Stanford University Bulletin

Code	Name	Description
ATHLETIC12	VARSITY - Baseball	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC13	VARSITY - Basketball (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC14	VARSITY - Basketball (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC15	VARSITY - Cross Country (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC16	VARSITY - Cross Country (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC17	VARSITY - Track and Field (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC18	VARSITY - Track and Field (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC19	VARSITY - Fencing (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC20	VARSITY - Fencing (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC21	VARSITY - Field Hockey	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC22	VARSITY - Football	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC23	VARSITY - Golf (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC24	VARSITY - Golf (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC25	VARSITY - Gymnastics (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC26	VARSITY - Gymnastics (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC27	VARSITY - Lacrosse	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC28	VARSITY - Rowing (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC29	VARSITY - Rowing (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC30	VARSITY - Lightweight Rowing	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC31	VARSITY - Sailing (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC32	VARSITY - Sailing (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC33	VARSITY - Soccer (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC34	VARSITY - Soccer (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC35	VARSITY - Softball	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC36	VARSITY - Squash	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC37	VARSITY - Swimming (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC38	VARSITY - Swimming (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC39	VARSITY - Diving (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC40	VARSITY - Diving (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC41	VARSITY - Synchronized Swimming	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC42	VARSITY - Tennis (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC43	VARSITY - Tennis (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC44	VARSITY - Volleyball (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC45	VARSITY - Volleyball (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC46	VARSITY - Beach Volleyball	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC47	VARSITY - Water Polo (Men)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC48	VARSITY - Water Polo (Women)	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC49	VARSITY - Wrestling	Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...
ATHLETIC61	CLUB - Martial Arts Experience	This course is offered to Martial Arts athletes who participate on credit approved Martial Arts teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a...
ATHLETIC63	CLUB - Climbing	his course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a week...
ATHLETIC64	CLUB - Equestrian	This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...
ATHLETIC65	CLUB - Rugby (Men)	This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...
ATHLETIC66	CLUB - Rugby (Women)	This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...
ATHLETIC67	CLUB - Squash (Men)	This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...
CBIO101	Cancer Biology	Experimental approaches to understanding the origins, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Focus on key experiments and discoveries with emphasis on genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Topics include carcinogens, tumor virology, oncogenes,...
CBIO240	Molecular and Genetic Basis of Cancer	Required for first-year Cancer Biology graduate students. Focus is on fundamental concepts in the molecular biology of cancer, including oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and cellular signaling pathways. Emphasis will be given to seminal discoveries...
CBIO242	Cellular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer	Required for first-year Cancer Biology graduate students, and for first- and second-year medical students intending to complete the Cancer Biology Scholarly Concentration. Focus is on the cellular biology of cancer, including discussion of basic bio...
CBIO243	Principles of Cancer Systems Biology	Focus is on major principles of cancer systems biology research that integrates experimental and computational biology in order to systematically unravel the complexity of cancer. The opportunity to embark on cancer systems biology research has been...
CBIO244	Lecture Series in Cancer Systems Biology	Presents new concepts in the field of cancer systems biology, demonstrating the integration of novel experimental and computational approaches for addressing outstanding critical questions in cancer biology. Invited speakers share insights about stat...
CBIO245	Lecture Seminar Series in Cancer Biology Program	Invited speakers share insights about state-of-the-art trends. Presents new concepts in the field of cancer biology. Science talks presented by students.
CBIO246	Clinical Cancer Research Internship Program	As this is a limited enrollment course, graduate students interested in this course will contact must be affiliated with Cancer Biology Ph.D. Program and must contact the primary instructor Dr. Majeti and the course director Drs. Attardi and Sage by...
CBIO260	Teaching in Cancer Biology	Practical experience in teaching by serving as a teaching assistant in a cancer biology course. Unit values are allotted individually to reflect the level of teaching responsibility assigned to the student.
CBIO275	Tumor Immunology	Tumor Immunology focuses on the mechanisms by which tumors can escape from and subvert the immune system and conversely on the ability of innate and adaptive arms of the immune system to recognize and eliminate tumors. Topics include: tumor antigens...
CBIO280	Cancer Biology Journal Club	Required of and limited to first- and second-year graduate students in Cancer Biology. Recent papers in the literature presented by graduate students. When possible, discussion relates to and precedes cancer-related seminars at Stanford. Attendance a...
CBIO290	Curricular Practical Training	No Description Set
CBIO299	Directed Reading in Cancer Biology	Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
CBIO370	Medical Scholars Research	Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
CBIO399	Graduate Research	Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Cancer Biology Ph.D. students must register as soon as they begin dissertation-related research work.
CBIO801	TGR Project	No Description Set
CBIO802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
CHPR113	Healthy/Sustainable Food Systems: Maximum Sustainability across Health, Economics, and Environment	Focus on problems with and systems-based solutions to food system issues. Four particular settings are addressed: University, worksite, hospital, and school food. Traditional vs. disruptive food system models compared and contrasted. The goal is to d...
CHPR130	Human Nutrition	(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 130. CHPR master's students must enroll in CHRP 130.) The study of food, and the nutrients and substances therein. Their action, interaction, and balance in relation to health and disease. Emphasis is on the bio...
CHPR166	Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context	(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 166. Med/Graduate students must enroll in CHRP 166.) The material in this course is an introduction to the field and the target audience is undergraduates. It may be of interest to graduate students unfamiliar w...
CHPR199	Undergraduate Research	Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
CHPR201	Introduction to Science of Healthy Living	This introduction to the science of healthy living (primarily U.S.) highlights preventable causes of mortality, i.e. modifiable risk factors, national lifestyle recommendations and behavioral change principles for reducing chronic disease risk. A lif...
CHPR202	R Fundamentals for Health Research	This introductory course is a practicum in which students will learn the basics of R, a free, open-source statistical analysis software program, and use the programming language to analyze health datasets by application of classical statistical metho...
CHPR205	Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine: Hands-on experience	How can one practice evidence-based medicine and make evidence-based decisions for clinical practice and policy making? Using pivotal papers published in the recent scientific literature addressing important clinical questions on diverse medical topi...
CHPR206	Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis	Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Ex...
CHPR207	Infectious Diseases: Community Health Impact and Prevention	This is an interactive course on Infectious Diseases with a combination lecture-workshop format and active students' participation. We will discuss diverse infectious diseases topics that have a significant community health impact and for which scree...
CHPR211	Introduction to Clinical Trials: Design, Conduct, and Analysis	This course covers basic concepts in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials. Various phases and designs of clinical trials will be discussed. Components of a trial protocol and the statistical analysis plan will be discussed. Data collec...
CHPR212	Methods for Health Care Delivery Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation	Preference given to postgraduate fellows and graduate students.Focus is on implementation science and evaluation of health care delivery innovations. Topics include implementation science theory, frameworks, and measurement principles; qualitative an...
CHPR220	Responsible Conduct of Research in the Community	This course will engage CHPR students pursuing community-based participatory research. Discussions will center around ethical and practical issues to prepare them for the CHPR program, including course planning, internship, thesis writing, and career...
CHPR226	Promoting Health Over the Life Course: the Science of Healthy Living	(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 126. Med/Graduate students must enroll in CHPR 226.) Disease prevention and health promotion topics pertinent at different stages of the life span emphasizing healthy lifestyle and reducing risk factors in both...
CHPR227	The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research	The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research course will focus on how the science of community engagement can be applied to diverse health-related research topics across the translational spectrum with the ultimate goal of high quality rese...
CHPR228	Theoretical Foundations and Design of Behavioral Intervention Trials	Focuses on the knowledge and skills, respect and thoughtful practice of designing health promotion interventions that are relevant, theoretically-informed, have broad impacts, and can endure. Provides an in-depth review of intervention approaches for...
CHPR230	Sexual Function and Diversity in Medical Disciplines	Focus is on development of personal and professional skills to interact with people across the diverse range of human sexuality, from childhood (pediatric) to older ages (geriatric), with consideration of gender identity, sexual orientation, sociocul...
CHPR232	Social and Structural Determinants of Health: Achieving Health Equity	This course examines the theoretical basis and societal context of the social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity. The focus of this course is on understanding the structural factors, including social, economic, and political mechanisms,...
CHPR233	Contemplative Science: The Power of the Pause for Resilience, Relationships, and Resolve	Advances in contemplative science reveal ways of caring for ourselves and others that promote health and well-being for individuals and communities. Study of diverse, evidence-based contemplative practices identifies why, how, and when specific pract...
CHPR234	Applying Contemplative Practices	Knowledge and skills for applying contemplative practices to promote individual and community health and well-being in a variety of settings (e.g., clinics, hospitals, non-profit and for-profit organizations, schools, government agencies, secular and...
CHPR236	Citizen Science Theory to Practice: Advancing Community-Driven Solutions for Health	Harnessing and activating the insights of community members and patients is essential to achieving health equity ¿from the bottom up.¿ Students will 1) learn and apply a novel datadriven, technology-enabled approach to improving community health thro...
CHPR237	Hunger & Food Insecurity: Challenges and Solution	This course will examine local, national, and global hunger issues and solutions. The focus of each class will acknowledge and examine the associations between health disparities, structural racism, systemic poverty, and the built environment that cr...
CHPR239	Contemplative Competence for Sustainability of Public and Planetary Health and Well-being	Through a contemplative approach, this course cultivates students' capacity to take skillful action to address climate change. Effective engagement with the daunting complexity inherent in the climate crisis requires calm contemplative competence. Th...
CHPR240	Prevention Research: the Science of Healthy Living	Features the research of faculty in the Stanford Prevention Research Center and focuses on key health issues over the life course (prenatal through childhood, young to middle-aged, older and elderly adults). Topics include chronic disease (global and...
CHPR241	Contemplative Movement and Mindful Physical Activity	Contemplative movement and mindful physical activity for individuals and communities is an emerging field with important implications for public health and well-being policies and programs, as well as clinical care for physical and emotional health....
CHPR242	The Science of Well-being: A Global Perspective	A scientific exploration of overall and multidimensional well-being. The course will provide an overview of the concept of well-being, its composition, assessment, and interpretation. This course is designed to advance understanding and knowledge of...
CHPR244	Contemplation by Design Summit: Translating contemplative science into timely community programming	Engage with contemplative science scholars, leaders, and teachers who apply contemplative practices to cultivate the democratic promise for equality, liberty, health, and well-being. This workshop immerses students in community-based engaged learning...
CHPR247	Methods in Community Assessment, Evaluation, and Research	Development of pragmatic skills for design, implementation, and analysis of structured interviews, focus groups, survey questionnaires, and field observations. Topics include: principles of community-based participatory research, including importance...
CHPR250	Prevention Across Medical Disciplines: Evidence-based Guidelines	Coordinated seminar series presenting evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention guidelines by research and clinical faculty of multiple divisions of Stanford's Department of Medicine, including cardiovascular medicine, oncology, nephrolo...
CHPR270	Prevention Across Surgical and Other Medical Disciplines	This course is coordinated seminar series that presents evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention guidelines by clinical and translational research and population health science faculty of clinical departments other than Medicine (the fo...
CHPR271	Human Molecular Genetics	For genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows interested in the practice of medical genetics and genomics. Gene structure and function; the impact of mutation and polymorphism as...
CHPR274A	A Case Based Approach to Clinical Genetics	For genetic counseling students and medical genetics residents and fellows. Case-based scenarios and guest expert lectures. Students learn skills in case preparation, management, and presentation, as well as content around common genetic disorders.
CHPR274B	A Case Based Approach to Clinical Genetics	For genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, and fellows. Case-based scenarios and guest expert lectures. Students learn skills in case preparation, management, and presentation, as well as content arou...
CHPR279	Pediatric and Adult Genetic Counseling	Internet based course for genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, and fellows; genetic counseling students should take this course in conjunction with their initial general genetics rotation. Topics in...
CHPR287	CARDIOVASCULAR GENETICS	Online course for genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, fellows, and nurses interested in inherited cardiovascular conditions. Genetic counseling students should take this course in conjunction with...
CHPR288	Cancer in Asian Americans: Epidemiology and Prevention	This course will provide an overview of cancer common or have higher risk (relative to other population) in Asian American populations. This course is designed to advance the understanding and knowledge of cancer etiology and prevention in Asian Amer...
CHPR290	Curricular Practical Training and Internship	CHPR masters students enroll for a letter grade in your mentor's section. Before the end of the second week of the quarter, enrolled students must submit a description of the expected learning outcomes and deliverables for each unit to the CHPR offic...
CHPR299	Directed Reading	Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Before the end of the second week of the quarter, enrolled students must submit a description of the expected learning outcomes and deliverables for each unit to the CHPR office. One unit= three hours of work per...
CHPR399	Community Health and Prevention Research Master's Thesis Writing	Thesis writing for Community Health and Prevention Research Program. Students enroll in thesis advisor's section. Non-medical students enroll for a letter grade. Before the end of the second week of the quarter, enrolled students must submit a descri...
CHPR801	TGR Project	No Description Set
