Society, Community & Individual I

Catalog description

SCI has four required components: 1) Social Foundations of Medicine, 2) Introduction to Clinical Research, 3) Community Health Experience, and 4) Conversational and Medical Spanish. Students are exposed to population health, public health, the community & delivery of health care systems. Course themes include: biostatistics, epidemiology, community family, culture, environmental & occupational health and Spanish (conversational & medical Spanish integrated in curriculum). Field experiences provide exposure to the Border community & culture. Students learn principles of evidence based medicine & have opportunities to participate in service learning projects and community based research.