2016-2017 Symposia

 

Unconventional Medicine 
Career Perspectives

 

The vast field of medicine is expanding everyday, introducing new specialties to accommodate its spread into the seemingly unrelated realms of law, space discovery, and much more. However, while the medical field is being constantly reinvented by various inter-disciplinary ventures across the globe, many pre-medical college students confine themselves to one path to pursue a career in medicine: medical school, residency, and eventually a job as a physician. Introducing students to the many unusual careers in medicine and healthcare, not all of which take the traditional route of obtaining a medical degree, will open the minds of budding medical professionals to different aspects of this far-reaching field.

 

Thus, the Conversations in Medicine Lecture Series 2016-2017 will be set to the theme of “Unconventional Medicine” -- aspects of medicine often unheard of or overlooked, which value the very same qualities: critical thinking, lifelong learning, and the opportunity to make a difference in a person’s quality of life. The mission of this Series is to give students an insight into how a career in medicine can be constructed in creative ways, and how intellectual collaborations with law, engineering, public health, and numerous other areas of expertise can make a difference in the medical field.