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APSA Sponsored Session:
Keystone, CO (July 7-9, 2006) |
Last Updated:
August 13, 2008 |
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American Physician Scientists
Association
National MD/PhD Student Conference -
Breakout Sessions
Keystone, CO
(July 7-9, 2006) |
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The American
Physician Scientists Association is
pleased to announce that, in
addition to the poster that APSA
presents yearly, APSA will be
leading two breakout sessions at the
National MD/PhD Student Conference
in Keystone, CO. These sessions are
targeted at addressing students'
concerns and questions about career
pathways and a case session will be
presented for students interested in
the social sciences and humanities. |
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Breakout Sessions
Sponsored by the American
Physician Scientists
Association |
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Location: |
Keystone
Conference Center, Keystone,
CO
See the National MD/PhD
Student Conference Website
for more information. |
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Date: |
1:30 PM -
3:20 PM
July 8, 2006 |
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Breakout Session
Career Development: "What
are my Options?" |
“So you have
great ideas and want to
improve the life of each
patient . . . but how do you
translate these skills and
dreams into a paycheck that
will keep food on the table?
Practical mechanisms and
pathways will comprise the
meat of this round-table
discussion.” |
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Breakout Session
Social Sciences &
Humanities:
"How the Hospital Makes
Hank Break the Law: Social
Research and Case
Discussions." |
This session
is an introduction to social
science in clinical
medicine. It is intended
both for MD/PhD’s in the
sciences who are looking for
a fresh look at medicine
from a new analytical
perspective during the
Colorado conference and for
students in the social
sciences and humanities. In
the session, we will present
two cases from our social
scientific research and then
lead a discussion of them
utilizing social and
cultural analysis. First,
the case of Hank, a homeless
heroin user who finds
himself trapped between the
demands of the San Francisco
public health, police and
hospital systems. This
triad of institutions drives
Hank into a strange set of
conundrums and plot twists
that reveal fundamental
concepts at work in health
care today. The second case
will discuss Khaew, a Thai
construction worker who ends
up in the ICU on a
ventilator. Khaew’s family
will take us on a journey
through an extraordinary
non-Western bioethical
system, where doctors and
patients alike use karma,
reincarnation, paternalism
and ghosts as their ethical
principles for making
decisions. At the end, this
case will allow us to build
a theory of what would
happen if Khaew came instead
to a Western hospital with
his same injury. |
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