HEAL 5001 - Health and Healing

11 credit hours

The Health and Healing course is based on the osteopathic principle that “the body has the ability to heal itself”. It incorporates basic medical sciences to support foundational knowledge of homeostatic mechanisms. The course includes critical concepts in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, histology, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, pathology, and pharmacology. To help students develop skills essential for compassionate medical care, the biomedical sciences are complemented by medical humanities, assessing human development, psychology of being a physician, bioethics, and health care delivery. Material presented in Medical Skills and Osteopathic Principles and Practice augment this learning with physical diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment skill development.