FAMMED199	Undergraduate Directed Reading and Research in Family and Community Medicine	Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FAMMED201	Innovations in Patient and Family Centered Primary Care	Students work with their faculty mentor on individual or team-based projects and studies that are broadly centered around the aim of Patient and Family Centered Primary Care. Students are paired with clinical faculty based on their area of interest a...
FAMMED210	The Healer's Art	Stanford Healer's Art is a unique five-session course that provides a foundation for designing and living one's life with meaning and well-being as a physician and healer. The Healer's Art focuses on essential foundations of our humanity not explored...
FAMMED213	Medical Tai Chi	Tai chi is a recognized form of integrative and complementary medicine. This class promotes health and well-being by teaching how to decrease stress, depression, and anxiety through the practice of moving meditation. The course also includes the stud...
FAMMED215	Primary Care Defined: Perspectives and Procedures	Designed to give pre-clerkship students a broad overview of the diverse specialties and career trajectories available within the rewarding field of primary care. Students experience hands-on immersion in common office-based procedures, including absc...
FAMMED245	Women and Health Lecture Series	Lecture series. Topics of interest to anyone concerned about women's health issues. A journey from sex and gender through health screening, health disparity, family planning, heart health, mental health, and even beyond women's health in considering...
FAMMED252	Medicine & Horsemanship: An Outdoor, Equine Assisted Learning Course for Doctor-Patient Relationship	Medicine and Horsemanship is a unique outdoor experience working with horses to develop interpersonal skills, leadership qualities, and self-care techniques. A challenge throughout a clinical career is to conduct relationships with patients and colle...
FAMMED299	Directed Reading in Family and Community Medicine	Students organize an individualized study program in family and community medicine. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FAMMED301A	Family Medicine Core Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the management of diseases commonly encountered in the primary care setting. Emphasis is placed on patient-centered, efficient, equitable, cost-effective medical care of...
FAMMED310A	Continuity of Care Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: In the Continuity of Care Clerkship, students work with a preceptor in any field of medicine, including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and other sub-specialti...
FAMMED338E	Elective Clerkship in Family Medicine	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The objective of this 3 week clerkship is to provide clinical experience in the following areas: management of normal adult and pediatric patients; evaluation and treatment of co...
FAMMED344E	Family Medicine Elective Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Offers the student a flexible learning experience as part of a team of family physicians working closely with Stanford's Family Medicine Residency Program at O'Connor Hospital & In...
FAMMED345E	Family Practice Office Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Family medicine outpatient clinical experience, located in urban, suburban, or rural areas. The preceptor may be in private practice or in a health care center. Special opport...
FAMMED364E	Subinternship in Family Medicine	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Offers the student ready for an advanced experience similar to an internship a learning experience with an assigned patient load as part of a team of family physicians and worki...
FAMMED370	Medical Scholars Research	Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
FAMMED398A	Clinical Elective in Family Medicine	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides an opportunity for a student in the clinical years to have a clinical experience in one of the fields of Family Medicine, of a quality and duration to be decided upon by...
FAMMED399	Graduate Research	Students interested in conducting research in a specific area of family and community medicine undertake investigations sponsored by the faculty instructor. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
LEAD101	Leading at Stanford & Beyond: Skills for Changemaking & Community Building	Enhance your skills in leading and creating positive social change within the Stanford community and beyond. Deepen self-knowledge and self-awareness while building capabilities for leading in teams and communities. Rooted in the Social Change Model,...
LEAD103	Living on Purpose	Explore the art and science of purpose-finding as it relates to living a more flourishing life at Stanford and beyond. Investigate the contemplative, psychological, social, and communal factors that deepen meaning-making, support authenticity, and en...
LEAD104	Tools for Meaningful Communities	How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? W...
LEAD105	Art of Facilitation	This experiential education style course allows participants to develop and test their group facilitation skills. Students will explore delivering group initiatives surrounding popular leadership topics and learn how to help their group take away val...
LEAD106	Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter	In this experiential class, students will engage in meaningful, spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another. This class introduces students to models of spiritual wellness from different religious traditions, fosters dialogue across d...
LEAD106B	Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter: Creating Community	Engage in meaningful spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another, fostering a conversation across differences. Explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in daily life through experiential learning activities. Expand your religious l...
LEAD107	Living Leadership: Ecological and Contemplative Foundations	Given today's climate crisis and the associated stressors on human existence, this class engages the question: What kind of leadership is needed to guide humanity toward a sustainable, just and thriving future? Using the lens of "going inward to enga...
LEAD111	Luminaries and Changemakers: Life Lessons & Conversations with Extraordinary Leaders	Encounter luminaries and changemakers in the fields of leadership, business, social innovation, and change-making ranging from noted entrepreneurs and CEOs to social change agents, artists, and activists who are committed to enhancing individual and...
LEAD121	Peer Support: Creating Spaces for Healing and Growth	Social support is an integral part of the human experience and a core pillar of human well-being. Explore ways you can be an effective source of support for your peers, using models, skills, and practices rooted in positive psychology, leadership stu...
LEAD122	Leading with Integrity: ASSU Leadership Foundations	Strengthen your leadership capacities through deepened self-awareness drawing on values-driven leadership and ethical decision-making practices in this experiential leadership development course. This course, for ASSU student leaders, emphasizes your...
LEAD126	Outdoor Leadership Practicum	Outdoor education and leadership theory integration through intensive field-based experiences. During these field-based experiences, students will engage with critical self-assessment process to better understand their own levels of competence leadi...
LEAD150	Leading for Social Justice: The Practice and Power of Dialogue	This course uses a social justice framework to explore issues of identity, community, power and privilege with respect to diverse populations. We will explore historical and contemporary oppressions based on race, sex, gender identity, class, and oth...
LEAD198	Directed Reading and Individual Studies - Leadership	Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable projects or initiatives that make positive impact within and/or beyond the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the cours...
LEAD199	Selected Topics: Leadership Studies	Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course titles, please re...
LEAD95	Ensemble Leadership	This experiential course allows students to grow as leaders through immersion in leadership positions in the Stanford Band. Study and implement frameworks and tools that enhance leadership and team performance. Topics covered include traditional lead...
LIFE101	Tools for a Meaningful Life	Explores the foundational skills for a meaningful life. Features lectures and experiential practice workshops from instructors within and beyond the university. Draws on research and practices from fields related to psychology, literature, critical s...
LIFE102	Body Mapping: Embracing the Embodied Experiences of Your Life	Utilize an anthropological lens to combine traditional analytic research with experiential contemplative practice to strengthen awareness of the body and embodied experiences. Explore cultural norms around the body as influenced by racial stereotypes...
LIFE102A	Body Mapping: Tracing the Embodied Experiences of Your Life	Body Maps in various forms have been used for thousands of years by people searching for a better understanding of their bodies and their place in the world. This weekend intensive combines self-reflection, artistic expression, and an anthropological...
LIFE104	Tools for Meaningful Communities	How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? W...
LIFE105	Meeting the Moment: Inner Resources for Hard Times	In the face of social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are experiencing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. Challenging times ask us, in a voice louder...
LIFE120	Yoga Psychology for Resilience and Creativity	In this integrative class, learn about the practice, psychology, and philosophy of yoga as a conceptual model for well-being. Supported by findings in modern neuroscience and psychological research, yoga is an ancient, holistic modality that integrat...
LIFE124	Counterstory in Literature and Education	Counterstory is a method developed in critical legal studies that emerges out of the broad "narrative turn" in the humanities and social science. This course explores the value of this turn, especially for marginalized communities, and the use of cou...
LIFE125	The Stillness of the Dunes	An advanced writing course in nonfiction craft, drawing, and contemplative practice. a significant portion of each class meeting will focus on the development and sharpening of writing craft, especially of the essay, in a hybrid form both scholarly a...
LIFE144	Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, Gender, Sexuality, and Class	Exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between us and them, based on a belief that understanding the self leads to understanding others. How personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the individual, how self healing can lead to c...
LIFE150G	Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality	In this theory and practice-based course, students will examine performances by and scholarly texts about artists who critically and mindfully engage race, gender, and sexuality. Students will cultivate their skills as artist-scholars through written...
LIFE151	Feminist Life-Writing	This course explores life-writing as a form of feminist praxis. Feminist life-writing is an art form grounded in truth-telling, activism, and self-making that emerges from the long tradition of women writing private lives. Beginning with the politici...
LIFE161P	Dance and the Politics of Movement	This course examines how the dancing body has been viewed, exhibited, analyzed, and interpreted from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will discuss how ideologies about race, gender, and sexual orientation are mapped onto the body, as we...
LIFE170	Laughter & Play for Wellbeing	Learn about and practice laughter yoga, combined with theater exercises. Laughter yoga (distinct from traditional movement-based yoga) is a modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing. Explore the growing field of research on lau...
LIFE174S	When Half is Whole: Developing Synergistic Identities and Mestiza Consciousness	This is an exploration of the ways in which individuals construct whole selves in societies that fragment, label, and bind us in categories and boxes. We examine identities that overcome the destructive dichotomies of us and them, crossing borders of...
LIFE180	Art, Meditation, and Creation	Art and meditation invite us to be fully present in our minds and bodies. This class will give you tools to integrate mind and body as you explore artworks on display at the university's museums and throughout campus. In your engagement with activity...
LIFE185Q	Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility	We practice mindfulness as a way of enhancing well-being, interacting compassionately with others, and engaging in socially responsible actions as global citizens. Contemplation is integrated with social justice through embodied practice, experientia...
LIFE198	Directed Reading and Individual Studies - LifeWorks	Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable projects or initiatives that make positive impact within and/or beyond the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the cours...
LIFE199	Selected Topics: LifeWorks	Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty/instructor(s) and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course tit...
LIFE53Q	Storytelling in Medicine	Stories are at the core of medical practice, but the skills developed are applicable across disciplines, including technology and business. Storytelling in Medicine is a new sophomore seminar designed to teach skills in multiple modalities of storyte...
LIFE60N	The Psychology of Stoked	Examines the biological, psychological and social aspects of what it means to live a positive, life-affirming existence. Drawing from a wide range of sources, from psychiatry and psychology, to spirituality and philosophy, seminar informs on the late...
LIFE60N	The Psychology of Stoked	Examines the biological, psychological and social aspects of what it means to live a positive, life-affirming existence. Drawing from a wide range of sources, from psychiatry and psychology, to spirituality and philosophy, seminar informs on the late...
LIFE81	Claiming Your Stanford Experience: Encountering People, Ideas, and Places	Engage your Stanford experience at a deeper, more authentic level through conversations with luminary Stanford faculty and experiential, creative immersions into signature Stanford places and spaces. Using a weekly fireside chat format with a cross-s...
LIFE91CL	Self & Science	"Self & Science" mines the intersection of memoir and science writing. In this advanced experimental writing course, students will read a selection of essays by writers including Lewis Thomas, Oliver Sacks, Annie Dillard, and Mark Doty, which illustr...
LIFE99	Kinesthetic Delight: Movement and Meditation	The words meditation and mindfulness often conjure images of people sitting quietly in peaceful contemplation. However, as contemplatives and scholars from various fields have argued, though the brain resides in the cranium, the mind functions throug...
MED103	Human and Planetary Health	Two of the biggest challenges humanity has to face - promoting human health and halting environmental degradation - are strongly linked. The emerging field of Planetary Health recognizes these inter-linkages and promotes creative, interdisciplinary...
MED114	Frontier Technology: Understanding and Preparing for Technology in the Next Economy	The next wave of technological innovation and globalization will affect our countries, our societies, and ourselves. This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to frontier technology, the intersection where radical forward thinking and re...
MED121	Translational Research and Applied Medicine	(Same as MED 121; undergraduate students enroll in MED 121) Open to graduate students and medical students, this course enables students to learn basic principles in the design, performance and analysis of translational medical research studies. The...
MED124	Global Child Health	(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 124C. Med/Graduate students must enroll in MED 124 or PEDS 124.) This course introduces students to key challenges to the health and well being of children worldwide. We explicitly focus on child and public heal...
MED131	Exploring Israel's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for Sustaining Human & Planetary Health	Israel's innovation ecosystem is one of the most admired in the world. Israel is a leader in health, environmental, and ecological innovation, and despite its small size, Israel is home to a disproportionate number of successful start-ups. Israel com...
MED142	Modern Ethical Challenges in Neuroscience and Organ Transplantation	Today we face unprecedented innovations in neuroscience and medicine. While these advances offer new hope, they also challenge medical, legal, and ethical paradigms. We will explore the ethical constructs surrounding topics including brain death, bra...
MED147	Methods in Community Assessment, Evaluation, and Research	Development of pragmatic skills for design, implementation, and analysis of structured interviews, focus groups, survey questionnaires, and field observations. Topics include: principles of community-based participatory research, including importance...
MED155	You Can Make a Difference in Primary Care	This lunchtime seminar course is designed to give pre-clerkship students an overview of the amazing and rewarding field of primary care medicine. You'll meet nine primary care clinicians, each with a different area of interest and practice. You will...
MED157	Foundations for Community Health Engagement	Open to undergraduate, graduate, and MD students. Examination and exploration of community health principles and their application at the local level. Designed to prepare students to make substantive contributions in a variety of community health set...
MED159	Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border	Required for students participating in the Community Health in Oaxaca summer program. Introduction to the health literacy and health-seeking behaviors of Oaxacan and other Mexican migrants; the health challenges these groups face. Through discussion...
MED160	Physician Shadowing: Stanford Immersion in Medicine Series (SIMS)	Undergraduates are paired with a physician mentor at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, or the Veteran's Administration Hospital. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Application and acceptance to the SIMS progra...
