School of Medicine Departments
Jointly sponsored courses
Please note that many of these courses change quarters. You should become familiar with the Time Schedule to find out what is offered each quarter. There is a link to the time schedule from your registration page in My UW and here is a general link. Select the quarter you are interested and track the latest information on time and location of your elective here.
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/
Department of Biological Structure
B STR 531: Human Embryology and Developmental Biology (3)
This course includes classical embryology, embryonic induction, gastrulation, neural induction and patterning, organ formation, limb induction and patterning, development of head and neck. Course includes comparative development and evolution and the implications of conserved signaling mechanism. Also included is critical signaling pathways and their role in development.
Faculty: Roelink
Offered: Autumn Quarter
Note: This course is currently inactive.
B STR 580: Anatomy Teaching Practiucm (*, max 8)
Offered: By arrangement only.
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Conjoint Courses
CONJ 515: Interdisciplinary Health/Human Services in Rural Communities (1)
See Department of FAMILY MEDICINE
CONJ 516: What Every Physician Should Know About Oral Health (1)
See Department of PEDIATRICS
CONJ 520: Anatomy and Autopsy (1)
Course number changed to PATH 521.
See Department of PATHOLOGY.
CONJ 550: Clinical Infectious Diseases (3)
See Department of MEDICINE
CONJ 553: Clinical Management of HIV & STIs (3)
See Department of MEDICINE
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Department of Family Medicine
Contact: Audrey Lew, aelew@u.washington.edu
CONJ 515: Interdisciplinary Health/Human Services in Rural Communities (1)
Description: Interdisciplinary course coordinated by the Department of Family Medicine, which addresses current trends and issues of service delivery in rural communities. Demographics, economics, community structure, culture, and professional/personal issues are some of the topics discussed in a lecture-seminar and/or field trip format.
Faculty: House
Offered: Arranged
FAMED 545: Preclinical Geriatric Elective (2)
Fosters positive attitudes towards aging and older people, teaches communication skills, the normal aging process and life cycle changes, the psychosocial aspects of common aged-related pathologies and long term options through readings, site visits, interviews and discussion-seminars. Faculty: Baker, Franks
Offered: Winter
FAMED 546: Hospice Volunteer Training (1)
Using lectures, small groups, role play and readings, the course covers the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of the hospice volunteer. Students participate as hospice volunteers as part of their field experience.
Faculty: Farber
Offered: Winter
Offered jointly with MHE 517
FAMED 547: Spirituality In Medicine (2)
This course includes the examination of the beliefs, values, meaning, and spirituality of health professionals for the well-being of their patients as well as for themselves.
Faculty: Farber
Offered: Spring
Offered jointly with MHE 518
FAMED 556: Spanish For The Health Professional (1)
Goals include teaching vocabulary and pronunciation of words to conduct an interview/patient history and perform a physical examination.
Faculty: Acosta
Offered: Spring
FAMED 557: Hispanic Health and Health Care Disparities (1)
This course will provide the medical student with an introduction to the Hispanic culture and language, the history of Hispanics in the U.S., Hispanic health status issues, and effective strategies and techniques for working across cultures and linguistic barriers. The course is designed to help the learner to better understand and more effectively respond to the needs of this growing Hispanic population.
Faculty: Acosta
Offered: Spring
Objectives:
After completing this course, the learner will be able to:
- Describe the historical perspective of health care provision for Hispanics in the U.S. over the past decade, and describe the issues and barriers that this population has encountered;
- Describe the changing demographics of the Hispanic population, and the impact that the predicted population growth will have on the provision of quality health care;
- Define acculturation and the variables that affect the process, and the impact of acculturation on health outcomes;
- Compare the epidemiology of the health of immigrant and non-immigrant Hispanics;
- Explain the Hispanic perspective and cultural context of illness and health;
- Recognize the major barriers and the social determinants to health care for the Hispanic pupulation;
- Describe the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of the most common mental health conditions and illness in Hispanics;
- Describe common traditional Hispanic practices and its current use in the care of Hispanic health problems along with allopathic medicine;
- Recognize the leading causes of death and illness affecting Hispanics, and compare the current status of Hispanic health with other minority and white populations.
