Courses

Prerequisites: none

Course director: HMED Faculty

Contact: Dr. Jennifer Gunn ([email protected]) or [email protected]

Description: This course is designed to acquaint third and fourth year medical students with the sources and the methods of historical research in medical topics and to allow them to undertake a short research project on a topic which they help design. Possible topics include the development of the specialty they plan to enter, the history of a particular disease, or aspects of the health care system. The research project will result in a short paper.

Competencies and Objectives
To learn some of the basic issues and sources in the history of medicine.

To design a historical research project.

To gain familiarity with how historical sources may be found and to use a historical library or archive for research purposes.

To prepare a research paper in medical history using the standard scholarly apparatus to make and document an argument or interpretation.

Student Assessment
Students will be evaluated on the interest and importance of their topic, on the quality of their research, and on their success in making and supporting an argument or interpretation in their paper.

Special Instructions
At least two weeks before the period begins, contact one of the instructors to discuss your interest with him/her.aped the history of healthcare over time.