printer friendly pageSOMGEN 227A: Career Exploration Opportunities (CEO) Internship Program Practicum
Restricted to graduate students (year 3 and onward) and postdocs in the Stanford Biosciences program who have completed
SOMGEN 227. Focus is on internship progress and future career goals. Topics include update on progress of internship goals, planning for future career goals and return to academic research, internship activities, culture and mentorship.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Clark, D. (PI)
SOMGEN 231A: Clinical Mandarin in Practice and Application
This 2-quarter course sequence is designed for medical trainees of all language levels interested in developing their scope of Medical Mandarin in clinical practice. The course will focus on understanding Chinese healthcare systems and culture, while navigating potentially difficult conversations in Mandarin including: sexuality, mental health, family dynamics, and end-of-life discussion. The course will feature patient and family voices, adopting a flipped classroom model with biweekly, small group language labs complemented by monthly large group didactic sessions. Students enrolling in the 1-unit course will attend monthly large group didactics, while students enrolled in the 2-unit course will also attend biweekly language labs. Large group sessions will be taught by faculty and residents in Stanford Family Medicine who use Medical Mandarin daily in their own primary care practice. Each large group session will also feature patients, families, and content experts to offer their own lived experiences with Clinical Mandarin. Students with specific medical interests are encouraged to develop their own ideas for directed reading with course staff throughout the course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
SOMGEN 231B: Clinical Mandarin in Practice and Application
This 2-quarter course sequence is designed for medical trainees of all language levels interested in developing their scope of Medical Mandarin in clinical practice. The course will focus on understanding Chinese healthcare systems and culture, while navigating potentially difficult conversations in Mandarin including: sexuality, mental health, family dynamics, and end-of-life discussion. The course will feature patient and family voices, adopting a flipped classroom model with biweekly, small group language labs complemented by monthly large group didactic sessions. Students enrolling in the 1-unit course will attend monthly large group didactics, while students enrolled in the 2-unit course will also attend biweekly language labs. Large group sessions will be taught by faculty and residents in Stanford Family Medicine who use Medical Mandarin daily in their own primary care practice. Each large group session will also feature patients, families, and content experts to offer their own lived experiences with Clinical Mandarin. Students with specific medical interests are encouraged to develop their own ideas for directed reading with course staff throughout the course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
SOMGEN 237: Health Impact of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse across the Lifecourse (AFRICAAM 127, FEMGEN 237, HUMBIO 124)
An overview of the acute and chronic physical and psychological health impact of sexual abuse through the perspective of survivors of childhood, adolescent, young and middle adult, and elder abuse, including special populations such as pregnant women, military and veterans, prison inmates, individuals with mental or physical impairments. Also addresses: race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other demographic and societal factors, including issues specific to college culture. Professionals with expertise in sexual assault present behavioral and prevention efforts such as bystander intervention training, medical screening, counseling and other interventions to manage the emotional trauma of abuse. Undergraduates must enroll for 3 units. To receive a letter grade in any listing, students must enroll for 3 units. This course must be taken for a letter grade and a minimum of 3 units to be eligible for Ways credit. Enrollment limited to students with sophomore academic standing or above or consent of the instructor. Human Biology students must enroll in
HUMBIO 124 or
AFRICAAM 127 or
FEMGEN 237. Med/Grad students should enroll in
SOMGEN 237 for 2 units.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Stefanick, M. (PI)
SOMGEN 243: Exploring perspectives of complex, post-viral, chronic illness and disability through podcast media
The COVID-19 pandemic has left millions of individuals living with post-viral complex illnesses that are poorly understood and often disabling. This course highlights the experiences of patients living with complex, poorly understood illnesses, including dysautonomia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Long COVID, and more. This discussion and Q&A-based course aspire to transform attitudes, enlighten perspectives, and elevate awareness around complex, post-viral, and chronic illnesses. Before each class session, students will listen to podcast episodes featuring complex patients and healthcare providers, created to help equip healthcare students and professionals with the knowledge and empathy needed to serve this patient demographic. Through podcast episodes, guest speaker interactions, and reflective discussions, students will gain insights that foster compassionate and informed care, enhancing comprehension of complex, chronic illnesses, and disability. No prerequisites. Repeatable for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Lin, B. (PI)
;
Eastin, E. (TA)
SOMGEN 275: Leading Value Improvement in Health Care Delivery
Successful leaders on the journey to better care delivery methods with lower total spending inevitably face challenges. What confluence of attitudes, values, strategy, and events allows them to prevail? Contexts will include public policy, entrepreneurship and early stage investing, care delivery innovations, and health care system management to improve the value of care. Course faculty and guests will consist of nationally recognized leaders, innovators, and change agents. The course is open to any member of the Stanford community aspiring to lead value improvement in health care delivery including medical, MBA, law, and graduate students, as well as undergraduates, postdoctoral candidates, and medical center trainees. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
SOMGEN 299: SPRC Education Program Internship
Internship with Stanford Prevention Research Center Education Programs with focus on program administration and development. SPRC education programs include Women and Sex Differences in Medicine (WSDM), Health 4 All (H4A), and Community Health and Prevention Research (CHPR).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
STATS 209: Introduction to Causal Inference
This course introduces the fundamental ideas and methods in causal inference, with examples drawn from education, economics, medicine, and digital marketing. Topics include potential outcomes, randomization, observational studies, matching, covariate adjustment, AIPW, heterogeneous treatment effects, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, and synthetic controls. Prerequisites: basic probability and statistics, familiarity with R.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
STATS 211: Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis (CHPR 206, EPI 206, MED 206)
Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Examples from medicine, epidemiology, genomics, ecology, social/behavioral sciences, education. Collaborative analyses. Project involving generation of a meta-research project or reworking and evaluation of an existing published meta-analysis. Prerequisite: knowledge of basic statistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Ioannidis, J. (PI)
;
Kvarven, A. (PI)
STATS 251: Clinical Trial Design in the Age of Precision Medicine (BIODS 250)
This course offers an overview of statistical foundation for modern clinical trial design in precision medicine research. Starting from a quick review of traditional clinical development paradigm through Phase I to III clinical trials for medical product approval and Phase IV post-marketing studies for safety evaluation, and challenges in the time and society costs, we will introduce recently developed innovative designs and their statistical methodology across all phases of clinical trials. You expected to learn the statistical considerations for novel phase I-II trial designs, master protocols for umbrella, platform and basket trials, adaptive and enrichment designs including subgroup selections, estimand, surrogate and composite endpoints, integration of real-world evidence and patient-focused medical product development, and meta-analysis of clinical trial endpoints. Prerequisites: Working knowledge of statistics and R.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
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