FAMED 560: P-Indian Health Problem-Based Learning Cases (1)
For second-year medical students. Presents common Indian health problems via problem-based learning cases over two to three days per case.
Faculty:
Ambrozy
Offered: Spring
Goals: Students will learn about common Native American health problems, how to use medical resources to solve clinical problems, and will understand how Native Americans utilize traditional Indian medicine for their health care. This course will prepare students for a required PBL course.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course students should be able to:
- Diagnose and treat common Native American health problems
- Describe some aspects of traditional Indian medicine
- Work as part of a medical team in the care of a patient
- Develop a differential diagnosis for the problem
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Contact: Julie Beschta, jbeschta@u.washington.edu
G H 501 Introduction to Global Health (1) Addresses a variety of themes in global health which serve as a base for an introductory-level understanding of the field. Emphasizes the diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on global health.
Faculty: Gonzales, Wade
Offered: Autumn
G H 502 Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health (1) Presenters from a variety of disciplines discuss their experiences working on global health issues in resource poor settings. Speakers illustrate how their work is influenced by communication, culture, economic and socio-political realities.
Faculty: Gonzales, Wade
Offered: Autumn
G H 505 P-Advanced Global Health (2)
Prepares health profession students for work in developing countries. Includes health care delivery systems, political, social, and economic determinants of health, major global health issues, and personal well-being while abroad. Lecture and seminar format with guest speakers, student presentations, and discussion. Offered: jointly with MED 560;
Faculty: Kimball
Offered: Spring
Jointly sponsored with MED 530
G H 561 Tropical Medicine (1)
Intended for professional health science students interested in learning the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and clinical presentation of disease conditions that re more commonly seen in less-developed countries, resource-limited settings, or tropical climates, and how to diagnose, treat, and follow the resolution of these diseases with commonly limited resources. Credit/no credit only.
Faculty: Buckner, Pottinger
Offered: Spring
Jointly sponsored with MED 561.
G H 562 AIDS: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Jointly offered with MED 530)(2) Comprehensive overview of the public health, clinical, and laboratory aspects of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and disease. Topics include the pathogenesis, natural history, and management of HIV infections. The impact of HIV/AIDS on community and global health care and prospects for prevention and control. Credit/no credit only. Offered: jointly with EPI 530/MED 530;
Faculty: Farquhar
Offered: Autumn.
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Department of Medicine
Contact: Barbara Daniels, bdd@u.washington.edu
CONJ 550: Clinical Infectious Diseases (3)
The course format is lectures and clinical presentations of common infectious diseases; reinforcement of basic concepts of microbial pathogenesis covered in HUBIO 534. It also includes the introduction to antibiotics and management of infectious diseases.
Faculty:
Spach
Offered: Winter
CONJ 553: Clinical Management of HIV & STIs
Intended to develop or expand skills related to providing HIV/STD healthcare through a web-based curriculum and weekly seminar. Clinicians in training are welcome, but familiarity with principles of clinical care and the ability to perform a routine history and physical examination are required. This course is restricted to 4th year medical students.
Faculty: Harrington, Marrazzo
Offered: Winter (starting 2006)
MED 530 AIDS: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Offered jointly with EPI 530 and GH 562) (2)
This course consists of a seminar format with lectures covering the epidemiology, pathogenesis, natural history, treatment, and prevention of infection by HIV. Attendance is required at all lectures, plus completion of appropriate readings prior to each lecture, and submission of one written question per lecture.
Faculty: Koutsky, Kreiss
Offered: Autumn
Also see GH 562.
