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This course is designed to engage post-bac students in thinking critically and empathetically about key issues encountered by healthcare professionals. The course, taught in seminar style, explores topics ranging from the social determinants of health and healthcare costs to provider-patient communication and death and dying in America by examining cases and readings that highlight the problems that doctors, administrators, researchers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals face on a daily basis. Guest speakers with a range of clinical backgrounds from physicians to social workers also come to class in order to share their path into medicine and daily life as a medical professional. Course content is focused around three specific course goals: 1) introducing post-bac students to key issues encountered daily by health providers; 2) providing post-bac students with a window into “a day in the life” of health providers in a variety of therapeutic areas through guest lectures; and 3) providing students opportunities to exercise the communication skills required in healthcare settings.