Medical Practice & Policy
Healthcare is changing around the world. How can you prepare yourself to enter into the field, what career opportunities await, and how do differing cultural systems and practices affect healthcare within Europe? Engage in a pre-medical experience focused on the shift towards precision medicine, where the individual patient’s unique characteristics come into play, and gain a new clinical perspective alongside greater intercultural knowledge.
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It is a good fit if you study:
- Biology
- Biomedicine / Biotechnology
- Pre-Medicine / Health Science
- Public Health
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Core Course
Precision Medicine: Tailored Treatment in Clinical Practice
Fall/Spring, 3 Credits
Standard clinical care is shifting its focus towards precision medicine, where the choice for treatment relies on the specific physiological and genetic characteristics of a given patient. This course covers current clinical practices within precision medicine including application of genomics and proteomics in the clinic. In addition, you study patient cases and address diagnoses and individualized treatments.
Note: This course does not include shadowing of doctors or physical examination of patients.
Core Course Study Tours
This program travels on Study Tours to the following destinations:
Early in the semester, you delve into your academic focus during Core Course Week, in which you travel on a short Study Tour for three days in Sweden, combined with a two-day seminar in Stockholm. Later in the semester, you travel again with your Core Course on a week-long Study Tour in Europe.
While on tour, theories learned in the classroom come to life by meeting with professionals and experts in your field who contribute to furthering your understanding of course topics. Study Tours are hands-on and experiential, combining theory with practice, and expose you to additional cultural perspectives. You have the opportunity to visit sites and experts in your field of interest that you may not otherwise have access too.
Elective Courses
Add elective courses to complement your Core Course at DIS Stockholm. You decide how to build your course load based on your needs and interests!
Electives range across disciplines and include research, labs, and even Exploration Electives, which come with a travel component.
Visit our website to view the full list of over 65 additional elective courses!
Prerequisites
One year of biology and one year of chemistry at university level.