MED 533: Clinical Endocrinology (2)
This course consists of lectures and patient presentations of endocrine disease, laboratory diagnosis, and therapy. Attendance at six of seven sessions is required.
Faculty: Wisse
Offered: Winter
MED 534 Wilderness Medicine (1) Website
Provides didactic and field experience in medical emergencies and situations unique to rural and wilderness settings, including, but not limited to, patient assessment, extrication, trauma, burns, water rescue,hypo/hyperthermia, toxins and high-altitude.
Faculty: Townes, Luks
Offered: Spring
MED 550: An Introduction To Emergency Medicine (1)
This course includes presentation of common medical and surgical emergencies and their urgent management, especially within the framework of rapid patient assessment and stabilization. Lecture topics include chest pain and myocardial infarction, basic arrhythmia management, and burn and wound care.
Faculty: Mengert
Offered: Currently inactive.
MED 555: Mind, Body and Pen: Writing and the Art Of Becoming a Physician (1)
This course provides forum for medical students to write about issues in medicine and medical education. It focuses on writing as a process for giving voice to the conflicting demands and dilemmas of becoming a physician. It explores personal narratives, dreams and disappointments, chronic illness and death, empathy and revulsion, authenticity and power.
Faculty: Transue
Offered: Winter
MED 556: Visual Thinking: How to Observe in Depth (1)
This course uses Visual Thinking Strategies to look at aret and enhance diagnostic acumen. The process expands observational and critical thinkking skills, and encourages open-ended discussion. Students will apply these skills in assessing patients. The course is a combination of slide sessions and observation of original objects at Seattle museums.
Faculty: Moats, Kalus
New as of March 2008.
Objectives:
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Employ an expanded vocabulary useful in visual description.
- Implement detailed observation of objects.
- Diagram their analysis through evidence and pay attention to particular details in individual artworks.
- Construct open-ended observations to puzzling artworks.
- Formulate observations from multiple perspectives in discussion and journal entries.
- Build the ability to make these observations in the presence of and in collaboration with classmates and colleges.
- Acquire critical and heuristic thinking skills.
MED 560: Advanced Global Health
This course prepares health profession students for work in developing countries. Topics include health care delivery systems, political, social, and economic determinants of health, major global health issues, and personal well-being while abroad. It is lecture and seminar format with guest speakers, student presentations, and discussion.
Faculty: Kimball/Stansfield
Offered: Winter
Jointly sponsored with GH 505
MED 561: Tropical Medicine (1)
Intended for professional health science students interested in learning the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and clinical presentation of disease conditions that are more commonly seen in less-developed countries, resource-limited settings, or tropical climates, and how to diagnose, treat, and follow the resolution of these diseases with commonly limited resources.
Faculty: Van Voorhis
Offered: Spring
Jointly sponsored with GH 561.
MED 565: The Healer’s Art: Awakening The Heart of Medicine (1)
This course encourages cultivation of the human dimensions in the practice of medicine while strengthening personal commitment to medicine as a life’s work. Recognizes the commonality of personal concern among peers and recognizes and responds to the dimension of mystery in the experience of illness. Develops the capacity for awe.
Faculty: Wicks
Offered: Winter
MED 599: Transfusion Medicine (3)
Lectures/conferences on transfusion medicine. Topics include donor testing, component testing and therapy, performance and interpretation of laboratory tests, and management of patients with transfusion problems.
Offered: Currently inactive.
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Department of Medical History and Ethics
MHE 501: Alternative Approaches To Healing (2)
This course explores philosophies and practices of the major alternative approaches to healing. Historical characterization of alternative medicine accompanied by presentations by practitioners of chiropractic, naturopathic, homeopathic, and traditional Chinese medicine. Requirements are attendance with readiness to question and comment, and submission of a two-to-four page essay elaborating on changes in understanding of and attitudes toward alternative medicine as a result of the course.
Faculty: Whorton
Offered: Offered occasionally.
