2013-2014 Course Descriptions
Biomedical Research
Kenneth Bayles, Ph.D. and Howard Fox, M.D. Ph.D.
Students will investigate current issues, challenges, and opportunities in biomedical research through hands-on experience and training, while exploring the multitude of career and research possibilities in the laboratory setting. Students will learn to use lab equipment and how to conduct experiments utilizing the latest technology.
Dimensions of Community Health
Andrew Jameton, Ph.D.
This class will undertake a systematic overview of what communities can and need to do to maximize and sustain their health and safety. Students will examine the forces and the factors that influence the public’s health and build models that clarify complex issues. They will engage in improving the health of ourselves and our families in the light of regional and global health issues. The students will be able to understand the leading health problems in the Omaha region through study, reflection, narrative, and first-hand experiences. Also they will identify routes for improving health through individual conduct, prevention, environmental factors, policy, and justice.
Exploration of Human Anatomy
Gordon Todd, Ph.D.
Go beyond the textbook and classroom, and gain the experience of working with UNMC students in the Gross Anatomy Lab. Students in this course will work in concert with UNMC Anatomy faculty and students, and will learn the inter-workings of the human body through classroom lessons and guided visits to the anatomy lab, and gain a greater appreciation for the complexity of the human body.
Genetics - ABCs of DNA *
Maurice Godfrey, Ph.D.
The UNMC High School Alliance Genetics course will explore the Human Genome Project, including the nature of genetic material, patterns of inheritance, gene expression and regulation, genetic variation, evolution, and genetics and society. Students will undertake numerous laboratory-based and interactive exercises, including molecular biology techniques.
Infectious Disease - Microbes: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Linsey Donner, MPH, MLS (ASCP)
This introductory course focuses on the study of human infectious disease and the clinical laboratory’s role in diagnosis and treatment. Emphasis is placed on the correlation of clinical laboratory data with the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infections. Instructional methods include lecture, class discussions, learner-centered projects, case studies and a hands-on laboratory component.
Health Science Fundamentals*
Connie Miller, PhD, RN and Lissa Clark RN, MSN
This course will engage student in the basic understanding of providing care for patients. Instructional methods will include class discussions, lecture, learner-centered projects, case studies, and a simulation lab component using high-tech, high-fidelity, human patient simulation Manikins.
Art and Science of Decision Making
William Lydiatt, M.D.
Utilizing skills acquired through an array of disciplines such as statistics, literature, art, ethics, and observation, students in this course will gain a greater appreciation for the many elements a health care provider must consider throughout the medical-decision making process. Students will explore the mathematics behind various therapy options, historical context through art and literature, and the unique ethical dilemmas health care providers face throughout the medical decision-making process by observing actual direct patient/caregiver interactions.
Pathology - Connecting Cells to the Clinic: Fundamentals of Disease
Geoffrey A. Talmon, M.D., Jim Booth, Ph.D.
Through a combination of lectures, discussions, projects, and hands-on activities (including clinical skills simulation), students in this course will explore the mechanisms that underlie many common diseases and conditions. Using examples from the media and real life as a framework, students will be exposed to concepts such as inflammation and healing, cancer, immunology and system-based pathology. Students will gain an appreciation for how changes that occur at the microscopic level lead to physical symptoms and develop an understanding of how the interventions of health care providers alter disease processes.
*The “Genetics-ABC’s of DNA” and “Health Science Fundamentals” are scheduled to be 9-week courses.