MED175B	Biodesign Fundamentals	MED 175B/275B is an introduction to the Biodesign process for health technology innovation. This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology. Students will work on...
MED180	Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Ventures	The face of healthcare is changing - innovative technologies, based on recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), are radically altering how care is delivered. Startups are offering entirely new ways to diagnose, manage, treat, and operate. How...
MED181	Preparation for Early Clinical Experience at the Cardinal Free Clinics	Training course for new undergraduate volunteers at the Cardinal Free Clinics (CFCs). Topics include introduction to methods for providing culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations, clinic stru...
MED182	Early Clinical Experience at the Cardinal Free Clinics	The Cardinal Free Clinics, consisting of Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic, provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations in the Bay Area. Students volunteer in various clinic roles to offer se...
MED18SI	Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Ventures	The face of healthcare is changing - innovative technologies, based on recent advances in artificial intelligence, are radically altering how care is delivered. Startups are offering entirely new ways to diagnose, manage, treat, and operate. Few ever...
MED194	Global Health: Through an Equity Lens	In this course, current topics of global health will be discussed while focusing on an equity lens. Topics include decolonizing global health, climate and vulnerable populations, the poverty trap, inequities in reproductive rights, inequities for chi...
MED199	Undergraduate Research	Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
MED200	Primary Care Presentations	This course is a lecture series offered during the winter quarter. The aim of this seminar is to allow medical students to experience the mindset of primary care physicians in real time. Classes feature presentations of patient cases submitted by Sta...
MED201	Internal Medicine: Body as Text	Body as Text refers to the idea that every patient's body tells a story. The narrative includes the past and present of a person's social and medical condition; it is a demonstration of the phenotype. The art of reading the body as text was at its pe...
MED205	Launching a Healthcare Venture: The Nuts and Bolts of Founding a Start Up	This course prepares medical and graduate students to start their own healthcare venture. In the Spring quarter, students will work through the steps that can take them from ideation all the way through what to expect when fundraising, including: val...
MED206	Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis	Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Ex...
MED208	Health Systems Science: Measuring What Matters For Change	Physicians can and should be leaders in changing our health care systems for the better. To make our institutions more equitable, more efficient, and serve patients with the best of medical knowledge, we must use the same effective scientific methods...
MED210	Principles and Practice of Healthcare Quality Improvement	This course will introduce students to foundational concepts in healthcare quality improvement, and provide tools for translating these principles into practice. Topics include: current state, A3, SMART goals, root-cause analysis, metrics and measure...
MED211	Current Topics in Applied Medicine	Introduction to vaccines- discuss the basics of vaccines, including vaccines of infectious diseases vs. cancer vaccines and effective methods of vaccine delivery to achieve long-term memory immune response. Gene therapy- gene therapy for single gene...
MED212	Methods for Health Care Delivery Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation	Preference given to postgraduate fellows and graduate students.Focus is on implementation science and evaluation of health care delivery innovations. Topics include implementation science theory, frameworks, and measurement principles; qualitative an...
MED212A	MTRAM A: Translational Research Methods and Technologies: Cell Based Methods	In this quarter, students will learn the fundamentals of clinical sample processing, flow cytometry, CYTOF, Luminex, and nanoimmunoassays (NIA). Topics covered include applications, technical considerations, instrument set-up and QC, computational me...
MED212B	TR Technologies B - (Translational Proteomics)	In this quarter (Winter), students will learn the fundamentals of translational proteomics, antibody-drug conjugate analysis, peptide mapping, mass spectrometry operations and data analysis and data processing for mass spec experiments., how their ap...
MED212C	MTRAM Translational Technologies (TR): Translational genomics	This course is part of a three-quarter series (A, B, C) and complements courses offered as part of a master's in Translational Research and Applied Medicine (M-TRAM). (A: Fall: Biomarker Discovery; B: Winter: Translational Proteomics, C: Spring: Tran...
MED213	The Digital Future of Health Care	Digital health tools, technologies, and services are poised to fundamentally reshape how patients and physicians interact. COVID-19 has only accelerated this transformation. In this weekly seminar series led by clinicians, digital health investors, a...
MED214	Frontier Technology: Understanding and Preparing for Technology in the Next Economy	The next wave of technological innovation and globalization will affect our countries, our societies, and ourselves. This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to frontier technology, the intersection where radical forward thinking and re...
MED215	Causal Inference for Environment-Health Studies: A Survey of Recent Literature	Climate Change is perhaps the defining health challenge of our generation. Yet, despite widespread awareness and prominence, clime change's health impacts are notoriously hard to estimate. This is partly because, after all, we only have one planet, a...
MED215A	Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial I	Seminar series is the core tutorial for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all MS Health Policy students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems and reform and disparities...
MED215B	Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial II	Second in a three-quarter seminar series, the core tutorial is for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all MS Health Policy students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems...
MED215C	Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial III	The third in a three-quarter seminar series, this course is intended for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all Health Policy MS students. The course is structured as a student-led seminar, with participation by the Instructor and other facult...
MED216	Generative AI and Medicine	This seminar course will explore the applications of Generative AI Technologies (ChatGPT, DALL-E, and many others) to medicine and healthcare. Course meetings will include a mix of outstanding speakers from health, business and technology as well di...
MED217	Inpatient Medicine Shadowing Rotation	The objective of this rotation is to provide second year medical students the opportunity to experience the application of their medical education to clinical scenarios in the hospital. Students will have a one-day weekend shadowing opportunity (eith...
MED218	Principles of Business Strategy	Organizations need frameworks to plan for growth, respond to challenges and/or changes in the market, or tackle gaps in performance. This course explores how to assess business opportunities in dynamic, competitive environments to develop the insight...
MED219	Housing Equity & Intro to Community-led Case Management	This course will provide students with foundational skills in basic on-site case management, with a particular focus on benefits navigation. Through a combination of classroom instruction and service learning, students will develop an understanding o...
MED220	Bioethical Challenges of New Technology	How might we apply ideas from ethical theory to contemporary issues and debates in biotechnology? This course will provide critical encounters with some of the central topics in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on new technologies. Controvers...
MED221	Translational Research and Applied Medicine	(Same as MED 121; undergraduate students enroll in MED 121) Open to graduate students and medical students, this course enables students to learn basic principles in the design, performance and analysis of translational medical research studies. The...
MED222	You Can Make a Difference in Primary Care	This lunchtime seminar course is designed to give pre-clerkship students an overview of the amazing and rewarding field of primary care medicine. You'll meet nine primary care clinicians, each with a different area of interest and practice. You will...
MED223	Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences Seminar	Weekly seminar series featuring cardiovascular research by faculty. This course is intended for medical students, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students. On Tuesdays, students attend Frontiers in Cardiovascualr Science. On Thursdays...
MED224	Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health	Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Global & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in s...
MED225	Drug Development: From a Concept to the Clinic	This course is designed for medical students, trainees, basic scientists, clinicians and clinician-scientists at Stanford to provide an educational and practical perspective on the essential issues in drug development. Using a blend of seminars and d...
MED226	Practical Approaches to Global Health Research	(Formerly IPS 290 and HRP 237) How do you come up with an idea for a useful research project in a low resource setting? How do you develop a research question, prepare a concept note, and get your project funded? How do you manage personnel in the fi...
MED227	Drug Development: Key Issues in Regulation, Benefit vs. Risk, and Commercialization	This course is intended for medical students, graduate students, trainees, basic scientists, clinicians, and clinician scientists at Stanford to provide an educational and practical perspective of drug development: its incredible potential as well it...
MED228	Physicians and Social Responsibility	Social and political context of the roles of physicians and health professionals in social change; policy, advocacy, and shaping public attitudes. How physicians have influenced governmental policy on nuclear arms proliferation; environmental health...
MED229	Longevity	Interdisciplinary. Challenges to and solutions for the young from increased human life expectancy: health care, financial markets, families, work, and politics. Guest lectures from engineers, economists, geneticists, and physiologists.
MED230	Marketing Science and Patient Engagement	This course introduces the principles, processes, and tools necessary to analyze markets, including customers, competitors, and companies (the 3 Cs), and to design optimal marketing programs via strategies for pricing, promotion, place, and product (...
MED231	Physicians and firearms	Firearms ownership is a cultural phenomenon unique to the United States. In the US, there are 120 guns per 100 residents with over 40% of individuals, 34% of children, living in households with guns. Unfortunately, in the US, firearms are one of the...
MED232	Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings	Recent advances in health technologies - incorporating innovations like robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and smart sensors - have raised expectations of a dramatic impact on health outcomes across the world. However, bringing innov...
MED233	Global Health: Beyond Diseases and International Organizations	Provides multidisciplinary trainees insight into over-arching themes of global health. Topics include systemic issues affecting healthcare progress globally, ethical and thoughtful approaches to solving these issues, as well as economics, water sanit...
MED234	Meaning in Medicine: Staying Connected to What Matters Most	Burnout- defined as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and apathy toward one's work - is endemic in medicine. There is evidence that a significant cause of burnout is a loss of connection to deeper values. This course will help students identif...
MED235	Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems	The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid t...
MED236	Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health	Addressing societal health and the systemic (Social, Structural, Environmental) drivers of health is a new frontier of entrepreneurship to improve global and public health at scale. In this hybrid seminar-based and experiential course, you will learn...
MED237	Health Law: Improving Public Health	(Same as Law 3009) Examines how the law can be used to improve the public's health. Major themes explored include: what authority does the government have to regulate in the interest of public health? How are individual rights balanced against this a...
MED238	Leading and Managing Health Care Organizations: Innovation and Collaboration in High Stakes Settings	Leading and managing in complex, high stakes settings, like health care, where lives and livelihoods are on the line, presents distinctive challenges and constraints. This course challenges you to apply seminal and contemporary theories in organizati...
MED240	Sex and Gender in Human Physiology and Disease	(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 140. PhD minor in FGSS must enroll in FEMGEN 241. Med students must enroll in MED 240.) Chromosomal, hormonal and environmental influences that lead to male and female and intersex reproductive anatomy and physi...
MED241	Clinical Skills for Patient Care in Free Clinics	Enrollment in this course is by application only for advanced volunteers at the Cardinal Free Clinics. Focus is on preparing students to gain early clinical experience by teaching basic skills such as taking patient histories, working with interprete...
MED242	Human Rights and Health	Weekly lectures on how human rights violations affect health. Topics include: regional conflict and health, the health status of refugees and internally displaced persons; child labor; trafficking in women and children; HIV/AIDS; torture; poverty, th...
MED243	Citizen Science Theory to Practice: Advancing Community-Driven Solutions for Health	Harnessing and activating the insights of community members and patients is essential to achieving health equity ¿from the bottom up.¿ Students will 1) learn and apply a novel datadriven, technology-enabled approach to improving community health thro...
MED245	Leadership in Medicine: Developing your Moral Identity	Students will view videos of well-known leaders being interviewed or watch a live interview of the chief communications officer of Stanford School of Medicine each week. All this will be conducted through zoom conferencing for students to connect fro...
MED246	Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences	Traditional climate change courses introduce students to a wide array of scientifically and emotionally challenging subjects without acknowledging the significant distress that climate learners often experience from studiously bearing witness to ecol...
MED246	The Medical Interview for Spanish Speakers	Student led forum for practicing and learning medical Spanish related specifically to the medical interview. Prepares clinical students to interact more effectively with Spanish speaking patients in clinics. Classes are topical; each class includes...
MED247	Methods in Community Assessment, Evaluation, and Research	Development of pragmatic skills for design, implementation, and analysis of structured interviews, focus groups, survey questionnaires, and field observations. Topics include: principles of community-based participatory research, including importance...
MED248	Student Rounds	Teams of preclinical students meet weekly with a clinical student to hear the history and physical of a recent case the clinical student encountered on the wards. Following the presentation, the preclinical students work together under the guidance o...
MED249	Topics in Health Economics I	Course will cover various topics in health economics, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Topics will include public financing and public policy in health care and health insurance; demand and supply of health insurance and healthcare; physi...
MED250	Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine: Hands-on experience	How can one practice evidence-based medicine and make evidence-based decisions for clinical practice and policy making? Using pivotal papers published in the recent scientific literature addressing important clinical questions on diverse medical topi...
MED251	The A to Z of Translational Medicine	This multidisciplinary course is designed to train students in applying translational research approaches to solve fundamental problems in healthcare delivery. The class is focused on addressing real-world problems in a creative, interdisciplinary te...
MED252	Outcomes Analysis	This course introduces and develops methods for conducting empirical research that address clinical and policy questions that are not suitable for randomized trials. Conceptual and applied models of causal inference guide the design of empirical res...
MED253	Building for Digital Health	This project-based course will provide a comprehensive overview of key requirements in the design and full-stack implementation of a digital health research application. Several pre-vetted and approved projects from the Stanford School of Medicine wi...
MED255	The Responsible Conduct of Research	Forum. How to identify and approach ethical dilemmas that commonly arise in biomedical research. Issues in the practice of research such as in publication and interpretation of data, and issues raised by academic/industry ties. Contemporary debates a...
MED256	Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening	This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating 'See One, Do One, Teach One' with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful i...
MED257	Yoga: Tools for Transformation	Yoga is a technology to bring the body and mind to the peak of their capabilities, allowing one to live life to the fullest. This course is a series of six interactive webinars that provide you with simple but powerful tools to enhance your health an...
