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Amit Kumar Pahwa, MD
- Director, Internal Medicine Sub-internship, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Foundations in Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Care Systems
The Foundations in Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Care Systems course is taught by multidisciplinary faculty from the School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Berman Institute for Bioethics. Faculty use a combination of lecture, readings, interactive panel presentations, reflective writing and small-group discussion in this course. Students elect two “selectives” to attend within the course to study topics in greater depth; selectives meet three weeks in a row.
Course Goals
The overall goals of the course are:
- To develop basic knowledge and understanding of:
- epidemiologic methods and their application to clinical medicine,
- ethical principles that apply to clinical medicine and research, &
- fundamental aspects of the American health care system;
- To explore selected areas of interest at the interface between public health and clinical medicine; and
- To stimulate interest in being an effective advocate for improving health and health care for the populations of patients that you will serve.
Course Directors
Epidemiology
Steve M. Sozio, MD
- Nathans Faculty Leader, Colleges Advisory Program
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Ethics
Jacek Lech Mostwin, Dphil MD
- Director of the Division of Neurological and Reconstructive Urology
- Professor of Urology
Contact
Natrell Miller Darden, B.S.
Medical Training Program Administrator
Email: [email protected]
Time Commitment and Course Length
Course meets 11 weeks from October to December. For the first 10 weeks, meetings occur on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. In the last week, Epidemiology meets for five days in a row.
Typical weekly schedule for Foundations in Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Care Systems
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
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| 2 PM | Clinical Foundations: Orientation | Foundations in Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Care Systems | Clinical Foundations: Communication 1 | Clinical Foundations: Communication 2 |
| 3 PM | ||||
| Clinical Foundations: Team Building |
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| 4 PM | ||||
| 5 PM | ||||
| College Advising: Induction Ceremony |
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| 6 PM | ||||
| 7 PM |
