For more information about this course:

Course Director: Larry Churchill, Ph.D.
larry.churchill@vanderbilt.edu 
Phone: 615.936.2686

Medicine is practiced and health care is delivered in a complex ethical, cultural and policy environment. This course introduces students to some of the fundamental components of this larger environment, including ethical and legal issues in medical practice, the social and cultural diversity of patients, and the basics of health care financing and organization in the US.