MHE 511: Medical Ethics Seminar (2) website
Case studies designed to help students develop skills in the analysis of case problems in clinical medicine. Students will be required to turn in a two page case write-up or do an oral case presentation.
Faculty:
McCormick
Offered: Autumn
MHE 512: The Human Face of Medicine (2) website
The purpose of this course is to examine the foundation of human values undergirding medical practice. Inquiry will be made into the images of the physician and the motivations which lead to the choice of medicine. Students will be required to keep a journal in which to record thoughts and feelings associated with the readings and class discussions.
Faculty: McCormick
Offered: Spring
MHE 513: Ethical Responsibilities of Medical Practice (2)
Provides intensive and practical guidance about management of principal ethical and legal problems that arise in clinical practice: informed consent, confidentiality, decisions regarding life support, advance directives and surrogate decision-makers, duty to care for indigent and risky patients. Fourth-year students only. Offered: Offered occasionally.
MHE 517: Hospice Volunteer Training (1)
Using lectures, small groups, role play and readings, the course covers the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of the hospice volunteer. Students participate as hospice volunteers as part of their field experience.
Faculty: Farber
Offered: Winter
Jointly sponsored with FAMED 546
MHE 518 Spirituality in Medicine (1) website
Course examines the role of beliefs, values, meaning and spirituality for the wellbeing of patients of health care professionals, as well as for themselves.
Faculty: McCormick, Farber
Offered: Spring
Jointly sponsored with FAMED 547
MHE 521 The Ethical Challenges of Modern Medicine (3)
Case-study approach to contemporary ethical issues in medicine, utilizing techniques of ethical analysis and argument in examining actual cases arising in our pluralistic culture, where values are often in conflict. Open to graduate and professional students and others with appropriate background.
Faculty: McCormick
MHE 522 Ethical Problems Surrounding Death (3)
Issues arising in care and treatment of dying patients and their families, including truthful disclosure, use of life-supports, "euthanasia," coping with death and grief. Intersection of patient and professional values related to care in terminal phase of illness. Open to graduate and professional students and others with appropriate background.
Faculty: McCormick
MHE 523: Biomedical Ethics (3) website
The course includes selected topics in medical ethics emphasizing methods of ethical reasoning about moral dilemmas and contributions of philosophical theories and principles to practical problems of medicine. Grades will be based on class participation and a written case write-up of an ethical problem.
Faculty: McCormick
Offered: Autumn
MHE 541 Exercise in Modern Medicine (1)
The course surveys the role and place of exercise in modern medicine. This includes a historical and contemporary analysis of physical activity and sports medicine in the American health system. Presentations by clinicians about their experiences in: orthopaedics, exercise physiology, sports nutrition, sports psychology, pediatric sports medicine, special issues of female athletes, environmental medicine.
Faculty: Berryman
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Department of Neurology
NEURL 536: Topics In Clinical Neurology (1)
Lecture topics include the neurologic examination, stupor and coma, epilepsy, stroke diagnosis, treatment and prevention, dementia diagnosis and treatment, pediatric neurology, etc. Attendance at all lectures is required.
Offered: Summer
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
OB GYN 550: Voluntary Pregnancy Termination: Overview off Medical And Social Issues (2)
25 hours, or 4-5 half-days of clinic observation, + 35 hours of textbook and journal article reading, and written examination over a one-year period. Student must complete the credit by the end of the academic year enrolled; grade will be awarded the quarter of completion.
Faculty: Miller
Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
OB GYN 551: Perinatal Care Elective (1)
Provide an introduction and overview of perinatal care for first- or second-year medical students with emphasis o late third trimester, labor and delivery, and postpartum. The course offers the opportunity to observe the patient-provider relationship. There is an optional labor and delivery observation.
Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
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Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
Contact: Angela Weiss, amweiss@u.washington.edu
ORTHP 585: Sports Medicine (2)
This course is an introduction to sports medicine with a review and emphasis on its scientific foundations. Topics include biomechanics, special issues in pediatric, aging, and female athletes; respiratory and cardiovascular adaptations to exercise, nutrition and fuel utilization, and athletic injuries. Attendance at a minimum of 11 sessions is required.