MED258	Stanford Technology Access Resource Team: A Primary Care Effort to Bridge the Telehealth Divide	Video visits have been invaluable during the COVID pandemic for patients and providers and will continue to serve as a vital connection between patients and their care team beyond COVID-19. However, many patients cannot access this resource due to ch...
MED259	Current Topics in Applied Medicine	Introduction to vaccines- discuss the basics of vaccines, including vaccines of infectious diseases vs. cancer vaccines and effective methods of vaccine delivery to achieve long-term memory immune response. Gene therapy- gene therapy for single gene...
MED260	Biodesign: Need in Finding Healthcare	Open to School of Medicine-affiliated graduate students (MD and MSPA). NO prior engineering background necessary. Introduction to the Biodesign innovation process for patient-centered medical technology development, centered on the role of clinicians...
MED261	Leadership in Health Equity and Community Engagement: Creating New Educational Opportunities	Creating Capacity in Community Engagement Medical Education is a new course for first/second-year medical students with an interest in both community health and medical education. In a small group, faculty-facilitated setting, students will design an...
MED262	Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries	Application of economic paradigms and empirical methods to health improvement in lower-income countries. Emphasis is on unifying analytic frameworks and evaluation of empirical evidence. How economic views differ from public health, medicine, and epi...
MED263	Advanced Decision Science Methods and Modeling in Health	Advanced methods currently used in published model-based cost-effectiveness analyses in medicine and public health, both theory and technical applications. Topics include: Markov and microsimulation models, model calibration and evaluation, and proba...
MED265	Advanced Topics in the Economics of Health and Medical Care	Emphasis is on research studies in health economics. Seminar style course focuses on health economics. Complimentary with HRP 256. Students will be expected to read and present papers to the group and discuss concepts with faculty. Restricted to seco...
MED266	Literacy: A Fundamental Human Right Toward Health and Advocacy	This is a Community Engaged learning seminar style course that meets once a week for an hour and a half. We will have seminar discussions and readings related to local health literacy issues, and the systemic factors affecting health literacy throug...
MED267	Professional Ethics Across Sectors	Ethics arise in many aspects of professional life and work environments, whether in corporations, government, the academy, or non-profit organizations. Leaders face increasing challenge internally and externally as well. Age-old challenges from racis...
MED268	Tackling Asian-American Health Challenges	Why do certain diseases like hepatitis B affect Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) disproportionately? How can public policy advance health equity among ethnic groups? Weekly lectures examine health challenges endemic to the API community, recognizing un...
MED269	Health Equity Advancement and Leadership Through Community Engagement (HEAL-CE)	Health Equity Advancement and Leadership Through Community Engagement (HEAL-CE) is a new course for first and second-year medical students with an interest in better understanding how to engage with communities as physicians to advance a health equit...
MED269B	Health Equity and Social Justice - SC Core Skills Course	Offered in the Summer of 2023 and each Spring/Summer quarter thereafter. This course focuses on building core skills necessary to effectively engage in social justice & health equity change work. During this 10-week course, students will acquire tool...
MED270	Learning & Teaching of Science	This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergrad...
MED271	Global Biodesign: Medical Technology in an International Context	This course (BIOE371, MED271) exposes students to the challenges and opportunities of developing and implementing innovative health technologies to help patients around the world. Non-communicable diseases, such as metabolic and chronic respiratory d...
MED272	Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine	Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a unique system for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as for the cultivation of life-long health and well-being. This course introduces basic TCM theories, practices, and treatment methods including...
MED272A	Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation	In this two-quarter course series ( BIOE 374A/B, MED 272A/B, ME 368A/B, OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into pat...
MED272B	Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation	In this two-quarter course series ( BIOE 374A/B, MED 272A/B, ME 368A/B, OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into pat...
MED273	Biodesign for Digital Health	Health care is facing significant cross-industry challenges and opportunities created by a number of factors, including the increasing need for improved access to affordable, high-quality care; growing demand from consumers for greater control of the...
MED274	Introduction to Cardiovascular Medicine	Weekly lunch seminar series featuring residents, fellows, and faculty of the Department of Medicine's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. This course aims to introduce preclinical medical and physician assistant students to the diverse field of card...
MED275B	Biodesign Fundamentals	MED 175B/275B is an introduction to the Biodesign process for health technology innovation. This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology. Students will work on...
MED275B	Biodesign Fundamentals	MED 175B/275B is an introduction to the Biodesign process for health technology innovation. This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology. Students will work on...
MED276	Caring for Individuals with Disabilities	Over 61 million individuals in the US have a disability; however, this group of patients is often neglected in medical education. This interactive seminar course has been designed to better prepare students to care for patients with disabilities. Thr...
MED277	AI-Assisted Care	AI has been advancing quickly, with its impact everywhere. In healthcare, innovation in AI could help transforming of our healthcare system. This course offers a diverse set of research projects focusing on cutting edge computer vision and machine le...
MED278	Stanford Health Consulting Group- Leadership	This course is application-based and will be composed of students who have taken Stanford Health Consulting Group - Core and who wish to take on leadership roles in organizing and managing the high-impact health care projects for the class, which add...
MED279	Stanford Health Consulting Group - Core	This course provides the opportunity to analyze and solve major strategic and operational challenges in health care delivery and innovation through interdisciplinary team projects. Teams will receive direct mentorship from Stanford Medicine faculty,...
MED282	Early Clinical Experience at the Cardinal Free Clinics	The Cardinal Free Clinics, consisting of Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic, provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations in the Bay Area. Students volunteer in various clinic roles to offer se...
MED285	Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab	Are you interested in innovative ideas and strategies for addressing urgent challenges in human and planetary health and creating sustainable societies? This 7 session lecture series features a selection of noteworthy leaders, innovators, and experts...
MED286	Health Information Technology and Strategy	Health Information technology was intended to help reduce and cost and improve the quality of health care services. TO date, this is little evidence that this goal has been achieved. This course is designed to explore economic frameworks that can hel...
MED288	Perspectives on Cancer	Cancer consumes the lives of those associated with it: patients and their loved ones, their medical staff, and often the larger community. This course will address the broad impact of cancer from multiple fronts (medical, social, mental, etc.) by pro...
MED289	Introduction to Bioengineering Research	Preference to medical and bioengineering graduate students with first preference given to Bioengineering Scholarly Concentration medical students. Bioengineering is an interdisciplinary field that leverages the disciplines of biology, medicine, and e...
MED290	Independent Study with Presence and the Program in Bedside Medicine	Students work with their faculty mentor on projects and studies that are broadly centered around the vision and mission of Presence: The Art and Science of Human Connection and the Program in Bedside Medicine. Please see our websites for updated proj...
MED291	Diagnostic Medicine on Television: Truths vs. Theatrics	School of Medicine faculty in charge of Stanford's Consultative Medicine Clinic, a real-life medical mystery clinic, will review cases from the popular TV show House and critique the show's depiction of complex disease diagnosis and treatment. We tre...
MED294	Global Health: Through an Equity Lens	In this course, current topics of global health will be discussed while focusing on an equity lens. Topics include decolonizing global health, climate and vulnerable populations, the poverty trap, inequities in reproductive rights, inequities for chi...
MED295	Advanced Cardiac Life Support	(For clinical MD students only) Prepares students to manage the victim of a cardiac arrest. Knowledge and skills necessary for resuscitation of critically ill patients. Clinical scenarios and small group discussions address cardiovascular pharmacolog...
MED296	Being Mortal: Medicine, Mortality and Caring for Older Adults	Mortality is the inevitable, final outcome of human health. Though medical education focuses on treating illness and prolonging life, healthcare professionals in practice must face the fact that patients lives cannot always be saved. This course will...
MED297	Diabetes 101 for Healthcare Providers	Diabetes is an extremely high-prevalence disease, that you will likely encounter on a consistent basis regardless of your medical specialty, so learning about the practical aspects of treatment is extremely useful. This course is designed to teach th...
MED299	Directed Reading in Medicine	Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
MED299M	TRIP: Translational Research Independent Project required of all MTRAM students	TRIP will be a translational research capstone project that will require approximately 5 hours per week 2nd through 4th quarter for a total of about 150 hours and enable each student to test a hypothesis, develop an experimental plan, interpret resul...
MED300A	Internal Medicine Core Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the natural history, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of medical illness. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the understanding, skills, and attitudes desirable in a...
MED302A	Infectious Diseases Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The infectious diseases clerkship features an active inpatient service at Stanford Hospital, which averages two to four new consults per day. As a consulting specialty service with...
MED302B	Infectious Diseases Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The infectious diseases clerkship features an active inpatient service at the Palo Alto VA, which averages one to three new consults per day. As a consulting specialty service with...
MED302C	Infectious Diseases Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the skills of diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, including acute illnesses seen in the economically disadvantaged, and subspecialty patient referrals. The form...
MED303A	Cardiology Clerkship-Inpatient/Outpatient Consult	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Emphasizes the acquisition of diagnostic skills related to cardiovascular evaluation. This experience is derived through active participation in the inpatient consultative cardi...
MED303B	Cardiology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Exposes the students to all areas of clinical cardiology. Students participate in four half-day ambulatory care cardiology clinics on Tuesdays, perform at least 3-5 new consulta...
MED303C	Cardiology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Students are part of a cardiology team that consults on hospitalized patients, sees outpatients one half day session/week, and attends didactic conferences including:Internal Me...
MED304A	Cardiovascular Medicine Clerkship - Inpatients	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: General cardiology rotation remains part of the bread and butter core of internal medicine inpatient rotations. Advances in diagnostic imaging, rapid bedside testing and evidenc...
MED305A	Hematology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Exposes students to the conceptual basis of hematology, the factual information that is available, and the responses required for consultation and patient care in rapidly evolving...
MED306A	Endocrinology and Metabolism Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Provides students with a comprehensive experience in clinical endocrinology by combining inpatient and outpatient experiences at Stanford. Students may also participate in clini...
MED308A	Immunology/Rheumatology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: A comprehensive clinical experience in rheumatology. Students attend five weekly clinics, gaining familiarity with the evaluation of new patients and the longitudinal follow-up of...
MED308C	Rheumatology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Introduces students to patients with different forms of arthritis and related rheumatic diseases. Emphasis is on the specific examination of muscles, bones, and joints and importan...
MED311D	Advanced Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: The Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center offers a dynamic academic clinical clerkship in advanced medicine. Students serve as the primary provider for their patients:...
MED312C	Advanced Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Involves an advanced level of inpatient care responsibility. Under the close supervision of faculty and residents the student is expected to function as an intern, caring for th...
MED313A	Ambulatory Medicine Core Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: In the ambulatory medicine clerkship, students will attend ambulatory clinics and didactics over the course of the four weeks. All students will attend Monday morning ambulatory...
MED314A	Advanced Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Intended for students in their second clinical year who are able to proceed to an advanced experience similar to an internship. Students see patients with a wide variety of int...
MED317C	Medical ICU Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: An in-depth, four-week rotation in the general medical ICU of the SCVMC. Students work as an integral part of a large ICU team aiding housestaff in managing a wide range of critic...
MED318A	Palliative Medicine	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The clerkship provides medical students in-depth exposure to palliative care across the continuum of care including several ambulatory clinics, an inpatient consult service, and ho...
MED319E	The Community Health of the Underserved Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: The Community Health of the Underserved clerkship is part of the Racial Equity to Advance a Community of Health (REACH) Initiative. The clerkship will provide students with a...
MED321A	Inpatient Medical Oncology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Offers an intensive, inpatient, subspecialty care experience, equivalent to a subinternship. Students are responsible for 2 to 5 patients who are seriously ill with a broad rang...
MED322A	Outpatient Medical Oncology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Familiarizes students with the subspecialty of medical oncology through subspecialty patient care in clinics and tumor boards and attending the weekly conferences of the Divisio...
MED323A	Trans-Disciplinary Breast Oncology Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: This 4 week trans-disciplinary breast oncology clerkship cuts across the relevant treatment modalities and emphasizes interdisciplinary, patient-centered care. Breast cancer i...
MED325A	Gastroenterology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Involves participation in inpatient consultations and outpatient clinics. Students are responsible for evaluating patients with major diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal tra...
MED325B	Gastroenterology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Gives students responsibility for both inpatient consultations and the evaluation and treatment of referred patients in the Gastroenterology clinic. Rounds with the faculty consult...
MED325C	Gastroenterology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides experience in outpatient and inpatient gastroenterology (GI). In the mornings, students will evaluate outpatients referred to GI clinic and will also have a...
MED326A	Hepatology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Involves participation in inpatient consultations and outpatient clinics for 4 weeks. The goals are to familiarize students with evaluation and management of patients with major li...
MED328A	Addiction Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors (only select visiting students who are pre-approved). TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Due to COVID some rotation sites such as County sites may be unavailable. During COVID most visit will be virtual and 3 days...
MED330A	Pulmonary Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Helps students develop the attitudes and skills necessary for the evaluation and management of patients with pulmonary disease. Students are expected to understand pulmonary diseas...
MED330C	Pulmonary Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Affords students an opportunity to deal with a broad range of clinical pulmonary problems. Working as part of a busy consulting service, students develop a practical approach to ev...
MED331A	Advanced Work in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The content of this clerkship is flexible. Students can do additional clinical work in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine or research work in the Division of Pulmonary and Critic...
