BIO 492 - Wellness Practicum

Units: 2
When Offered: Fall, Spring
A study of key issues concerning community healthcare aimed at developing practical approaches to supporting patients. Students consider obstacles to effective healthcare as well as strategies for enabling at-risk patients to play more active roles in promoting their health and well-being. Topics include: challenges of delivering adequate healthcare in communities, population medicine, specific problems posed by diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease, ethical dimensions of the concept of “underinsurance,” community medicine and the law, and methods of improving compliance and measuring outcomes. Conducted as a seminar, this course provides students with the academic foundation for a subsequent Health Coach Internship with the Inland Empire Foundation for Medical Care (IEFMC) Community Care Network (CCN).
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department Chair