Faculty: O’Kane
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Department of Pathology
PATH 521: Anatomy and Autopsy (1)
Students will view an autopsy, and learn how autopsy can help diagnose disease, determine cause of death, and improve patient care. Requirements include attendance at an orientation session, an autopsy, and a Clinical-Autopsy conference. Participants must be free at least one morning per week (M-F), in order to attend an autopsy at UWMC.
Faculty: Fligner
Offered: Winter and Spring
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Department of Pediatrics
Contact: Sara Griffin sara.griffin@seattlechildrens.org
CONJ 516: What Every Physician Should Know About Oral Health (1)
This is a didactic elective for students interested in understanding oral health and its relationship to systemic health. This will be of special interest to students planning careers in primary care, public health, or who are likely to practice in rural or underserved communities. It includes weekly seminars and clinical demonstrations. Credit/no credit only.
Faculty:
Mouradian
Offered: On occasion, Spring.
PEDS 530: Homeless Youth and Their Medical Care (1)
Clinic-based setting for seminar and interview practice with adolescents; students learn how to deal with special health problems and other related problems of "street kids" through interviews and observations. Credit/no credit only.
Faculty: Giesel
Offered: Winter
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Contact: Stephanie Shushan, shushan@u.washington.edu
PBSCI 515: War and Mental Health (1)
Examines the impact of war on mental health in both military and civilian populations. Focuses on posttraumatic stress disorder, including assessment, treatment, epidemiology, and neurobiology. Addresses psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, brain injury, and psychosocial effects.
Faculty: Kanter
Offered: Winter
Learning Objectives
The course will provide awareness of the impact of war on the mental health of both military and civilian populations.
At the conclusion of this elective students should be able to:
- Discuss posttraumatic stress disorder in detail, including assessment, treatment, epidemiology, and neurobiology.
- Describe other mental health conditions resulting from war trauma, including substance abuse and brain injury.
- Recognize the psychosocial effects of war, including unemployment, divorce, and family violence.
- Discuss readjustment and reintegration issues of returning veterans, families, and communities.
- Identify the challenges of providing of mental health services to war-affected populations.
- Describe the effects of war on especially vulnerable civilian populations - women, children, and refugees.
PBSCI 525: Psychiatry and the Law (3)
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the issues in psychology, mental health and law. Each unit will focus on various themes in forensic psychology and psychiatry.
This course shall examine the following areas: assessment (psychopathy, malingering, deception, and high risk occupations); ethical principles and professional competencies, eyewitness memory, jury selection, expert witness testimony, involuntary medication treatment of the mentally ill offender, child custody, personal injury examinations in tort cases, assessment of childhood trauma, competence to stand trial, criminal responsibility, risk assessment, sex predators, violence associated with attachment pathologies and psychology, public policy and the law. Furthermore, topics of sex-related offenses, personality disorders and the role of the mental health professional in a correctional environment will be addresses. Outside speakers will lead discussions in various topics.
Faculty: Goldenberg
Offered: Spring
Approved for non-clinical selective credit 6/8/06
Goals: Forensic psychiatry and the law issues are important to examine. Allied mental health professionals, at some point in their career, will come in contact with issues of mental health and the interaction with our legal system. The goal of this course is to bring more awareness to various issues the allied mental health professional will encounter.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course students should be able to:
- Describe assessments of the Antisocial Personality Disorder, malingering, deception, and high risk occupations
Compare and contrast ethical principles and professional competencies
Describe the differences in eyewitness testimony, expert witness testimony and jury selection
Compare and contrast child custody evaluations and personal injury examinations in tort cases
Describe involuntary medication treatment of the mentally ill
Compare and contrast competence to stand trial and criminal responsibility
Describe risk assessment in violent populations
Compare and contrast issues in mental health public policy and the law
PBSCI 560: P-Psychological Interventions for Primary Care Physicians (1)
This course focuses on the integration of primary care and mental health issues. Reading, lectures, videos, and role plays are utilized to review evidenced-based psychological interventions which can be employed in an outpatient primary care setting. The course emphasizes issues of somatization, depression, anxiety, and health behavior change.
