printer friendly pageMED 204: Access and Delivery of Essential Medicines to Poor and Underserved Communities
Student initiated lecture series. Guest speakers. Topics include: neglected diseases, underserved and impoverished markets, disease profiles of lower and middle income countries, pricing and distribution of biomedical end products, intellectual property in medicine and its effect on delivery of healthcare.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| Repeatable
for credit
MED 206: Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis (CHPR 206, HRP 206, STATS 211)
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)
;
Serghiou, S. (TA)
MED 207: History of Medicine
Begins with studying Shamanistic medicine, practiced by humans throughout the globe, for millennia. Covers magico-religious medicine developed in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece; the 4th Century BC with Hippocrates beginning to separate medicine from religion and magic; the slow progress in ancient Rome, the medieval period, and during the Renaissance; and the acceleration in the pace of discoveries In the last few centuries, as medicine became more scientific, complex, and specialized as Pasteur developed the germ theory of disease, Darwin and Mendel publications begin the development of Evolution and of Genetics, Watson and Crick solved the mystery of DNA structure, organ transplants began, and imaging procedures such as CT and MRI came into being. Lectures are profusely illustrated, and, for the sake of comparison, two equally ancient systems of medicine, the traditional Chinese and the Vedic, are briefly reviewed.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
CAMARGO, C. (PI)
MED 209: Health Law: Quality and Safety of Care
(Same as
LAW 3002) Concerns about the quality of health care, along with concerns about its cost and accessibility, are the focal points of American health policy. Considers how legislators, courts, and professional groups attempt to safeguard the quality and safety of the health care patients receive. The course approaches "regulation" in a broad sense. Focuses on regimes for determining who may deliver health care services (e.g. licensing and accreditation agencies), legal and ethical obligations providers owe to patients (e.g. confidentiality, informed consent), individual and institutional liability for substandard care, and various proposals for reforming the medical malpractice system. Includes discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka, "Obamacare"), which is launching many new initiatives aimed at assuring or improving health care quality.
Last offered: Spring 2017
MED 210: Principles and Practice of Healthcare Quality Improvement
This course will introduce students to foundational concepts in healthcare quality improvement, and provide tools for translating these principles into practice. Topics include: current state, A3, SMART goals, root-cause analysis, metrics and measures, PDCA cycles, process controls, systems, and sustainability. Students have the option of completing the course curriculum in conjunction with a quality improvement/patient safety project offered by the SMS Quality Improvement Interest Group. This course will meet for three in-class sessions throughout the quarter, with students reviewing the online materials before each session. Dinner will be served. May be repeated for credit up to three quarters with continued work on a quality improvement project, and all units count towards the Quality Improvement Scholarly Concentration.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
Instructors:
Shieh, L. (PI)
;
Aredo, J. (TA)
MED 212: Methods for Health Care Delivery Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation (CHPR 212, HRP 218)
Preference given to postgraduate fellows and graduate students. Focus is on implementation science and evaluation of health care delivery innovations. Topics include implementation science theory, frameworks, and measurement principles; qualitative and quantitative approaches to designing and evaluating new health care models; hybrid design trials that simultaneously evaluate implementation and effectiveness; distinction between quality improvement and research, and implications for regulatory requirements and publication; and grant-writing strategies for implementation science and evaluation. Students will develop a mock (or actual) grant proposal to conduct a needs assessment or evaluate a Stanford/VA/community intervention, incorporating concepts, frameworks, and methods discussed in class. Priority for enrollment for
CHPR 212 will be given to CHPR master's students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Asch, S. (PI)
;
Zulman, D. (PI)
MED 213: Compassion Cultivation for the Physician-in-Training
Provides mentored practice and growth in students' knowledge, skills and attitudes in compassion cultivation for one's self and others. Integrates traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research on compassion.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
MED 214: PHS/Public Health Seminar Series
This course is open to all MD students as well as undergraduate and graduate students and not restricted to any major. Each session of the seminar will focus on a population based/public health related issue that has a broad multidisciplinary appeal. There will be a presentation as well as opportunity for discussion. Topics include environmental health, work-life, learning health systems, health disparities, immigration and health, aging, and other population health sciences based subjects. Faculty from across campus as well as distinguished speakers from across the country and internationally, who are experts in the field, will present at each session. The purpose of the course is in line with the mission of the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, which is to improve individual and population health by bringing together diverse disciplines and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors.nThis class can be repeated for credit. See
http://med.stanford.edu/phs.html for more information on the Center for Population Health Sciences and the many resources it provides.
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
MED 215A: Health Policy PhD Core Seminar I--First Year (HRP 201A)
Seminar series is the core tutorial for first-year Health Policy and Health Services Research graduate students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems and reform and disparities in the US and globally, health and economic development, health law and policy, resource allocation, efficiency and equity, healthcare quality, measurement and the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions. Blocks of session led by Stanford expert faculty in particular fields of study. 2 unit registration requires written responses to assigned reading questions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Haberland, C. (PI)
MED 215B: Health Policy PhD Core Seminar II--First Year (HRP 201B)
Second in a three-quarter seminar series is the core tutorial for first-year Health Policy and Health Services Research graduate students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems and reform and disparities in the US and globally, health and economic development, health law and policy, resource allocation, efficiency and equity, healthcare quality, measurement and the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions. Blocks of session led by Stanford expert faculty in particular fields of study.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Bundorf, M. (PI)
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