MED334A	Nephrology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides students with an introduction to clinical nephrology, including diseases of the kidney and disorders of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance. The clerkship is availab...
MED334C	Nephrology Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Students see patients in the outpatient renal clinic, and on an active inpatient service. The diverse patient population at SCVMC enables student to encounter patients with a wide...
MED338A	Outpatient Infectious Diseases Elective	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides medical students with an elective course of 2 weeks of outpatient ID experience. Clinical experiences will focus on antibiotic selection, utilization and...
MED339B	Advanced Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Intended for clinically experienced students who seek an advanced experience similar to an internship. PREREQUISITES: MED 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks...
MED340B	Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and the multidisciplinary approa...
MED342A	Geriatric Medicine Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: This clinical experience introduces students to the principles of effective geriatric care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Geriatric faculty and fellows work with stu...
MED343B	Palliative Care Clerkship	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the natural history, prognostication, and management of serious illnesses. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes desirable in a compassion...
MED344A	Elective in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Organizational Change	VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Mentored practice and growth in knowledge, skills, and attitudes in quality improvement, patient safety, and organizational change. Students engage in directed readings, attend ses...
MED347A	Stanford Perioperative Internal Medicine Rotation	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The Stanford Perioperative Internal Medicine elective is a two-week inpatient rotation that will provide the students a clinical immersive experience in medical management of Ort...
MED370	Medical Scholars Research	Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
MED390	Curricular Practical Training	CPT Course required for international students completing degree requirements.
MED397A	MD Capstone Experience: Preparation for Residency	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This 1-week clerkship provides senior medical students an opportunity to review and practice a wide variety of knowledge and skills that are essential to preparing them to work e...
MED398A	Clinical Elective in Medicine	VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides an opportunity for a student in the clinical years to have a clinical experience in one of the fields of Medicine, of a quality and duration to be decided upon by the st...
MED399	Graduate Research	Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
MED399M	MTRAM clinical and/or translational research rotation	Students are paired with a research or clinical mentor for a rotation (School of Medicine faculty or Stanford University service center/core facility director or physician mentor at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, o...
MED53Q	Storytelling in Medicine	Stories are at the core of medical practice, but the skills developed are applicable across disciplines, including technology and business. Storytelling in Medicine is a new sophomore seminar designed to teach skills in multiple modalities of storyte...
MED54Q	Decolonizing Global Health	In this seminar, we will look at how global health discourse has changed over the years and discuss possible future directions for global health exchanges. This course will introduce students to the various definitions of global health from colonial...
MED71N	Hormones in a Performance-Enhanced Society	(Formerly 117Q) Preference to first-year students. Explores how the availability of hormone therapy has affected various aspects of daily lives. Topics include the controversies concerning menopause and its treatment; use of hormones in athletics; co...
MED73N	Scientific Method and Bias	Offers an introduction to the scientific method and common biases in science. Examines theoretical considerations and practical examples where biases have led to erroneous conclusions, as well as scientific practices that can help identify, corre...
OUTDOOR60	Introduction to Flyfishing	Introduces students to flyfishing and its constituent components as a sport and an art. Emphasizes basic skills needed to learn how to cast and tie knots. Students will learn basic stream ecology in order to better understand complex aquatic ecosyste...
OUTDOOR9	Travel as a Sacred Journey Towards Presence, Practice, and Purpose	Engage travel and pilgrimage as intentional contemplative practice for exploring one's life purpose. Experientially investigate, both individually and collectively, outer journeying as a support for inner reflection on meaning making and values creat...
WELLNESS102A	Body Mapping: Tracing the Embodied Experiences of Your Life	Body Maps in various forms have been used for thousands of years by people searching for a better understanding of their bodies and their place in the world. This weekend intensive combines self-reflection, artistic expression, and an anthropological...
WELLNESS105	Meeting the Moment: Inner Resources for Hard Times	In the face of social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are experiencing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. Challenging times ask us, in a voice louder...
WELLNESS106	Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter	In this experiential class, students will engage in meaningful, spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another. This class introduces students to models of spiritual wellness from different religious traditions, fosters dialogue across d...
WELLNESS106B	Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter: Creating Community	Engage in meaningful spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another, fostering a conversation across differences. Explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in daily life through experiential learning activities. Expand your religious l...
WELLNESS107	Behavior Design: Tiny Habits for Health and Happiness	Enrich your life with more humor and happiness, guided by BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab. This course covers how human behavior really works, the Tiny Habits method, the myths of motivation, and a systematic way to design your li...
WELLNESS110	The Science of Motivation and Procrastination	Examine the factors that increase motivation and decrease procrastination from a scientific point of view. Investigate research and models of motivation and procrastination in task engagement arising from the fields of psychology, behavioral economi...
WELLNESS111	Exploring Happiness	Explores how research-based happiness theory and principles are applied to enhance daily and life satisfaction. Positions happiness as a cornerstone construct of personal wellness, purpose, and fulfillment. Investigates the science of happiness throu...
WELLNESS113	Sleep For Peak Performance	Do you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or experience daytime fatigue? Sleep is a basic form of human nourishment that affects every aspect of performance. This course covers rudimentary neuroscience while focusing on techniques to enhanc...
WELLNESS114	Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing Your Effectiveness and Balance	Examine the science and practice of emotional intelligence and how it increases effectiveness and balance. Utilize leading frameworks and tools for enhancing emotional and social intelligence, including the understanding, managing, perceiving, and us...
WELLNESS115	Why Decisions are Difficult: Making Wise Choices from Love to Lunch	Examine why making decisions can be difficult and how making wiser decisions enhances satisfaction, happiness, and life success. Investigate practical decision-making frameworks and skills while building awareness around common decision-making fallac...
WELLNESS116	Resilience: How to Bounce Back	Examine the science and practice of resilience. Investigate the emerging field of resilience studies and learn the frameworks and skills that allow people to bounce back more quickly and effectively from life challenges. Topics include mindset and co...
WELLNESS117	Changing For Good: Behavior Change Science & Practice	Change behaviors using evidence-based techniques. Addresses the roles of habit cycles, procrastination mitigation, productivity enhancement, motivational factors, self-compassion, and addiction and addictive processes (both substances and non-substan...
WELLNESS118	Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills	Learn to cultivate and sustain emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy in relationships. Course takes a sex-positive approach. In addition to scholarly readings on science-based perspectives, the course includes individual, paired, and group exercis...
WELLNESS119	Cultivating Healthy Romantic Relationships	Explore the factors that support healthy romantic relationships from psychological, sociological, historical, and cultural perspectives. Investigate the questions, What is a healthy romantic relationship and how do I know if my relationship is health...
WELLNESS122	Work With Purpose: Design Your Career	Presents meaningful work as an essential component for life-long wellbeing. Discusses decision making, navigating change, mindfulness, self-compassion, and resilience as these topics relate to your career journey. Blends lecture, discussion, individu...
WELLNESS123	Living on Purpose	Explore the art and science of purpose-finding as it relates to living a more flourishing life at Stanford and beyond. Investigate the contemplative, psychological, social, and communal factors that deepen meaning-making, support authenticity, and en...
WELLNESS125	Live Better Longer: Enhancing Healthspan for Longer Lifespan	Explore ideas and practices that extend healthspan, the number of years we live free of disease or disability. Translate scientific research around current healthspan theories and understand social behaviors and available technologies that support ra...
WELLNESS127	Driving Your Metabolism	Examine the main factors impacting metabolic rate including stress, sleep, movement, and nutrition. Review the science behind the continual need for nourishment from these factors and how they work together synergistically down to the level of gene e...
WELLNESS130	Meditation	Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Practices in guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion, mindfulness and mantra meditation will...
WELLNESS130A	Meditation	Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Practices in guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion, mindfulness and mantra meditation will...
WELLNESS131	Compassion Meditation	Compassion meditation is an ancient, much studied practice of cultivating care for all beings, including ourselves. This course introduces the various dimensions of compassion and mindfulness meditation, emphasizing experiential learning of practices...
WELLNESS132	Breathwork for Wellbeing	Discover the power of the breath as a gateway to reach a meditative state of mind. Combine meditative practice with activities that inspire connection and purpose through community building and mindful leadership. Learn through breathwork, meditation...
WELLNESS133	Meditation Retreat: Weekend Campus Intensive	Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Selected practices in focused attention, mindfulness, guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion...
WELLNESS135	Mindful Self-Compassion, Strength, and Courage	Investigate how harsh self-criticism adversely impacts well-being, strength, and performance. In contrast, explore how mindful self-compassion (MSC) enhances emotional well-being, increases resilience and strength in coping with life challenges, and...
WELLNESS136	Meditation and the Brain: Practicing the Science and Art of Contemplation	Investigate the power of meditation for training the mind and changing the brain, specifically in focusing attention, enhancing awareness, and generating compassion. Going beyond meditation as a tool for simply reducing stress, this course grounds th...
WELLNESS138	Mindfulness and Stress Management	Effectively manage stress through mindfulness meditation strategies (sitting and movement-based) that positively impact the brain-body system to enhance clarity, focus, and energy. Examine tools for assessing perceived stress and mindfulness, current...
WELLNESS140	Wellness Through Queerness	Explore the intersection of queerness, sexuality and wellbeing. Learn skills and practices to associate queerness with thriving and flourishing. This course integrates empirical psychological and neuroscientific research, community history, and healt...
WELLNESS141	Flourishing While BIPOC: Reclaiming our Ways of Wellness	This class will offer important life skills centering the needs, experiences and challenges of BIPOC students. Skills/topics covered may include communication and relationship skills, interviewing for jobs, self- and community-care, and cooking/meal...
WELLNESS142	The Art of Grief	Learn the fundamentals of grief education. Explore artistic and cultural expressions of grief and psychological meaning-making after loss. Utilize readings from psychology, engage in class discussions, and explore a range of creative modalities acros...
WELLNESS150	Introduction to Nutrition	Optimize nutrition for health and performance based on established and emerging research. Discern between popular trends and scientific understandings of healthy nutrition and nutritional habits. Topics include evidence-based analysis of macronutrien...
WELLNESS152	Mindfulness and Food	What is it like to savor life and build on a positive relationship with food? Explore how mindfulness practice and intuitive eating principles can bring awareness to factors that influence mind-body health and well-being. This experiential class cove...
WELLNESS156	Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine	Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a unique system for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as for the cultivation of life-long health and well-being. This course introduces basic TCM theories, practices, and treatment methods including...
WELLNESS158	Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening	This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating "See One, Do One, Teach One" with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful...
WELLNESS160	Wellbeing Technology, Design, and Leadership	Wellbeing technologies come with tremendous potential and innate challenges. At their best these technologies can help humans heal, grow, and expand their minds. When used out of integrity, privacy can be breached, anxiety and hypervigilance increase...
WELLNESS162	Digital Wellbeing: Healthy Relationships with Technology	We live in a brave new world where technology is integrated into almost every aspect of daily living, which has benefits and drawbacks. A creative approach to designing a mindful, healthy integration of technology with lifestyle can influence flouris...
WELLNESS163	Meditation and Technology	Challenge the traditional definition of meditation while examining and using the latest meditation technologies that amplify attention and awareness. Learn how these technologies can be integrated into existing practices or help support new meditator...
WELLNESS164	Designing Wellbeing	Design processes and technologies that support wellbeing and human connection. Learn about research-based models of human flourishing, explore existing technologies, and interact with innovators and thought leaders in the field of transformative desi...
WELLNESS170	Laughter & Play for Wellbeing	Learn about and practice laughter yoga, combined with theater exercises. Laughter yoga (distinct from traditional movement-based yoga) is a modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing. Explore the growing field of research on lau...
WELLNESS171	Laugh to Relax	Learn about and practice laughter yoga, a unique and playful modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing (this practice is distinct from traditional movement-based yoga). Explore the growing field of research on laughter yoga and...
WELLNESS183	Financial Wellness for a Healthy, Long Life	This course will ground you in the knowledge, skills, and habits you need to identify and achieve your financial goals. We will infuse behavior science and psychology into our exploration of personal finance concepts (e.g., credit, debt, saving, and...
WELLNESS191	Peer Education on Comprehensive Sexual Health	Presented by the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center (SHPRC) and the Weiland Health Initiative, this class is open to all interested in sex and sexual health and required of students planning to become counselors at the SHPRC. Course addresses sexual...
WELLNESS192	Peer Support: Creating Spaces for Healing and Growth	Social support is an integral part of the human experience and a core pillar of human well-being. Explore ways you can be an effective source of support for your peers, using models, skills, and practices rooted in positive psychology, leadership stu...
WELLNESS198	Directed Reading and Individual Studies - Wellness	Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable wellness projects that enhance an aspect of wellness within the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the course instructo...
WELLNESS199	Selected Topics: Wellness	Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course titles and topics...
WELLNESS256	Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening	This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating 'See One, Do One, Teach One' with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful i...
WELLNESS81	Claiming Your Stanford Experience: Encountering People, Ideas, and Places	Engage your Stanford experience at a deeper, more authentic level through conversations with luminary Stanford faculty and experiential, creative immersions into signature Stanford places and spaces. Using a weekly fireside chat format with a cross-s...
WELLNESS99	Kinesthetic Delight: Movement and Meditation	The words meditation and mindfulness often conjure images of people sitting quietly in peaceful contemplation. However, as contemplatives and scholars from various fields have argued, though the brain resides in the cranium, the mind functions throug...