Faculty: Kent
Offered: Spring
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UCONJOINT Courses
UCONJ 444: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teams In Health Care (1-5, max 10)
An interdisciplinary course open to students enrolled in Health Science schools. Students work in interdisciplinary teams with a problem-based learning methodology to learn more about the role of other health care providers in the care of urban and underserved patient problems.
Faculty: MWBaker
Contact: Mary Rivard, School of Nursing, maryriv@u.washington.edu
UCONJ 450: Healthcare for the Underserved Community (1)
This course is organized by the Students in the Community (SITC) organization. SITC is a multi-disciplinary effort of UW health sciences students and faculty. This course is designed to give graduate students in health sciences an introduction to the issues faced by underserved populations related to health and obtaining health care. SITC also organizes a student-run clinic at the Aloha Inn, a transitional housing facility for homeless men and women working to obtain more stable housing and employment.
Faculty: Paauw
Offered: Winter
Contact: Barbara Daniels, Department of Medicine, bdd@u.washington.edu
UCONJOINT 501: International Health (1)
See GH 501
UCONJOINT 502: International Health (1)
Currently inactive.
UCONJOINT 503: International Health (1)
See GH 502
UCONJOINT 530: Issues In Indian Health (3)
This course includes lectures and panel discussions on history, epidemiology, and management of diseases affecting Native Americans. Paper required.
Faculty: Hollow
UCONJ 531: Introduction to Mind Body Medicine—An Experiential Elective (2)
This multidisciplinary course will teach multiple techniques of self-care to early medical and graduate nursing students. By learning and applying these techniques, it is anticipated that future care providers can reduce their own dissatisfaction, prevent burnout and therefore provide better care for their patients. They will be made more aware of the mind-body connection and be armed with skills that they can then teach their patients. This course is for first and second year medical students (priority given to second year students).
Faculty: Schneeweiss, Finkelstein, Vincenzi
Offered: Autumn
Contact: Amy Bollinger abolling@u.washington.edu
UCONJ 540: Environmental Change and Human Health (1 or 2)
The rapid pace of environmental change is now impacting the health of humans. Diseases from West Nile Fever to asthma to cancer are caused--directly or indirectly--by changes in the ecosystem on which humans depend. Health professionals not only take care of patients with these diseases, but also have a responsibility to prevent or ameliorate the diseases which result. The specific learning objectives include: To understand the major threats to the ecosystem, and their current and future impact on human health; to explore the relationship of environmental health issues to clinical medicine; and to develop a personal and professional response to the issues raised in this course.
Faculty: Rosenblatt, Oberle
Offered: Winter
Contact: Audrey Lew, Family Medicine, aelew@u.washington.edu
UCONJ 555: STD/HIV Research Seminars (3)
This course is a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in specific areas of STD and HIV research. Attendance is required.
Faculty: Cavaness
Offered: Summer
Contact: Barbara Daniels, Department of Medicine, bdd@u.washington.edu
UCONJ 599: Selected Readings in Interdisciplinary Clinical Research (1, max 6) Analysis and synthesis of selected readings and works in progress related to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary clinical research. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: UCONJ 517 and permission of instructor.
Faculty: Mitchell, Marshall
Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
NOTE: Occasionally non-clinical selective course credit may be designated as one of the following, depending on course criteria and/or circumstances.
HUBIO 596: P-WWAMI Non-clinical Selectives II (variable credit)
HUBIO 598: P-WWAMI Non-Clinical Selective (variable credit)
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