Course Descriptions

Whatever is real has a meaning.
- Michael Oakeshott, philosopher

University Studies 5:	Wounded Storytellers: Narratives Of Illness In Literature (1999-2000)
Medicine 501A,B,C Course Component:	Patient Doctor I Required Medical Humanities Component And Linked Literature And Medicine Elective (1999-2001)
Medicine 519A,B,C Course Component:	Patient-Doctor II Required Medical Humanities Component and Linked Literature And Medicine Elective (1999-2001)
Medicine 528:	Humanism through Humanities: Third Year Pediatric Clerkship (Current)
Medicine 535 Course Component:	Medical Science, Medical Humanities, and the Quest for Empathy, Third Year Internal Medicine Clerkship (1997-Current)
Medicine 597 Course Component:	The Patient's Voice: Family Medicine Third Year Clerkship (Current)
Humanities Elective Course:	Medical Humanities 3rd and 4th Year Elective (Current)
Literature And Medicine Selective:	Patient Stories/Doctor Stories: Understanding the doctor-patient relationship and the patient's experience of illness through literature, 1st And 2nd Year Selective (2001-Current)
Creative Writing Elective:	Creative Writing For Medical Students: A New Tool For Understanding Patients (2002-Current)
Humanities Consultation:	Through The Patient's Eyes: 4th Year Humanities Consultation (2002-Current)
Family Medicine Residency Course:	The Uses of Literature in Behavioral Science Training (1999-Current)
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Course:	Rehabilitation of Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Humanities Component of the PM&R Rotation (2000-Current)
Family Nurse Practitioner Program:	Exploring the Cross-Cultural Clinician-Patient Encounter Through Literature (1999-Current)
Family Nurse Practitioner Program:	Can Poetry Improve the Difficult Clinician-Patient Relationship? (1999-Current)