BSOM HSS M1 Year Curriculum
| Course | Activity | Description | HSS Topic | Instructional/Assessment Method | IHI Module |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations of Doctoring | QI Olympics | Interprofessional workshop where medical and nursing students apply skills in value-based care using educational gaming before translating to authentic clinical cases | - Quality Improvement - Interprofessional Teams - Value Based Healthcare | - Workshop - Online Modules | QI 101-103 |
| Foundations of Doctoring | Patient Navigation Experience | Students shadow a patient and their family from check-in to check-out through a care experience, documenting every detail in the care delivery process. | - Health Care Delivery - Patient Experience | - Online Module - Experiential Activity - Patient Navigation Presentation - Large and Small Group Discussion and Debrief - Written Observation Report | PFC 201 |
| Foundations of Doctoring | Introduction to Systems of Care | The Chief Medical Officer of the healthcare system presents an overview of the US healthcare system. | - Health Care Structures and Processes | - Didactic - Large Group Discussion | |
| Foundations of Doctoring | Fundamentals of Teamwork | A healthcare leader provides an overview and application of teamwork principles. | - Teamwork and communication | - Didactic - Large Group Discussion | |
| Foundations of Doctoring | Introduction to patient centered care | While teaching learners the art of history taking, students are instructed on the principles of cultural competence and patient and family centered care using a partnership model to improve health. | - Patient Experience | - Online Module - Large Group Discussion - Standardized Patient Interviews - Written Documentation | PFC 101 |
| Foundations of Doctoring | PBL Case | Using problem-based learning cases with the specific objectives of patient safety and medical error, students analyze poor communication and system failure. | - Patient Safety - Health Care Structures and Processes | - Online Module - PBL Case, Small Group Discussion - Presentation of identified learning objectives | PS 101-102 |
| Foundations of Doctoring | Interprofessional Shadowing Experience | Students shadow interprofessional teams in the clinical environment to understand the roles of other health professionals. | - Interprofessional Teams - Health Care Structures and Processes | - Experiential Activity - Written Reflection - Small and Large Group Debrief | |
| Foundations of Doctoring | “First Five Minutes” Simulation | Students engage in a simulation of an emergent situation that focuses on team-based care | - Teamwork - Communication | - Simulation - Small Group Debrief | |
| ANAT 8100 | Human Gross Anatomy Lab | Utilizes small groups of learners (3-4) for cadaveric dissections in the anatomy lab. Each small group creates a team charter to identify team goals, responsibilities, and conflict resolution | - Teamwork - Communication | - Small Group Cadaveric Dissections - Narrative Evaluation - Team Charter | |
| Medical Physiology | Simulation Lab (trauma/shock case) | In the Sim lab, students engage in an in-person clinical scenario centered on trauma-induced shock. This exercise involves clinical informatics and health technology, social determinants of health (based on the scenario provided), leadership as well as team-based care, effective communication between health care providers and (simulated) patient, and a systems approach with systems thinking. | - Clinical informatics and health technology - Population, public and social determinants of health - Leadership - Teaming - Communication - Systems approach with systems thinking | Large Group Review Session | |
| Medical Physiology | Spirometry Lung Function Lab | In the Spirometry lab, students perform individual lung function testing in small groups. This exercise involves clinical informatics and health technology, team-based care, effective communication, and a systems approach with systems thinking. | - Clinical informatics and health technology - Teaming - Communication - Systems approach with systems thinking. | - Small Group Debriefing - Large Group Review Session | |
| Medical Physiology | Flipped classroom, student-led ‘bench to bedside’ presentations | These presentations, guided by the faculty but given by the students, involve aspects of health care structure and process, economics, clinical informatics and health technology, social determinants of health, value in health care, leadership and teamwork, effective communication, and a systems approach with systems thinking. | - Health care structure and process - Health care policy and economics - Clinical informatics and health technology - Population science and social determinants of health - Value in health care; - Leadership - Teaming - Communication - Systems approach with systems thinking | - Small Group Debriefing | |
| Medical Microbiology and Immunology | Peer Instruction | Hepatitis Case with Part I focusing on diagnostic principles and Part II focusing on the public health service response | - Interprofessional Teams - Health Care Structure and Processes - Teamwork - Communication | - Case-based large group peer instruction - Assessed on exam | |
| Medical Microbiology and Immunology | Peer Instruction | Outbreak case with Part I focusing on diagnostic principles and Part II focusing on the public health service response | - Interprofessional Teams - Health Care Structure and Processes - Teamwork - Communication | - Case-based large group peer instruction - Assessed on exam | |
| FNDN 8000 | Simulation Laboratory Exercise | Students engage in a simulation scenario facilitated by clinical and basic science facilitators involving a septic shock due to an infection from a foley placed during a previous hospital stay. | - Teaming - Leadership - Health system improvement | - Pre-work - Pre-brief - Simulation - Small group debrief | |
| FNDN 8000 | Tuskegee Case Study (in antimicrobial section) | Students will learn about the Tuskegee study, linking study parameters to antimicrobial action and pharmacotherapeutic use. | - Public Health - Social determinants of health - Ethics and legal | - Lecture - Case-study review - Turning Point (Point Solutions) questions | |
| Society, Culture, and Health Systems Course (Ethics II) (M1-M2 Years) | Society, Culture, and Health Systems course | A sixteen-week course that examines health systems, with an emphasis on public health organization and delivery of medical care in the United States. Students explore the complex factors that affect health, how medicine is organized to address health, the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. health care system, and the role of the profession in addressing health issues. | - Health Care Structure and Processes - Health Care Delivery - Population health - Policy and advocacy - Healthcare economics - Social Determinants of Health - Teamwork - Ethics & Legal | - Large group didactic and discussion - Small group discussion - Community Health Assessment Project (Group Project and Poster Presentation) - Reflective Writing - SODH Poverty Simulation | TA 101 |