Course Description

Introduction to the biomedical sciences and their application to the practice of clinical medicine. How doctors think about their patients’ problems, make clinical decisions on their behalf, and gauge the success of their interventions through lectures, interactions with physicians and practitioners, and visits to area hospitals and medical laboratories,. Diagnostic reasoning and the tension between the objective nature of biomedicine that physicians favor and the subjective nature of health and illness that patients experience. Alternative therapies, such as acupuncture and mind-body techniques.

Basic Enrollment Requirements: High School students will be prompted to submit an additional application after enrollment including: a high school transcript, letter of recommendation, parental permission, and other required consent forms.

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Remission Eligible: Not eligible.