 6 but also offers preparation for the assumption of the responsibilities of the M.D. degree.
Credits: 5 hours
back to top