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Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Tai chi as a recognized form of complimentary and alternative medicine. Intended to promote student health and well-being and to decrease stress, depression, and anxiety through the practice of tai chi. Weekly practices under the instruction of world-renowned 20th generation tai chi expert, Master Shu Dong Li. Analysis of the literature regarding health benefits of tai chi.

Exploration of the interconnections among human capacities such as thought, emotion, belief, attitudes, and physical health. Reviews literature relevant to mind-body medicine. Discusses and practices specific skills (including mindfulness exercises, meditation, imagery, visualization, body awareness, autogenics, and biofeedback) to enhance self-awareness, self-expression, and stress management. Anticipated benefits to class participants include discovering and mobilizing their capacity to participate in valuable and proven methods of stress reduction, while dealing with the frustrations and alienation that many students experience in medical school and beyond. Prerequisite: Interest in PsychoNeuroimmunology.

Presentations by local, national, and international experts in various modalities of integrative medicine commonly used by patients in the US, including mind-body medicine (biofeedback, clinical hypnosis, meditation, yoga); traditional whole systems of medicine (traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda); biological therapies (botanical medicine, supplements, herbal medicine); manipulative therapies (chiropractic, massage); and acupuncture. Lectures focus on evidence supporting the potential value of various treatment modalities and explanations of both the traditional and proposed scientific mechanisms of actions. Most classes include an experiential portion.

Weekly lecture series. Linguistic, social class, and cultural factors that impact patient care. Culturally sensitive health care services and contemporary research issues involving minority and underserved populations. Topics include health care inequities and medical practices of African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, immigrants, and refugees in both urban and rural settings. 1 unit for attending weekly lectures only; 2 units for attending lectures followed by one-hour discussions facilitated by course director; 3 units (non-med students, grad or undergrad only) for completion of a weekly response paper and a research paper, as well as attending lectures and discussions. Only students taking the course for 3 units may earn a letter grade.

Lecture series. Topics of interest to women as health care consumers and providers. The historical role of women in health care; current and future changes. One unit lectures and required course work only; 2 units includes research paper.

A major challenge for medical students in clinical rotations and for physicians throughout their careers is to conduct relationships with patients and colleagues in a manner that is professional, sensitive, perceptive, confident, and authentic. Horses mirror and magnify the interpersonal dynamics of the physician-patient relationship. Working with horses requires sensitivity to nonverbal cues, discrimination in the quality and amount of physical contact, a keen awareness of one's emotional state, a well-developed sense of empathy and kindness, an ability to identify subjectivity in communication, and an effort to overcome one's fear and immobility in the face of uncertainty. Does not entail riding, and no previous horse experience is necessary.

Provides an observational experience for pre-clinical students as determined by the instructor and student. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.