T1 MEDICINE ELECTIVES

• Culinary Medicine in Practice
• Emergency Medical Services
• Emergency Medicine Volunteering
• Entrepreneurship in Bioscience
• Healthcare for the Urban Underserved
• Medical Humanities
• Mind-Body Medicine: An Experiential Elective Focusing on Mindy-Body Skills
• Out in the Field with Geriatrics
• Sexual Health for the Health Care Provider
• Aditional Contact Information

 

Course Overview

Intro to pre-hospital emergency medicine, pt. assessment, and pre-hospital treatment of various trauma & medical related problems are taught. Upon completion, medical students are prepared to sit for national registry testing.

Goals and Objectives

Syllabus

Contact Information

Course Director: Dr. Norman McSwain, Jr., MD, FACS
Contact:  Randy Williams
Email:  rowilli2000@yahoo.com
Office:
Office Phone:  (504) 988-2212
Fax:  (504) 988-2860

Department website

Enrollment: Elective is open to T1s and T2s. 15-30 students.

Time of course: Monday and Wednesday from 6:00pm to 10:00pm

Sessions: 1 and 2; 3 and 4

Prerequisite:  Healthcare provider CPR

Not offered Spring 2013

Course Overview

Students will become familiar with the specialty of Emergency Medicine through observation and limited hands-on Emergency Department experience. Students are encouraged to participate in patient care in three ways: learning the basic approach to the emergency patient, contributing to resident and staff discussions of basic anatomy and physiology with knowledge obtained from studies of the first or second year level of medical school, and assisting in such procedures as starting IVs, drawing blood, etc. when appropriate. They will interact with emergency medicine faculty and residents in the ED and discuss patient management and emergency medicine principles.

Goals and Objectives

Syllabus

Contact Information

Course Director: Jennifer Avegno, MD
Alternate Email: javegn@lsuhsc.edu
Office:
Office Phone:
Fax:

Enrollment: 2 students per session; T-1, T-2

Time of course: 3 5-hour blocks

• Sessions 3 and 4
  

Grading policy: Pass or Fail

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN BIOSCIENCE:  A New Way of Inventing

Course Overview

Entrepreneurship in the biosciences can be taught and it should be an intricate part of the education of bioscientists, engineers, and physicians.....especially since these core disciplines have been the major components in the revolution of business and technology.

The course explores: the major economic and technological developments that are shaping the world, how to develop and sustain a competitive biotech start-up firm, how to write a competitive business plan, and the proper interaction with venture capitalists, lawyers, and investment bankers through the entire business cycle. All through this process, the importance of ethics is continually studied, stressed, and examined.  Additionally, guest speakers will be incorporated throughout the semester including a venture capitalist, a business ethicist, startup attorney, investment banker, and several bioscience entrepreneurs.

The desired outcomes are: Provide insight into the skills needed to start and develop a new biotech venture, to learn how to write a competitive business plan, understanding the role of intellectual property, appreciate the importance of ethics and values in the entrepreneurial cycle, and to stimulate thinking about the wide range of opportunities available to the enterprising individual considering starting a biotech firm and/or a career with a small bioscience company.

Contact Information

Course Director: Edward Karp (ekarp@tulane.edu)
Office:
Office Phone:309-4950
Fax:
Department website

Grading Policy: Pass/Fail only

Enrollment: All bioscience, engineering, tropical health, medical students and any faculty member.  Elective is open to T1's & T2's. Maximum 24 students

Course Time: Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.  Spring Semester 2013

Location:  Lindy Boggs building Rm. 239 (Uptown Campus)

Prerequisites: None, except an open mind. Class load is geared to a graduate
level.

Sessions: 3 and 4 (Continuation of course material)

 

HEALTHCARE FOR THE URBAN UNDERSERVED

Not offered Fall 2013

Course Overview

This elective intends to provide Tulane health professional students with an introduction to issues surrounding healthcare for urban underserved populations. This course is designed to complement the Tulane student-run clinics (i.e. Bridge House clinic, Fleur de Vie -- Covenant House, Fleur de Vie -- New Orleans East, and Ozanam Inn Weekend Clinic). The course will involve independent readings, in-class discussions, presentations from community leaders, a community project, and reflection.

Course Goals and Objectives

Grading Policy: Pass or Fail

Elective is open to: T1s and T2s

Number of Students: minimum: 5, maximum: 25

Time of Course: Friday 5-7 PM

Sessions Offered: 1 and 3

Sessions: 1 and 3 (Duplication of course material)

Contact Information

     Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Eboni Price (eprice@tulane.edu)
     Course Coordinator: Samantha Parker (sparker7@tulane.edu)
                                            Kelly Nichols (knichol1@tulane.edu)
     Office: Medicine / Epidemiology

 

MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Course Overview

A discussion group focusing on the application of literature and film to medical education and practice

Course Goals and Objectives

• Encourage students to understand and appreciate the role of humanities in being an important part of a comprehensive medical school curriculum.
• Provide a platform for students and faculty to discuss illness, healing, and dying from ethical, humanistic, and culturally sensitive perspectives.
• Integrate our experiences with the humanities into our practice and teaching of medicine.

