Community Medicine is a fourth year Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine course offered in one-month blocks of time for students interested in public health clinical placements. Students work in public school settings, with the county welfare agency, in the homeless clinic, and with community and faith-based organizations to conduct health care, health education and public policy research.
CMH 807    Community Medicine

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Ethics in an Interprofessional Context is a course open to students from the Boonshoft School of Medicine and the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University, and United Theological Institute. It is offered annually during spring quarter on Thursday evenings.
The course invites practicing physicians, psychologists and clergy to help students learn about the value of interprofessional practice in light of the multiple and overlapping ethical issues that confront providers while serving the patients, clients and parishioners in day-to-day work.
PSI 967 / CMH 607  ETHICS IN AN INTERPROFESSIONAL CONTEXT (Credits: 1 TO 3)

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Global Health (2 courses)

Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine has instituted a student directed, faculty supported program called Global Health Initiative.  Overall the program is focused on introducing medical students to global health issues.  For students interested in a more in depth study of global health issues, there is the International Health Program Track.  This four year curriculum involves undergraduate medical students in two classroom based courses and two clinical rotations.  The classroom based courses are described below.

Health Care in Developing Countries
This ten week course is a pre-requisite for students who are planning to complete an international travel elective to a developing country between their first and second years of medical school.  The course focuses on orienting students to the impact on the health of an individual, the health of a community and the health of a country of physical, psychological, sociological, environmental, political, economic and spiritual issues.  Students are introduced to people’s health beliefs and practices, and health care and public health systems of developing countries. 
SMD 612      HEALTH CARE IN DEVELOPING COUTNRIES

Health Care in the Global Community
Health Care in the Global Community is designed to build on students’ developing knowledge of global health issues through an exploration of current topics at the forefront of international health.  Building on the foundation of knowledge from the first year course, Health Care in Developing Countries, and international travel experiences, students will expand their understanding of impeding and facilitative factors to improving the health of the global community, as well as focus on specific diseases and public health issues.  Typical topics in clued natural disaster, disease due to societal issues, disease due to lifestyle issues, public health, maternal child health, health care delivery, traditional medicine and disease prevention.
SMD 614      HEALTH CARE IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY

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AIDS: Clinical Issues for Clients and Families is a course open to students from the Boonshoft School of Medicine and the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University during summer quarter. Senior level students in graduate programs focus on this specific patient population and learn about public policy issues as well as addressing in an interdisciplinary context the health and mental health concerns for people living with HIV/AIDS.
PSI 947      AIDS: CLINICAL ISSUES FOR CLIENTS AND FAMILIES (Credits: 1 TO 3)

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Multiprofessional Community Based Primary Care is a course open to students from the Boonshoft School of Medicine, the College of Nursing and Health, the Department of Social Work and the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University, the Physicians’ Assistance Program and the Department of Nursing at Kettering College of Medical Arts. The course is offered annually during winter quarter on Friday afternoons. The course starts students in the classroom learning about team practice, health promotion and disease prevention and community resources for the first half of the quarter, then places them, working as multiprofessional teams, in the community through service learning projects with health and human services agencies in the second half of the quarter.
PSI 968/SMD 610  INTRO TO MULTIPROFESSIONAL TEAM PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY BASED CARE (Credits: 1 TO 3)

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