MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE
Sample Schedule
Day 1
- Registration
- Campus Tours
- AU Credit Option
- Opening Ceremony
- TA Group Orientation
Day 2
- AU Credit Option
- Ropes Challenge Course
- Lecture Series: Forensics & Toxicology
- Leadership Series: Personality Styles and Group Dynamics
- Social
Day 3
- Lecture Series: Medical Ethics
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Clinical Rounds Simulation
- Suturing
- Surgical Knot-Tying
- Vital Signs
- Auscultation and Percussion
- Patient Intake
- Leadership Series: Community Development
- Social
Day 4
- Museum of Surgical Science
- Leadership Series: Cross-Cultural Communication
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Outbreak! Simulation
- Grant Park Visit
- Leadership Series: Ethical Decision-Making
- Social
Day 5
- AU Credit Option
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Global Health Panel
- Public Health Advocacy Panel
- Surgical Skills Experience
- Medical Student Q & A
- Guest Speaker: Genetic Engineering
- Public Health Symposium: Presentation Preparation
- Social
Day 6
- AU Credit Option
- Lecture Series: College and Medicine
- Guest Speaker: Non-Western Medicine
- Navy Pier
- Surgical Experience: Dissection
- Social
Day 7
- Museum of Science & Industry
- Public Health Symposium: Presentation Preparation
- Lecture Series: Medicine in the 21st Century
- Leadership Series: The Art of Communication
- Medical Documentary
- Social
Day 8
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Surgical Services
- Minimally Invasive Lab
- Automated Lab
- Autopsy
- Ambulatory Surgery Center
- Magnificent Mile
- Guest Speaker: Community Medicine
- Social
Day 9
- AU Credit Option
- Guest Speaker
- Leadership Series: Intrapersonal Communication
- Medical Debates
- Public Health Symposium: Initiative Proposals
- Social
Day 10
- Leadership Series: What I've Discovered
- Closing Ceremony
- Final TA Group Meeting
Note: While not every session is scheduled the same, this is an example of a Medicine & Health Care session.
Day 1
- Registration
- Campus Tours
- AU Credit Option
- Opening Ceremony
- TA Group Orientation
Day 2
- AU Credit Option
- Ropes Challenge Course
- Lecture Series: Forensics & Toxicology
- Leadership Series: Personality Styles and Group Dynamics
- Social
Day 3
- Lecture Series: Medical Ethics
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Clinical Rounds Simulation
- Suturing
- Surgical Knot-Tying
- Vital Signs
- Auscultation and Percussion
- Patient Intake
- Leadership Series: Community Development
- Social
Day 4
- Visit California Academy of Sciences
- Leadership Series: Cross-Cultural Communication
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Outbreak! Simulation
- Facility Visit: UC-Berkeley School of Optometry
- Leadership Series: Ethical Decision-Making
- Social
Day 5
- AU Credit Option
- Medical Facility Visit: J. David Gladstone Research Institute at UC – San Francisco
- Guest Speaker: Genetic Engineering
- Public Health Symposium: Presentation Preparation
- Social
Day 6
- AU Credit Option
- Lecture Series: College and Medicine
- Guest Speaker: Non-Western Medicine
- Fisherman’s Wharf
- Surgical Experience: Dissection
- Social
Day 7
- Facility Visit: The Exploratorium
- Public Health Symposium: Presentation Preparation
- Lecture Series: Medicine in the 21st Century
- Leadership Series: The Art of Communication
- Medical Documentary
- Social
Day 8
- Medical Facility Visit
- Independent Research Time
- Dinner at Presidio Park
- Guest Speaker
- Medical Documentary
Day 9
- AU Credit Option
- Guest Speaker
- Leadership Series: Intrapersonal Communication
- Medical Debates
- Public Health Symposium: Initiative Proposals
- Social
Day 10
- Leadership Series: What I've Discovered
- Closing Ceremony
- Final TA Meeting
Note: While not every session is scheduled the same, this is an example of a Medicine & Health Care session.
Day 1
- Registration
- Campus Tours of the University of Maryland
- Opening Ceremony
- Lecture Series: Medicine in the 21st Century
- Small Group Orientation
Day 2
- AU Credit Option
- Ropes Challenge Course
- Lecture Series: New Technologies in Medicine
- Leadership Series: Personality Styles and Group Dynamics
- Pizza Social
Day 3
- Visit to University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Medical School Admissions Panel
- Tour of Library, Lecture Halls, and Anatomy Labs
- Medical Student Q & A
- Lecture: Medical Ethics
- Leadership Series: Interpersonal Communication
- Live From the Heart: A Guided Introduction to Open Heart Surgery
Day 4
- Visit Baltimore Harbor
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Public Health Simulation: Outbreak!
- Leadership Series: Ethical Decision-Making
- Film Viewing: Public Health Documentary
Day 5
- Clinical Rounds Simulation
- Suturing
- Surgical Knot-Tying
- Vital Signs
- Auscultation and Percussion
- Patient Intake
Leadership Series: Community Development
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Ice Cream Social
Day 6
- AU Credit Option
- Visit the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Visit Historic Georgetown
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Lecture Series: Day in the Life of a Surgeon
Day 7
- Surgical Experience: Dissection
- Picnic at Lafayette Park
- Holocaust Memorial Museum Visit
- Public Health Symposium: Group Research
- Social
Day 8
- Capitol Hill and the Smithsonian Institution
- Congressional Visits
- Library of Congress
- Air and Space Museum
- National Gallery of Art
- American History Museum
- And many more
- Dinner at Historic Union Station
- Public Health Symposium: Presentation Preparation
- Guest Speaker
Day 9
- Visit the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Leadership Series: Intrapersonal Communication
- Medical Debates
- Public Health Symposium: Initiative Proposals
- Dance
Day 10
- Leadership Series: What I've Discovered
- Closing Ceremony
- Final Small Group Meeting
- Student Departure
Note: While not every session is scheduled the same, this is an example of a Medicine & Health Care session.