HSC 500: HEALTH, SCIENCES AND SOCIETY

http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/shtm/courses-notes/HSC500/hsc_500.htm

Health, Sciences and Society is a new, HSC-wide course designed both to introduce students training for different health professions to a set of core disciplines and to introduce them to each other. It includes study of areas of common concern - health economics, scope of practice, ethics, law, communication, health policy, public health, healthcare informatics - and will have students working collaboratively to address practical problems of health care delivery.

In addition to its interprofessional focus, the course will involve some other unique features.

a.      It will begin (2/1) and end (4/2) with two all-day programs on Sunday, February 5 and Sunday 4/2 at the Setauket Neighborhood House off the Mill Pond in Setauket. Directions are below. Attendance at the two full-day retreats is required.

b.      Classes will meet weekly for three hours. Each will involve a lecture and small group work. A course calendar is below and on the web. All classes will meet at 5:15 pm.  Location is HSC lecture hall 5, level 3.

c.      Interprofessional teams of students will work on an independent project dealing with one of six topics: Hospice/Palliative Care; Media/Technology and Health Care; Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Health Promotion/Disease Prevention; International Health; Public Health/Bioterrorism.

d.      Faculty mentors with a wide variety of backgrounds and from all five HSC schools will teach the course and serve as mentors for the projects. They are listed below.

Readings: The course readings will be drawn from the HSC 500 Reader and from the Internet.

·        We will provide students with the HSC 500 Reader on the first night of class, Wednesday, 2/1.  HSC Lecture hall 5, level 3.

·        There will be assignments from the Internet so access to a computer is essential. Computers are available at the HSC Library, as is instruction on how to use them. You should begin by looking at the HSC 500 website - http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/shtm/courses-notes/HSC500/hsc_500.htm

·        And refer to it weekly. Much of the business of the course will take place by e-mail.   The first reading assignment for HSC 500 is located on the web at: http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/shtm/courses-notes/HSC500/hsc_500.htm

The set of assigned readings should be mastered before each class session. Discussion and lecture will draw extensively upon them. Additional readings are sometimes recommended, either because they deal with the topic more deeply or because they shed light on an aspect of it not highlighted in the assigned material.

If you have any condition, such as physical or mental disability, which will make it difficult for you to carry out the work for this course or which will require an adjustment in the course requirements or process, please notify us so we may make appropriate accommodations.

If you have questions or need further information, please feel free to contact the   Course Director, Kayla Mendelsohn, Dean's Office, School of Health Technology       and Management, HSC 2L-400; kmendelsohn@stonybrook.edu or contact                   Maria Savona, maria.savona@stonybrook.edu at 444-2252 or Margaret Sheryll, margaret.sheryll@stonybrook.edu at 444-9713.

Updated information can be found on the HSC 500 Website at http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/shtm/courses-notes/HSC500/hsc_500.htm 

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