Course: C310 Health Disparities in Communities
Author: Fleming-Moran,
Millicent
School: Indiana University - Bloomington
Department/Program: Applied Health Science
Sub Area/Speciality: Epidemiology
Year: 2004
Portfolio Objective/Abstract:
Health Disparities in Communities is a recent multidisciplinary course offered by Applied Health Sciences as an elective for junior-senior pre-health professional undergraduates. Course goals include: 1) enhancing a student's cultural sensitivity and competency, 2) teaching students the costs of cultural blindness in terms of poor patient-provider trust, inappropriate care and outcomes, & increased costs, and 3) encouraging students to apply these socio-cultural elements to various levels of decision-making needed to reduce health disparities. I have been working on improving and evaluating the first learning goal, and exploring ways (qualitative and quantitative) to evaluate a student's growth in cross-cultural sensitivity. A major teaching goal is to move health-professions students away from factual, clinical approaches to presenting cases, toward critically assessing how their own, their patients, and even institutional cultures ways of interacting and health outcomes. A major aim of this portfolio is to elicit suggestions and comments from health and liberal arts faculty, as well as recent graduates, on ways to achieve this first goal.
Type of Portfolio: Benchmark
Evidence of Student Learning in the Portfolio: Examples of Student Work
Size of Class: 30 to 49
Type of Student: Major and Non-Majors
Level of Course: third-year
Type of Course: Major/discipline
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