Medicine and Healthcare Minor

This is a new seminar course, organized by the Career Center with assistance of the Pre-Health Advising Coordinator and in consultation with the Clarkson Health Professions Committee Chair. It meets semi-weekly, and uses the seminar format to bring in human health professionals from a diversity of fields to discuss their professions, including what their professions encompass, the academic and experiential track they followed to become medical professionals, their perspective on the future directions of their fields, and opportunities for Clarkson students to pursue these fields. It will also bring representatives of different professional schools to discuss admission, expenses, and career opportunities.

A student, to complete the minor, is required to accumulate at least 50 hours of work in a health profession setting. The work must include some form of interaction with health professionals and with patients or analogous health-service recipients. Examples include healthcare internships or volunteer positions at a hospital or clinic, completions of HS 210 Health Coaches II, serving as an EMT or emergency first-responder, serving as an athletic trainer. Conducting research with medical applications that does not involve working with patients/ health-service recipients will not meet the requirements for this course. In order to satisfy this requirement, the student must enroll in HS405 Experiential Learning in Medicine & Healthcare and, by the end of the relevant semester, have submitted evidence of the work experience hours completed along with a short (around 2 page) self-reflective essay. The essay should describe what the student did and learned during the experience, and how the experience has affected the student’s professional goals and preparation. It is not necessary to enroll in HS405 prior to the work experience, and indeed it is often more practical for students to enroll in HS405 at some point after they have completed the necessary hours.