VARSITY - Baseball

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Basketball (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Basketball (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Cross Country (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Cross Country (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Track and Field (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Track and Field (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Fencing (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Fencing (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Field Hockey

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Football

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Golf (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Golf (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Gymnastics (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Gymnastics (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Lacrosse

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Rowing (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

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VARSITY - Rowing (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC30

VARSITY - Lightweight Rowing

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC31

VARSITY - Sailing (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC32

VARSITY - Sailing (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC33

VARSITY - Soccer (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC34

VARSITY - Soccer (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC35

VARSITY - Softball

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC36

VARSITY - Squash

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC37

VARSITY - Swimming (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC38

VARSITY - Swimming (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC39

VARSITY - Diving (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC40

VARSITY - Diving (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC41

VARSITY - Synchronized Swimming

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC42

VARSITY - Tennis (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC43

VARSITY - Tennis (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC44

VARSITY - Volleyball (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC45

VARSITY - Volleyball (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC46

VARSITY - Beach Volleyball

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC47

VARSITY - Water Polo (Men)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC48

VARSITY - Water Polo (Women)

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC49

VARSITY - Wrestling

Designed for the Varsity Athlete; conditioning; practice; game preparation; and weight training. Limit 2 credits per quarter with a maximum of 8 activity units may be applied towards graduation. Prerequisite: Must be a Varsity Athlete in the specific...

ATHLETIC61

CLUB - Martial Arts Experience

This course is offered to Martial Arts athletes who participate on credit approved Martial Arts teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a...

ATHLETIC63

CLUB - Climbing

his course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a week...

ATHLETIC64

CLUB - Equestrian

This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...

ATHLETIC65

CLUB - Rugby (Men)

This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...

ATHLETIC66

CLUB - Rugby (Women)

This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...

ATHLETIC67

CLUB - Squash (Men)

This course is offered to club sport athletes who participate on credit approved Club Sports teams. All teams and athletes on the team must complete 30 hours of participation during the quarter. To be eligible for credit, teams must practice 2x a wee...

CBIO101

Cancer Biology

Experimental approaches to understanding the origins, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Focus on key experiments and discoveries with emphasis on genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Topics include carcinogens, tumor virology, oncogenes,...

CBIO240

Molecular and Genetic Basis of Cancer

Required for first-year Cancer Biology graduate students. Focus is on fundamental concepts in the molecular biology of cancer, including oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and cellular signaling pathways. Emphasis will be given to seminal discoveries...

CBIO242

Cellular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer

Required for first-year Cancer Biology graduate students, and for first- and second-year medical students intending to complete the Cancer Biology Scholarly Concentration. Focus is on the cellular biology of cancer, including discussion of basic bio...

CBIO243

Principles of Cancer Systems Biology

Focus is on major principles of cancer systems biology research that integrates experimental and computational biology in order to systematically unravel the complexity of cancer. The opportunity to embark on cancer systems biology research has been...

CBIO244

Lecture Series in Cancer Systems Biology

Presents new concepts in the field of cancer systems biology, demonstrating the integration of novel experimental and computational approaches for addressing outstanding critical questions in cancer biology. Invited speakers share insights about stat...

CBIO245

Lecture Seminar Series in Cancer Biology Program

Invited speakers share insights about state-of-the-art trends. Presents new concepts in the field of cancer biology. Science talks presented by students.

CBIO246

Clinical Cancer Research Internship Program

As this is a limited enrollment course, graduate students interested in this course will contact must be affiliated with Cancer Biology Ph.D. Program and must contact the primary instructor Dr. Majeti and the course director Drs. Attardi and Sage by...

CBIO260

Teaching in Cancer Biology

Practical experience in teaching by serving as a teaching assistant in a cancer biology course. Unit values are allotted individually to reflect the level of teaching responsibility assigned to the student.

CBIO275

Tumor Immunology

Tumor Immunology focuses on the mechanisms by which tumors can escape from and subvert the immune system and conversely on the ability of innate and adaptive arms of the immune system to recognize and eliminate tumors. Topics include: tumor antigens...

CBIO280

Cancer Biology Journal Club

Required of and limited to first- and second-year graduate students in Cancer Biology. Recent papers in the literature presented by graduate students. When possible, discussion relates to and precedes cancer-related seminars at Stanford. Attendance a...

CBIO290

Curricular Practical Training

No Description Set

CBIO299

Directed Reading in Cancer Biology

Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

CBIO370

Medical Scholars Research

Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.

CBIO399

Graduate Research

Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Cancer Biology Ph.D. students must register as soon as they begin dissertation-related research work.

CBIO801

TGR Project

No Description Set

CBIO802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

CHPR113

Healthy/Sustainable Food Systems: Maximum Sustainability across Health, Economics, and Environment

Focus on problems with and systems-based solutions to food system issues. Four particular settings are addressed: University, worksite, hospital, and school food. Traditional vs. disruptive food system models compared and contrasted. The goal is to d...

CHPR130

Human Nutrition

(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 130. CHPR master's students must enroll in CHRP 130.) The study of food, and the nutrients and substances therein. Their action, interaction, and balance in relation to health and disease. Emphasis is on the bio...

CHPR166

Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context

(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 166. Med/Graduate students must enroll in CHRP 166.) The material in this course is an introduction to the field and the target audience is undergraduates. It may be of interest to graduate students unfamiliar w...

CHPR199

Undergraduate Research

Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

CHPR201

Introduction to Science of Healthy Living

This introduction to the science of healthy living (primarily U.S.) highlights preventable causes of mortality, i.e. modifiable risk factors, national lifestyle recommendations and behavioral change principles for reducing chronic disease risk. A lif...

CHPR202

R Fundamentals for Health Research

This introductory course is a practicum in which students will learn the basics of R, a free, open-source statistical analysis software program, and use the programming language to analyze health datasets by application of classical statistical metho...

CHPR205

Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine: Hands-on experience

How can one practice evidence-based medicine and make evidence-based decisions for clinical practice and policy making? Using pivotal papers published in the recent scientific literature addressing important clinical questions on diverse medical topi...

CHPR206

Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis

Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Ex...

CHPR207

Infectious Diseases: Community Health Impact and Prevention

This is an interactive course on Infectious Diseases with a combination lecture-workshop format and active students' participation. We will discuss diverse infectious diseases topics that have a significant community health impact and for which scree...

CHPR211

Introduction to Clinical Trials: Design, Conduct, and Analysis

This course covers basic concepts in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials. Various phases and designs of clinical trials will be discussed. Components of a trial protocol and the statistical analysis plan will be discussed. Data collec...