Syllabus

2013/2014 

August
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Beasts of the Southern Wild (film)

September
Selected shorts: By the Light of the Jukebox by Dr. Dean Paschal, an emergency room physician at the VA who will be joining us for our discussion
The Plague by Albert Camus

October
Island by Aldous Huxley
Cat People (film)

November
Selected shorts: Flannery O'Connor
Home by Toni Morrison

January
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Selected shorts: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

February
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Play (TBD - we'll be reading and viewing a performance of a play that is showing locally)

Previous Readings

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
• God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet
• Philadelphia (movie)
• Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
• A Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose

• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 12 Angry Men (film)
• Tweak: Growing Up On Amphetamines by Nic Sheff and Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff
• If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
• Nathaniel Hawthorne short story selections
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
  

• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• Selections from A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film version of the play by Edward Albee)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Marc Haddon
• The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

Previous Screenings:

• Harold and Maude
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Contact Information

     Faculty Sponsor:  Dr. Marc Kahn
     Course Coordinator: Megan Curtis, David Fink, Matt Hallowell, Megan Terle, and William Vail
     Session:  1, 2, 3
     Location/Time:  Murphy Building, Room 202, twice per month, 12:00-1:00 PM
     Enrollment:  1st and 2nd year medical students, limit 20

 

Not Offered Spring 2013

Course Overview

This elective will teach the biological underpinnings of Mind-Body Medicine while you experience the mind-body skills in a small group setting. This course has been taught in over 13 medical schools, including Georgetown and University of Minnesota. The eight sessions are based on the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington DC model (www.cmbm.org). This experiential elective will help medical students understand the concept of Self-Care and how to incorporate relaxation, mindful nutrition and exercise into their lives. It will teach many skills (meditation, autogenic training and biofeedback, movement, nutrition, and virtual imagery) that will help develop the resiliency needed for a demanding and fulfilling career in medicine. Most importantly, the skills are simple and help with many stress-induced and preventable chronic conditions that will be encountered in patient care.

Course Goals and Objectives

Syllabus

Contact Information

Course Director:  Nereida A. Parada, M.D.
Office:
Office Phone:  Voice 988-1148, Main 988-2250
Email:
Fax:  988-2144
Department website:

Grading Policy:  Active participation and a 1-2 page write-up on how the elective has affected them over the eight week period.     

Number of Students:  10 Minimum, 10 Maximum

Course Time:  Session 3 Fridays 2:30-4:30 p.m. T1's & T2's

Location:  1525A

 

Not offered Spring 2013

Course Information

Students will visit in the home setting as well as see patients in the nursing home setting.  Preceptors for the course will include the faculty physicians of Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) and the geriatrics program. Students will be encouraged to follow patients as they transition from the inpatient to the home setting and/or nursing home setting as they recover from an acute illness. Student performance will be evaluated by rating of preceptors.

Course Goals and Objectives

The purpose of this elective is to introduce students to the special needs of the frail older patient. The objectives are:

• to enable the student to see patients in the home and  nursing home setting, recognizing the unique strengths of care offered within  different models of care for the older adult. 
• to enable the student to appreciate how other health  professionals (nurses, therapists, dietitians, and social workers) can  contribute to the care of the frail older patient in an interdisciplinary  setting;
• to help the student appreciate how best to enable an older  patient to recover from an acute illness and to manage multiple chronic  illnesses within the psychosocial demands and individual expectations of the  frail patient;
• to enable the student to appreciate the importance of  optimizing function in older patients, rather than just focusing on diseases and  their treatment;
• to introduce the student to some of the physiologic changes  associated with aging, including the concepts of heterogeneity and loss of  homeostatic reserve;
• to introduce the student to some of the geriatric syndromes  and conditions, such as dementia, polypharmacy, incontinence, delirium, fall,  and altered disease presentation.

Syllabus

Contact Information

Course Director: Dr. Lumie Kawasaki, MD
Office Phone: (504) 988-7518
Fax: (504) 988-8252
Mailing Address: 1430 Tulane Avenue, SL 12, New Orleans, LA 70112
Department website

Enrollment: Elective is open to T1s and T2s. 1 student.

Course Time:

Schedule will vary to accommodate the schedules of students as well as preceptors in the different settings.

Prerequisite: Permissions of the Instructor

Sessions 3 and 4 (individual sessions or combination of sessions)

 

Sexual Health for the Health Care Provider

Department: Medicine

Faculty/Staff Sponsors: MarkAlain Dery, DO, MPH

Phone: 504-988-7138

Email: madery@tulane.edu

Brief Description of Course Content: This elective is designed to develop medical students' knowledge and skills toward encouraging healthy sexualities and managing sexual concerns among their patients. Sessions vary in topics and teaching methods and are purposefully designed to provide cross-disciplinary perspectives.

• Week 1: Common Sexual Concerns - Intro with Pub-style Quizzing
  
• Week 2: Sex & Terminology
• Week 3: LGBT Health
• Week 4: Safe Sex, STIs, HIV/AIDS
• Week 5: Sex Across the Lifespan, Part 1: Aging Population
• Week 6: Sex Across the Lifespan, Part 2: Pediatric Population 
  
• Week 7: Intersex
  
• Week 8: Sex & Disability
• Week 9: Sexual Violence in New Orleans
• Week 10: Kink
  

Grading Policy: Students will be graded based on attendance and class participation.  In order to pass the class, students will be expected to fill out a short reflection surveys after each class session.

Elective is open to: T1s & T2s

Number of Students: 5 minimum, 50 maximum

Time of Course: Wednesdays 12–1pm

Location: TBA

Session: 2 (late October through mid December)

Additional Contact Information for T1 Electives

Course Electives Coordinator: Kim Melerine
Office: 131 S. Robertson St. Suite 1550
Office Phone: (504) 988-2222
Fax: (504) 988-6462
Mailing Address: Office of Admissions and Student Affairs
1430 Tulane Ave., SL-67, New Orleans, LA 70112

Department website: http://tulane.edu/som/StudentAffairs/about-us.cfm