The healthcare services landscape is shifting. Hospitals, which were the foundation of American healthcare, are having to reconfigure their organizations and services. Satellite offices, acute care locations, and even pharmacies are offering more services to increasingly stratified patient consumers. This interdisciplinary course offers graduate students across the University the opportunity to examine closely the complexity of today's health care services and the necessarily multiple perspectives from which we view, think, and work in healthcare settings.
Participating Schools/Departments
Organized, coordinated and sponsored by the Law School, the course will be taught by University of Miami professors from the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences: Geography Department or Anthropology
- School of Architecture
- School of Business Administration
- School of Law
- Miller School of Medicine
- Department of Public Health Services
- School of Nursing and Health Studies
- UM Institute of Bioethics and Health Policy
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Time and Location
9:00 am to 4:30 pm, Saturdays as indicated below
Law Library, Faculty Meeting Room, 4th floor for all sessions (please note: the Law Library opens at 8:30 am on Saturdays).
Breakfast and lunch provided
Any UM Coral Gables parking lot may be used on Saturdays, providing the student has a UM parking pass (for any campus).
Schedule
The course is listed under LAW255, MDR837, BUS698, GEG625, ARC681, EPH663, NUR697
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Readings
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Assignments
Each Saturday am and pm session will have readings assigned and made available to the students in PDF documents. Students are expected to read the papers prior to the class. The final grade will be based on a group presentation (with PowerPoint slides) of a case study. The course contact will assign students into interdisciplinary groups of approx. 3 students based on the sessions they will be attending.
Contact Information
For more information on this course, please contact: Timothy C. Loftus, M.D., J.D., Fredman Family Foundation Practitioner-in-Residence and Lecturer, at tloftus@law.miami.edu or 305-284-1775.
