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Gender-Specific Medicine in the UA College of Medicine curriculum

Content for the Gender-Specific Medicine (GSM) Thread in the various blocks of the ArizonaMed curriculum was launched in Fall 2006. GSM Thread content is delivered via 3 learning modalities: Interactive Lecture, Team Learning, and Case-Based Instruction. Other threads related to the GSM thread are as follows:

o Doctoring (includes Medical Interviewing and Physical Exam);

o Humanism (includes Ethics, Behavioral Science, Humanities & Professionalism);

o Interprofessional Education;

o Evidence-based Decision Making;

o Health Systems & Equity;

o Aging, Special Populations & Chronic Care; and

o Public Health & Preventive Medicine.

Professional Education and Outreach

The College of Medicine provides opportunities for professional education to reach out to communities throughout the state and internationally. A few examples are:

Through the Rural Health Professions Program, medicine, pharmacy and nurse practitioner students receive part of their education at rural sites statewide.

On Native American reservations, physicians from the Steele Children's Research Center offer early diagnoses of genetic conditions.

Through the Arizona Telemedicine Program, high-resolution video imaging allows AHSC specialists to provide medical consultation to rural physicians and other health professionals to improve patients' lives.

The Arizona Health Sciences Library, Arizona's most extensive source of health sciences information, is considered one of the best libraries of its kind in the nation.