CHPR212

Methods for Health Care Delivery Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation

Preference given to postgraduate fellows and graduate students.Focus is on implementation science and evaluation of health care delivery innovations. Topics include implementation science theory, frameworks, and measurement principles; qualitative an...

CHPR220

Responsible Conduct of Research in the Community

This course will engage CHPR students pursuing community-based participatory research. Discussions will center around ethical and practical issues to prepare them for the CHPR program, including course planning, internship, thesis writing, and career...

CHPR226

Promoting Health Over the Life Course: the Science of Healthy Living

(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 126. Med/Graduate students must enroll in CHPR 226.) Disease prevention and health promotion topics pertinent at different stages of the life span emphasizing healthy lifestyle and reducing risk factors in both...

CHPR227

The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research

The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research course will focus on how the science of community engagement can be applied to diverse health-related research topics across the translational spectrum with the ultimate goal of high quality rese...

CHPR228

Theoretical Foundations and Design of Behavioral Intervention Trials

Focuses on the knowledge and skills, respect and thoughtful practice of designing health promotion interventions that are relevant, theoretically-informed, have broad impacts, and can endure. Provides an in-depth review of intervention approaches for...

CHPR230

Sexual Function and Diversity in Medical Disciplines

Focus is on development of personal and professional skills to interact with people across the diverse range of human sexuality, from childhood (pediatric) to older ages (geriatric), with consideration of gender identity, sexual orientation, sociocul...

CHPR232

Social and Structural Determinants of Health: Achieving Health Equity

This course examines the theoretical basis and societal context of the social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity. The focus of this course is on understanding the structural factors, including social, economic, and political mechanisms,...

CHPR233

Contemplative Science: The Power of the Pause for Resilience, Relationships, and Resolve

Advances in contemplative science reveal ways of caring for ourselves and others that promote health and well-being for individuals and communities. Study of diverse, evidence-based contemplative practices identifies why, how, and when specific pract...

CHPR234

Applying Contemplative Practices

Knowledge and skills for applying contemplative practices to promote individual and community health and well-being in a variety of settings (e.g., clinics, hospitals, non-profit and for-profit organizations, schools, government agencies, secular and...

CHPR236

Citizen Science Theory to Practice: Advancing Community-Driven Solutions for Health

Harnessing and activating the insights of community members and patients is essential to achieving health equity ¿from the bottom up.¿ Students will 1) learn and apply a novel datadriven, technology-enabled approach to improving community health thro...

CHPR237

Hunger & Food Insecurity: Challenges and Solution

This course will examine local, national, and global hunger issues and solutions. The focus of each class will acknowledge and examine the associations between health disparities, structural racism, systemic poverty, and the built environment that cr...

CHPR239

Contemplative Competence for Sustainability of Public and Planetary Health and Well-being

Through a contemplative approach, this course cultivates students' capacity to take skillful action to address climate change. Effective engagement with the daunting complexity inherent in the climate crisis requires calm contemplative competence. Th...

CHPR240

Prevention Research: the Science of Healthy Living

Features the research of faculty in the Stanford Prevention Research Center and focuses on key health issues over the life course (prenatal through childhood, young to middle-aged, older and elderly adults). Topics include chronic disease (global and...

CHPR241

Contemplative Movement and Mindful Physical Activity

Contemplative movement and mindful physical activity for individuals and communities is an emerging field with important implications for public health and well-being policies and programs, as well as clinical care for physical and emotional health....

CHPR242

The Science of Well-being: A Global Perspective

A scientific exploration of overall and multidimensional well-being. The course will provide an overview of the concept of well-being, its composition, assessment, and interpretation. This course is designed to advance understanding and knowledge of...

CHPR244

Contemplation by Design Summit: Translating contemplative science into timely community programming

Engage with contemplative science scholars, leaders, and teachers who apply contemplative practices to cultivate the democratic promise for equality, liberty, health, and well-being. This workshop immerses students in community-based engaged learning...

CHPR247

Methods in Community Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Development of pragmatic skills for design, implementation, and analysis of structured interviews, focus groups, survey questionnaires, and field observations. Topics include: principles of community-based participatory research, including importance...

CHPR250

Prevention Across Medical Disciplines: Evidence-based Guidelines

Coordinated seminar series presenting evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention guidelines by research and clinical faculty of multiple divisions of Stanford's Department of Medicine, including cardiovascular medicine, oncology, nephrolo...

CHPR270

Prevention Across Surgical and Other Medical Disciplines

This course is coordinated seminar series that presents evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention guidelines by clinical and translational research and population health science faculty of clinical departments other than Medicine (the fo...

CHPR271

Human Molecular Genetics

For genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows interested in the practice of medical genetics and genomics. Gene structure and function; the impact of mutation and polymorphism as...

CHPR274A

A Case Based Approach to Clinical Genetics

For genetic counseling students and medical genetics residents and fellows. Case-based scenarios and guest expert lectures. Students learn skills in case preparation, management, and presentation, as well as content around common genetic disorders.

CHPR274B

A Case Based Approach to Clinical Genetics

For genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, and fellows. Case-based scenarios and guest expert lectures. Students learn skills in case preparation, management, and presentation, as well as content arou...

CHPR279

Pediatric and Adult Genetic Counseling

Internet based course for genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, and fellows; genetic counseling students should take this course in conjunction with their initial general genetics rotation. Topics in...

CHPR287

CARDIOVASCULAR GENETICS

Online course for genetic counseling students, graduate students in genetics, medical students, residents, fellows, and nurses interested in inherited cardiovascular conditions. Genetic counseling students should take this course in conjunction with...

CHPR288

Cancer in Asian Americans: Epidemiology and Prevention

This course will provide an overview of cancer common or have higher risk (relative to other population) in Asian American populations. This course is designed to advance the understanding and knowledge of cancer etiology and prevention in Asian Amer...

CHPR290

Curricular Practical Training and Internship

CHPR masters students enroll for a letter grade in your mentor's section. Before the end of the second week of the quarter, enrolled students must submit a description of the expected learning outcomes and deliverables for each unit to the CHPR offic...

CHPR299

Directed Reading

Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Before the end of the second week of the quarter, enrolled students must submit a description of the expected learning outcomes and deliverables for each unit to the CHPR office. One unit= three hours of work per...

CHPR399

Community Health and Prevention Research Master's Thesis Writing

Thesis writing for Community Health and Prevention Research Program. Students enroll in thesis advisor's section. Non-medical students enroll for a letter grade. Before the end of the second week of the quarter, enrolled students must submit a descri...

CHPR801

TGR Project

No Description Set

FAMMED199

Undergraduate Directed Reading and Research in Family and Community Medicine

Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FAMMED201

Innovations in Patient and Family Centered Primary Care

Students work with their faculty mentor on individual or team-based projects and studies that are broadly centered around the aim of Patient and Family Centered Primary Care. Students are paired with clinical faculty based on their area of interest a...

FAMMED210

The Healer's Art

Stanford Healer's Art is a unique five-session course that provides a foundation for designing and living one's life with meaning and well-being as a physician and healer. The Healer's Art focuses on essential foundations of our humanity not explored...

FAMMED213

Medical Tai Chi

Tai chi is a recognized form of integrative and complementary medicine. This class promotes health and well-being by teaching how to decrease stress, depression, and anxiety through the practice of moving meditation. The course also includes the stud...

FAMMED215

Primary Care Defined: Perspectives and Procedures

Designed to give pre-clerkship students a broad overview of the diverse specialties and career trajectories available within the rewarding field of primary care. Students experience hands-on immersion in common office-based procedures, including absc...

FAMMED245

Women and Health Lecture Series

Lecture series. Topics of interest to anyone concerned about women's health issues. A journey from sex and gender through health screening, health disparity, family planning, heart health, mental health, and even beyond women's health in considering...

FAMMED252

Medicine & Horsemanship: An Outdoor, Equine Assisted Learning Course for Doctor-Patient Relationship

Medicine and Horsemanship is a unique outdoor experience working with horses to develop interpersonal skills, leadership qualities, and self-care techniques. A challenge throughout a clinical career is to conduct relationships with patients and colle...

FAMMED299

Directed Reading in Family and Community Medicine

Students organize an individualized study program in family and community medicine. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FAMMED301A

Family Medicine Core Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the management of diseases commonly encountered in the primary care setting. Emphasis is placed on patient-centered, efficient, equitable, cost-effective medical care of...

FAMMED310A

Continuity of Care Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: In the Continuity of Care Clerkship, students work with a preceptor in any field of medicine, including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and other sub-specialti...

FAMMED338E

Elective Clerkship in Family Medicine

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The objective of this 3 week clerkship is to provide clinical experience in the following areas: management of normal adult and pediatric patients; evaluation and treatment of co...

FAMMED344E

Family Medicine Elective Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Offers the student a flexible learning experience as part of a team of family physicians working closely with Stanford's Family Medicine Residency Program at O'Connor Hospital & In...

FAMMED345E

Family Practice Office Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Family medicine outpatient clinical experience, located in urban, suburban, or rural areas. The preceptor may be in private practice or in a health care center. Special opport...

FAMMED364E

Subinternship in Family Medicine

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Offers the student ready for an advanced experience similar to an internship a learning experience with an assigned patient load as part of a team of family physicians and worki...

FAMMED370

Medical Scholars Research

Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.

FAMMED398A

Clinical Elective in Family Medicine

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides an opportunity for a student in the clinical years to have a clinical experience in one of the fields of Family Medicine, of a quality and duration to be decided upon by...

FAMMED399

Graduate Research

Students interested in conducting research in a specific area of family and community medicine undertake investigations sponsored by the faculty instructor. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

LEAD101

Leading at Stanford & Beyond: Skills for Changemaking & Community Building

Enhance your skills in leading and creating positive social change within the Stanford community and beyond. Deepen self-knowledge and self-awareness while building capabilities for leading in teams and communities. Rooted in the Social Change Model,...

LEAD103

Living on Purpose

Explore the art and science of purpose-finding as it relates to living a more flourishing life at Stanford and beyond. Investigate the contemplative, psychological, social, and communal factors that deepen meaning-making, support authenticity, and en...

LEAD104

Tools for Meaningful Communities

How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? W...

LEAD105

Art of Facilitation

This experiential education style course allows participants to develop and test their group facilitation skills. Students will explore delivering group initiatives surrounding popular leadership topics and learn how to help their group take away val...

LEAD106

Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter

In this experiential class, students will engage in meaningful, spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another. This class introduces students to models of spiritual wellness from different religious traditions, fosters dialogue across d...

LEAD106B

Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter: Creating Community

Engage in meaningful spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another, fostering a conversation across differences. Explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in daily life through experiential learning activities. Expand your religious l...

LEAD107

Living Leadership: Ecological and Contemplative Foundations

Given today's climate crisis and the associated stressors on human existence, this class engages the question: What kind of leadership is needed to guide humanity toward a sustainable, just and thriving future? Using the lens of "going inward to enga...

LEAD111

Luminaries and Changemakers: Life Lessons & Conversations with Extraordinary Leaders

Encounter luminaries and changemakers in the fields of leadership, business, social innovation, and change-making ranging from noted entrepreneurs and CEOs to social change agents, artists, and activists who are committed to enhancing individual and...

LEAD121

Peer Support: Creating Spaces for Healing and Growth

Social support is an integral part of the human experience and a core pillar of human well-being. Explore ways you can be an effective source of support for your peers, using models, skills, and practices rooted in positive psychology, leadership stu...

LEAD122

Leading with Integrity: ASSU Leadership Foundations

Strengthen your leadership capacities through deepened self-awareness drawing on values-driven leadership and ethical decision-making practices in this experiential leadership development course. This course, for ASSU student leaders, emphasizes your...

LEAD126

Outdoor Leadership Practicum

Outdoor education and leadership theory integration through intensive field-based experiences. During these field-based experiences, students will engage with critical self-assessment process to better understand their own levels of competence leadi...

LEAD150

Leading for Social Justice: The Practice and Power of Dialogue

This course uses a social justice framework to explore issues of identity, community, power and privilege with respect to diverse populations. We will explore historical and contemporary oppressions based on race, sex, gender identity, class, and oth...

