Department of Medical Education

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Department of Medical Education

Keck School of Medicine of USC
1975 Zonal Avenue KAM 218
Los Angeles, CA 90089
(323) 442-1875
Email: medkeck@usc.edu
keck.usc.edu/medical-education/

Donna Elliott, MD, EdD, Chair

Cha-Chi Fung, PhD, Vice Chair

Cathy Jalali,  PhD, Vice Chair

The Department of Medical Education was established in 1963 to support and transform the education of health professionals at the Keck School of Medicine. The department is vital to supporting Keck’s mission of educating physicians and advancing medical education more broadly through its provision and oversight of instructional design, faculty development, policy and curriculum development, student assessment, learner and program evaluation, student academic support, and by conducting and disseminating research in medical education. The department administers the MD program and co-administers the MD/PhD program, and contains the administrative offices of Admissions, Student Affairs, Curriculum, and Diversity and Inclusion. 

The department is the home for the Master of Academic Medicine and Master of Narrative Medicine programs and the undergraduate Minor in Health Care Studies. Additionally, the department has a number of dual degree programs such as the MD/PhD, MD/MPH and MD/MBA. The department also sponsors the annual Innovations in Medical Education Conference. 

Minor

• Health Care Studies Minor  

Programs

• Academic Medicine (MACM)  
• Narrative Medicine (MS)  
• Narrative Medicine Certificate   

Division of Integrative Anatomical Sciences

Bishop Hall 401
1333 San Pablo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9151
(323) 442-2771
FAX: (323) 442-2411
Email: laramire@usc.edu
keck.usc.edu/integrative-anatomical-sciences/

Faculty

Professor and Chair: E.R. Seiffert*

Professors: K.J. Carlson; R. Gopalakrishna*; B.A. Patel; R.I. Wood*

Associate Professors: A.K. Huttenlocker; K.L. Lewton*; C.P. McGowan*

Assistant Professors: T. Jashashvili; A.D. Kemp

Emeritus Professors: G. Albrecht*; T.H. McNeill*; J.E. Schechter; M. Snow*; D. Warren III

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

The Division of Integrative Anatomical Sciences provides training in the basic medical sciences to health professional students, and prepares graduate students as future teachers and researchers in the human anatomical sciences and functional morphology.

Integrative Anatomical Sciences Graduate Programs

Graduate training in Integrative Anatomical Sciences includes in-depth training in core anatomical disciplines: gross anatomy, histology and neuroanatomy, including cadaveric dissection and microscopic study of tissues. In addition, students receive an intensive introduction to fundamentals of bone and dental biology, human anatomical variation, and clinical anatomical correlations. Interested students can receive training in laboratory teaching for gross anatomy, or research training in functional and evolutionary morphology.

Programs

• Integrative Anatomical Sciences (MS)  
• Integrative Anatomical Sciences (PhD)  

Courses

• ACMD 501 Introduction to Academic Medicine Worldwide
• ACMD 502 Becoming a Leader in Academic Medicine
• ACMD 503 Leading Change in Academic Medical Centers
• ACMD 511 Instructional Design in Academic Medicine and Health
• ACMD 512 Competencies in Academic Medicine and Health
• ACMD 513 Professionalism in Academic Medicine and Health
• ACMD 514 Accreditation and Program Evaluation in Academic Medicine
• ACMD 591 Designing Research on Innovations in Academic Medicine
• ACMD 592 Implementing Research on Innovation in Academic Medicine
• ACMD 593 Foundations of Academic Writing
• ACMD 598 Fieldwork: Designing Innovations for the Health Professions
• ACMD 604 Supporting the Educational Enterprise in Academic Medicine
• ACMD 605 Faculty Development for Health Sciences Faculty Educators
• ACMD 614 Integrating Technology in Health Professions Education
• ACMD 615 Maintenance of Competence in the Health Professions
• ACMD 621 Capstone Portfolio for the Master of Academic Medicine

• IAS 501aL Human Gross Anatomy
• IAS 501bL Human Gross Anatomy
• IAS 502L Advanced Regional Anatomy I
• IAS 503L Advanced Regional Anatomy II
• IAS 504L Human Skeletal Anatomy
• IAS 505 Human Development: Clinically Oriented Embryology
• IAS 511aL Microscopic Anatomy I
• IAS 511bL Microscopic Anatomy II
• IAS 512L Pharmacology I
• IAS 513 Pharmacology II
• IAS 521 Neuroanatomy
• IAS 525 Neural Development
• IAS 530 Anatomy for the Artist
• IAS 531 Cell Biology
• IAS 534 Molecular Aspects of Neuropharmacology
• IAS 550 Integrative Anatomical Sciences Seminar
• IAS 561 Molecular Biology
• IAS 572 Medical Physiology I
• IAS 573 Medical Physiology II
• IAS 580 Teaching in the Anatomical Sciences
• IAS 581L Teaching in the Anatomical Sciences: Practicum
• IAS 590 Directed Research
• IAS 594a Master’s Thesis
• IAS 594b Master’s Thesis
• IAS 594z Master’s Thesis
• IAS 598 Introductory Laboratory Rotations
• IAS 599 Special Topics
• IAS 600 Literature Tutorial
• IAS 603 Current Topics in Vision Research
• IAS 604 Current Topics in Animal Development
• IAS 631 Morphogenesis and Regeneration
• IAS 641 Brain-Endocrine Interactions in Reproduction
• IAS 790 Research
• IAS 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• IAS 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• IAS 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• IAS 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• IAS 794z Doctoral Dissertation

• MDED 387w Community, Advocacy and Health Justice
• MDED 499 Special Topics
• MDED 501 Narrative Medicine I: Witnessing, Listening, Reflecting
• MDED 502 Narrative Medicine II: Methods and Pedagogy
• MDED 503 Creative Writing and Its Applications in Narrative Medicine
• MDED 504 Research Methods in Narrative Medicine
• MDED 505 Intersubjectivity: Lived Bodies/Relational Selves
• MDED 510 Narrative Ethics: Illness, Disability, Equity and Community
• MDED 511 Immigrants, Illness and Narrative Medicine
• MDED 512 Health Justice
• MDED 590 Directed Research
• MDED 593 Narrative Medicine Capstone