Course Syllabus

BIOL 2122 Utah Health Scholars: Critical Analysis and Reading in Healthcare

Course Description

This course is designed to give continued guidance to pre-health profession students involved in the Utah Health Scholars program. Students will be assigned a book relevant to the health care field to read during the semester. Students will be required to provide reflection on the book as well as continue to learn about volunteerism, leadership, job shadowing and patient exposure and its impact on themselves and their future academic goals.

Justification

This course will serve pre-health students at Snow College by providing a pathway for students who have already taken Biology 2120 to gain continued guidance and skills needed to be competitive applicants. This course will provide participants the opportunity to read and reflect on an assigned book relevant to the health care field. Students will be required to keep a quote/reflective journal about the book, and meet together as a group 3 times during the semester to discuss the book. Since reading passages and being able to understand those passages are a part of entrance exams for health profession schools, students will gain skills that will help them prepare for those tests. Students will also be required to continue accruing community service, leadership, job shadowing and patient exposure hours to increase their competitiveness to their programs.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Have the opportunity to practice reading and reflection skills, providing necessary practice for health profession entrance exams and interviews.
2. Develop an educational and healthcare career pathway plan.
3. Provide resume-building experiences in community service, leadership, patient exposure, research, and/or job shadowing.
4. Evaluate and reflect on current healthcare issues through reading weekly healthcare articles.

Course Content

This course will include the following: Reading of an assigned healthcare-related book, and submission of a required quote/reflection journal; Discussion of the book in a group setting; Reading weekly health care related articles; Attending one enhanced advising session; 25 hours of a combination of community service, leadership, patient exposure, research and/or job shadowing. Materials for this course will be drawn from various sources looking at the different groups of patients a medical practitioner will see during their career. The readings, discussions, and experiential learning will help the students develop an understanding of and empathy for various groups.