Course Detail
Units:
1.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Description
This 1-credit elective course offers medical students the opportunity to participate in a faculty-guided analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic as it is occurring. Students will be able to describe the basic biology and pathophysiology of, as well as the public health and clinical responses to COVID-19, apply basic epidemiologic concepts to the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time, and analyze the effects of COVID-19 on underserved populations, healthcare ethics and the mental health of both clinicians and the overall population.