Becoming a Physician Speaker Series
Spring 2007
- Healed or Hurt: Cultural Competence in Medicine, March 2007
Spring 2006
- Gifts, Goodies, and Guilt: Doctors and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Apr 5, 2006
- Healthcare Reform: If Not Now, When?, Mar 2006
- Malpractice & Medical Error: When Doctors Screw Up, Feb 2006
Fall 2005
- Becoming a Physician or Becoming a Jerk: Does Medical Training Harm Students?, Nov 2005
- Medicine in 2015: A Dean’s Perspective, Oct 2005
- Terri's Tragedy: What Can We Learn From The Schiavo Case?, Sep 2005
Spring 2005
- Money, Morals, & Medicine: Commercialism Meets Professionalism, Mar 31, 2005
- Physician Assisted Suicide: Dignity or Desertion?, Mar 3, 2005
- Stem Cells: Hope or Hype?, Feb 3, 2005
Description by Kevin Chang, undergraduate pre-medical student
In the spring of 2005, Josh Hornstein created a speaker series founded on the concern that modern physicians were losing touch with the principles and ‘normative ideals’ which were once the foundation of a doctor’s training. Worried that the strenuous undergraduate experience was alienating and enervating, this series of talks was meant to ‘enrich’ the undergraduate experience, and prevent this alarming trend from continuing. With topics ranging from pharmaceutical paybacks, to malpractice litigation, these events, appropriately titled “Becoming a Physician,” offered undergraduate pre-meds a forum in which to think about pressing ethical issues they would face, in hopes of fostering the best possible values and character traits, as early as possible. [More...]
Sponsors:
College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Student Senate
Co-Sponsors:
USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology