New Parent/Caregiver Elective

Catalog description:  This flexible rotation is designed to allow medical students who become new parents (i.e., birth, adoption, or foster) or are in the role of a caregiver to another child or adult (e.g., elder care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, etc), to spend additional time learning from and benefiting from their experience as a caregiver.

Syllabus

Sites:  

Required session attendance: Does not apply

Typical weekly schedule/Delivery mode: Self paced

Direct patient care:  No

Consent requirement: Open to student scheduling

Course objectives:  By the end of the course, students will be able to....

• Reflect on how becoming a caregiver changes the way you practice as a physician.
• Disseminate learnings about caregiving through a small scholarly project.
• Develop and practice life long skills of balancing work as a physician and family life/outside commitments.

Graded components:  Weekly reflections (250 words on Canvas), final publication/presentation (e.g. Tweetorial, blog post, narrative medicine piece, or a presentation to their peers or students on this clerkship).

Grading scale:  P/N

Allow repetition of course: Repetition not allowed

Course equivalency: Does not apply