We provide students with optional, credit earning courses that cover topics beyond that of the regular core curriculum.
CONTACTS:
Department Admins: globalmedicine@rvu.edu - as a group
Colorado: Becky Steenburg, rsteenburg@rvu.edu
Utah: Judy Simmons, jsimmons@rvu.edu
Department Chair: Dr. Camille Bentley DO, MPH, FACOFP: at cbentley@rvu.edu - Colorado Campus, Pod B
President, Hands for Health Foundation, Aurora, CO.www.handsforhealthfoundation.org
Vice-Chair, Kilimanjaro Mission Hospital, www.kilimanjaromissionhospital.org
Use this to get approval for extra credit in your track.
View this email from Dr. Bentley for details.
TRACK STUDENTS - Use this link to complete the form for your track.
Tracks are open to second semester first year students and run through the remainder of their education.
Academic Medicine & Leadership - UT currently and potentially adding CO as a cross-campus cohort
UT - Dr. Clyde Jensen cjensen@rvu.edu
CO - Dr. Heather Ferrill hferrill@rvu.edu and Dr. Kelli Glaser kglaser@rvu.edu
Digital Health - cross-campus as one cohort
Dr. Cole Zanetti czanetti@rvu.edu
Dr. Regan Stiegmann rstiegmann@rvu.edu
Global Medicine - CO and UT, separately
CO
Dr. Camille Bentley - cbentley@rvu.edu
Dr. Vickie Roettger - vroettger@rvu.edu
UT
Dr. Mark Wardle - mwardle@rvu.edu
Rural & Wilderness Medicine - CO and UT, separately
Dr. Dave Ross - dross@rvu.edu
Dr. Thomas Bigham - tbigham@rvu.edu
Long Term Care Medicine - Utah only
Dr. David Crimin dcrimin@rvu.edu
Physician-Scientist - CO and UT, separately
Dr. Rebecca Ryznar - rryznar@rvu.edu
Dr. Amanda Brooks - abrooks@rvu.edu
Urban Underserved - Colorado Only
Dr. Jean Bouquet jbouquet@rvu.edu
Prof. Jensen Fisher jfisher@rvu.edu
Electives are open to all students, from any program who are in good standing. Course offerings may change due to enrollment, location, or fluency (Medical Spanish). Please understand that as we add new courses, we may not be able to run every course every semester.
To register for an elective, email the course director. They will work on filling their classes and when their roster is finalized, they will work with the Registrar to get students officially enrolled.
Graphic Novels & Medicine
Dr. George igeorge@rvu.edu
History of Medicine
Prof. Jensen Fisher - jfisher@rvu.edu
Dr. Elizabeth George - egeorge@rvu.edu
Medical Spanish
Medicine in Film
Dr. An Dang - adang@rvu.edu
Mr. Joe Richard - jrichard@rvu.edu
Religion, Health & Healthcare
Dr. Qamrul Choudhury - qchoudhury@rvu.edu
Medical Spanish Elective -
Mark Wardle, DO, mwardle@rvu.edu
Thomas Bigham, DO tbigham@rvu.edu
Fundamentals of East Asian Medicine Elective -
Keith Bodrero, DO kbodrero@rvu.edu
Janene Borandi, DACM jborandi@rvu.edu
NOTE - Registration begins in mid-September and mid-January