Page 8 University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1981
Med Center course fills educational void
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
KANAS CITY, Kan.-To fill a void in their medical education, students at the University of Kansas Medical Center are taking advantage of the chance to learn first-hand about the professions' ethical problems.
Students in the clinical processes class confront issues such as, homosexuality, alcoholism, suicide, the presence of a living patient and the disabled physician.
Robert Hudson, professor of internal medicine, said he wanted students to examine early in their careers some of the skills and values that physicians had.
Twin planets, equinox visible this month
Hudson said the 200 students in his class were presented with a case study of a particular problem presented by a panel of Med Center faculty. Then they discussed with the faculty discussions about the issue with a live patient, who has had to deal with the problem.
"It gives the students a chance to try out what they have learned against
Jupiter and Saturn continue to highlight the night sky this month.
He said there was a growing movement to put medical ethics classes into medical school curriculums.
someone who deals with the problem every day," Hudson said.
The twin planets can be spotted in the constellation Virgo, rising in the east at sunset and appearing overhead at night. The planet is the brightest of the two planets.
"If you look at the public's dissatisfaction with medicine, it is not with the scientific advances and discoveries, but with the economic and medical of medicine." Hudson said. "They are the problems the class deals with."
The Gallian satellites, Jupiter's four largest moons, will be visible by a telescope. The KU observatory, on top
HUDSON SAID the students were enthusiastic about the class.
of Lindley Hall, is open to the public every clear Friday night at 7:30 p.m.
The vernal equator also occurs in March. On Friday, March 20, the sun will be directly over the equator, and all earth will have 12 hours of daylight.
"They are so happy to have something other than straight science," he said. "This class gives meaning to their basic science learning."
The moon will be new tonight and full on March 20.
The number of students in the class and their evaluation of it, back up Hudson's claims. An average of 90 percent of the students in the class gave above average ratings to a number of different topics listed on the course evaluation, including how helpful they thought the class was to them.
Hudson said there was so much pressure on first-year students, that they were having problems finding
time to take the class. The class discussions are half as long as they used to be. He said he thought more about the classes should be offered, not less.
"Medical ethics really became an issue 20 years ago, when medicine became able to sustain dying patients on respirators," he said. "Doctors today are facing decisions they would not have faced 20 years ago."
A STUDENT in the class went to a rural Kansas town for a rural health weekend, a program run by the Med Center to get medical students out into communities for first-hand experience, he said.
"The physician the student was working with got together with the family of a dying patient and together they decided to end the patient's life," Hudson said. "The student came back to class with his mouth hanging open.
"These are the kinds of decisions today's doctors face."
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"If doctors don't know about alternatives to a problem they can't consider them," Hudson said. "It is wrong to not know all of the alternatives."
Patients expect their doctor to be able to advise them on human sexuality, terminal illness, and other issues, have little training in, Hudson said.
"Society simply attaches global competence to the physician, and assumes he has been educated in all of what he says," he said. "But they haven't."
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Summer employment job for KU center
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
Market research and product promotion may be topics of discussion in a basic marketing course, but they are also the key ingredients in finding summer employment, according to Vern Gelsaier, director of the University of Kansas Placement Center.
"The most important thing is to sell yourself to the employer, to promote yourself," Gelisher said. "To do that you need a good resume.
"You have to go in looking like you mean business. Ask yourself, if I were hiring someone, what would I be looking for, what would impress me, what would I remember? Then present yourself to the employer in that way."
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After completing a resume, Geissier said that the next step in a job hunt was
to make personal contact with the employer.
"For students looking for summer jobs during spring break the most important thing is to have a schedule and stick to it." he said. "Just because you don't want to work down, doesn't mean you should have a cake and waste the rest of the day.
"You have to do the same things when you are looking for a summer job that you do when you are looking for your career job. It's really too late for students to try to find a summer internship in their chosen career field now, but there are a lot of other jobs still out there."
GEISLER ALSO stressed the importance of being organized for a job interview. He said that it was often helpful to research the job market and the background of prospective employers before interviewing.
"The key in preparing for an interview is to make note of your strong points, such as leadership, responsibility, et cetera. It is also important for the employer to know that you are organized." Geisler said.
Geisler said that the Placement Center was mainly geared toward helping students find career-related jobs, but that they had workshops that would help people prepare to look for any type of job.
Several workshops on interviewing and what to do after the interview, are scheduled before spring break. There is also a resume writing workshop scheduled after spring break. All 2011 Carruth O'Leary Hall. Students should contact the Placement Center for the exact times of the workshops.
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