Society Comm Individual III

Catalog description

This course is designed to expose students to population health, public health, the community, and delivery of health care in the community. SCI is comprised of seven themes that are threaded throughout the first two years: biostatistics, epidemiology, community, family, culture, environmental and occupational health, and Spanish. Familiarity with conversational and medical Spanish is intregrated into the cirriculum. In addition, all students will learn about the Border community and culture through field experiences and exercises. Students will also learn principles of evidence based medicine and will be given opportunities to participate in service learning projects and community based research.