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Winter Term
Course Description:
Despite amazing advances in medical technology, countless people suffer and die every day from diseases we already know how to prevent and treat. This is especially true for groups marginalized by geographic location, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and gender. A key factor for this is the complexity of the healthcare system. In medical school, doctors learn to diagnose and treat patients, in this class students will learn to diagnose and treat the healthcare system. Some of the topics we will cover include:
- Inequity in prenatal care
- Data analytics and predictive modeling
- Burnout and depression in medical training
Term project: Evaluate, analyze, redesign, and reassess healthcare systems to address critical societal issues.
Labs: Students will experiment with IOE techniques such as simulation, optimization, data analytics, and predictive modeling (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc.)