LEAD198

Directed Reading and Individual Studies - Leadership

Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable projects or initiatives that make positive impact within and/or beyond the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the cours...

LEAD199

Selected Topics: Leadership Studies

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course titles, please re...

LEAD95

Ensemble Leadership

This experiential course allows students to grow as leaders through immersion in leadership positions in the Stanford Band. Study and implement frameworks and tools that enhance leadership and team performance. Topics covered include traditional lead...

LIFE101

Tools for a Meaningful Life

Explores the foundational skills for a meaningful life. Features lectures and experiential practice workshops from instructors within and beyond the university. Draws on research and practices from fields related to psychology, literature, critical s...

LIFE102

Body Mapping: Embracing the Embodied Experiences of Your Life

Utilize an anthropological lens to combine traditional analytic research with experiential contemplative practice to strengthen awareness of the body and embodied experiences. Explore cultural norms around the body as influenced by racial stereotypes...

LIFE102A

Body Mapping: Tracing the Embodied Experiences of Your Life

Body Maps in various forms have been used for thousands of years by people searching for a better understanding of their bodies and their place in the world. This weekend intensive combines self-reflection, artistic expression, and an anthropological...

LIFE104

Tools for Meaningful Communities

How can we live together and honor both difference and belonging? How do we create community amidst divisiveness and the existential threats of climate change, oppression of marginalized peoples, and our disconnection from ourselves and each other? W...

LIFE105

Meeting the Moment: Inner Resources for Hard Times

In the face of social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are experiencing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. Challenging times ask us, in a voice louder...

LIFE120

Yoga Psychology for Resilience and Creativity

In this integrative class, learn about the practice, psychology, and philosophy of yoga as a conceptual model for well-being. Supported by findings in modern neuroscience and psychological research, yoga is an ancient, holistic modality that integrat...

LIFE124

Counterstory in Literature and Education

Counterstory is a method developed in critical legal studies that emerges out of the broad "narrative turn" in the humanities and social science. This course explores the value of this turn, especially for marginalized communities, and the use of cou...

LIFE125

The Stillness of the Dunes

An advanced writing course in nonfiction craft, drawing, and contemplative practice. a significant portion of each class meeting will focus on the development and sharpening of writing craft, especially of the essay, in a hybrid form both scholarly a...

LIFE144

Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, Gender, Sexuality, and Class

Exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between us and them, based on a belief that understanding the self leads to understanding others. How personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the individual, how self healing can lead to c...

LIFE150G

Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality

In this theory and practice-based course, students will examine performances by and scholarly texts about artists who critically and mindfully engage race, gender, and sexuality. Students will cultivate their skills as artist-scholars through written...

LIFE151

Feminist Life-Writing

This course explores life-writing as a form of feminist praxis. Feminist life-writing is an art form grounded in truth-telling, activism, and self-making that emerges from the long tradition of women writing private lives. Beginning with the politici...

LIFE161P

Dance and the Politics of Movement

This course examines how the dancing body has been viewed, exhibited, analyzed, and interpreted from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will discuss how ideologies about race, gender, and sexual orientation are mapped onto the body, as we...

LIFE170

Laughter & Play for Wellbeing

Learn about and practice laughter yoga, combined with theater exercises. Laughter yoga (distinct from traditional movement-based yoga) is a modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing. Explore the growing field of research on lau...

LIFE174S

When Half is Whole: Developing Synergistic Identities and Mestiza Consciousness

This is an exploration of the ways in which individuals construct whole selves in societies that fragment, label, and bind us in categories and boxes. We examine identities that overcome the destructive dichotomies of us and them, crossing borders of...

LIFE180

Art, Meditation, and Creation

Art and meditation invite us to be fully present in our minds and bodies. This class will give you tools to integrate mind and body as you explore artworks on display at the university's museums and throughout campus. In your engagement with activity...

LIFE185Q

Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility

We practice mindfulness as a way of enhancing well-being, interacting compassionately with others, and engaging in socially responsible actions as global citizens. Contemplation is integrated with social justice through embodied practice, experientia...

LIFE198

Directed Reading and Individual Studies - LifeWorks

Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable projects or initiatives that make positive impact within and/or beyond the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the cours...

LIFE199

Selected Topics: LifeWorks

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty/instructor(s) and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course tit...

LIFE53Q

Storytelling in Medicine

Stories are at the core of medical practice, but the skills developed are applicable across disciplines, including technology and business. Storytelling in Medicine is a new sophomore seminar designed to teach skills in multiple modalities of storyte...

LIFE60N

The Psychology of Stoked

Examines the biological, psychological and social aspects of what it means to live a positive, life-affirming existence. Drawing from a wide range of sources, from psychiatry and psychology, to spirituality and philosophy, seminar informs on the late...

LIFE60N

The Psychology of Stoked

Examines the biological, psychological and social aspects of what it means to live a positive, life-affirming existence. Drawing from a wide range of sources, from psychiatry and psychology, to spirituality and philosophy, seminar informs on the late...

LIFE81

Claiming Your Stanford Experience: Encountering People, Ideas, and Places

Engage your Stanford experience at a deeper, more authentic level through conversations with luminary Stanford faculty and experiential, creative immersions into signature Stanford places and spaces. Using a weekly fireside chat format with a cross-s...

LIFE91CL

Self & Science

"Self & Science" mines the intersection of memoir and science writing. In this advanced experimental writing course, students will read a selection of essays by writers including Lewis Thomas, Oliver Sacks, Annie Dillard, and Mark Doty, which illustr...

LIFE99

Kinesthetic Delight: Movement and Meditation

The words meditation and mindfulness often conjure images of people sitting quietly in peaceful contemplation. However, as contemplatives and scholars from various fields have argued, though the brain resides in the cranium, the mind functions throug...

MED103

Human and Planetary Health

Two of the biggest challenges humanity has to face - promoting human health and halting environmental degradation - are strongly linked. The emerging field of Planetary Health recognizes these inter-linkages and promotes creative, interdisciplinary...

MED114

Frontier Technology: Understanding and Preparing for Technology in the Next Economy

The next wave of technological innovation and globalization will affect our countries, our societies, and ourselves. This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to frontier technology, the intersection where radical forward thinking and re...

MED121

Translational Research and Applied Medicine

(Same as MED 121; undergraduate students enroll in MED 121) Open to graduate students and medical students, this course enables students to learn basic principles in the design, performance and analysis of translational medical research studies. The...

MED124

Global Child Health

(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 124C. Med/Graduate students must enroll in MED 124 or PEDS 124.) This course introduces students to key challenges to the health and well being of children worldwide. We explicitly focus on child and public heal...

MED131

Exploring Israel's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for Sustaining Human & Planetary Health

Israel's innovation ecosystem is one of the most admired in the world. Israel is a leader in health, environmental, and ecological innovation, and despite its small size, Israel is home to a disproportionate number of successful start-ups. Israel com...

MED142

Modern Ethical Challenges in Neuroscience and Organ Transplantation

Today we face unprecedented innovations in neuroscience and medicine. While these advances offer new hope, they also challenge medical, legal, and ethical paradigms. We will explore the ethical constructs surrounding topics including brain death, bra...

MED147

Methods in Community Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Development of pragmatic skills for design, implementation, and analysis of structured interviews, focus groups, survey questionnaires, and field observations. Topics include: principles of community-based participatory research, including importance...

MED155

You Can Make a Difference in Primary Care

This lunchtime seminar course is designed to give pre-clerkship students an overview of the amazing and rewarding field of primary care medicine. You'll meet nine primary care clinicians, each with a different area of interest and practice. You will...

MED157

Foundations for Community Health Engagement

Open to undergraduate, graduate, and MD students. Examination and exploration of community health principles and their application at the local level. Designed to prepare students to make substantive contributions in a variety of community health set...

MED159

Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border

Required for students participating in the Community Health in Oaxaca summer program. Introduction to the health literacy and health-seeking behaviors of Oaxacan and other Mexican migrants; the health challenges these groups face. Through discussion...

MED160

Physician Shadowing: Stanford Immersion in Medicine Series (SIMS)

Undergraduates are paired with a physician mentor at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, or the Veteran's Administration Hospital. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Application and acceptance to the SIMS progra...

MED175B

Biodesign Fundamentals

MED 175B/275B is an introduction to the Biodesign process for health technology innovation. This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology. Students will work on...

MED180

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Ventures

The face of healthcare is changing - innovative technologies, based on recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), are radically altering how care is delivered. Startups are offering entirely new ways to diagnose, manage, treat, and operate. How...

MED181

Preparation for Early Clinical Experience at the Cardinal Free Clinics

Training course for new undergraduate volunteers at the Cardinal Free Clinics (CFCs). Topics include introduction to methods for providing culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations, clinic stru...

MED182

Early Clinical Experience at the Cardinal Free Clinics

The Cardinal Free Clinics, consisting of Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic, provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations in the Bay Area. Students volunteer in various clinic roles to offer se...

MED18SI

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Ventures

The face of healthcare is changing - innovative technologies, based on recent advances in artificial intelligence, are radically altering how care is delivered. Startups are offering entirely new ways to diagnose, manage, treat, and operate. Few ever...

MED194

Global Health: Through an Equity Lens

In this course, current topics of global health will be discussed while focusing on an equity lens. Topics include decolonizing global health, climate and vulnerable populations, the poverty trap, inequities in reproductive rights, inequities for chi...

MED199

Undergraduate Research

Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

MED200

Primary Care Presentations

This course is a lecture series offered during the winter quarter. The aim of this seminar is to allow medical students to experience the mindset of primary care physicians in real time. Classes feature presentations of patient cases submitted by Sta...

MED201

Internal Medicine: Body as Text

Body as Text refers to the idea that every patient's body tells a story. The narrative includes the past and present of a person's social and medical condition; it is a demonstration of the phenotype. The art of reading the body as text was at its pe...

MED205

Launching a Healthcare Venture: The Nuts and Bolts of Founding a Start Up

This course prepares medical and graduate students to start their own healthcare venture. In the Spring quarter, students will work through the steps that can take them from ideation all the way through what to expect when fundraising, including: val...

MED206

Meta-research: Appraising Research Findings, Bias, and Meta-analysis

Open to graduate, medical, and undergraduate students. Appraisal of the quality and credibility of research findings; evaluation of sources of bias. Meta-analysis as a quantitative (statistical) method for combining results of independent studies. Ex...

MED208

Health Systems Science: Measuring What Matters For Change

Physicians can and should be leaders in changing our health care systems for the better. To make our institutions more equitable, more efficient, and serve patients with the best of medical knowledge, we must use the same effective scientific methods...

MED210

Principles and Practice of Healthcare Quality Improvement

This course will introduce students to foundational concepts in healthcare quality improvement, and provide tools for translating these principles into practice. Topics include: current state, A3, SMART goals, root-cause analysis, metrics and measure...

MED211

Current Topics in Applied Medicine

Introduction to vaccines- discuss the basics of vaccines, including vaccines of infectious diseases vs. cancer vaccines and effective methods of vaccine delivery to achieve long-term memory immune response. Gene therapy- gene therapy for single gene...

MED212

Methods for Health Care Delivery Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation

Preference given to postgraduate fellows and graduate students.Focus is on implementation science and evaluation of health care delivery innovations. Topics include implementation science theory, frameworks, and measurement principles; qualitative an...

MED212A

MTRAM A: Translational Research Methods and Technologies: Cell Based Methods

In this quarter, students will learn the fundamentals of clinical sample processing, flow cytometry, CYTOF, Luminex, and nanoimmunoassays (NIA). Topics covered include applications, technical considerations, instrument set-up and QC, computational me...

MED212B

TR Technologies B - (Translational Proteomics)

In this quarter (Winter), students will learn the fundamentals of translational proteomics, antibody-drug conjugate analysis, peptide mapping, mass spectrometry operations and data analysis and data processing for mass spec experiments., how their ap...

MED212C

MTRAM Translational Technologies (TR): Translational genomics

This course is part of a three-quarter series (A, B, C) and complements courses offered as part of a master's in Translational Research and Applied Medicine (M-TRAM). (A: Fall: Biomarker Discovery; B: Winter: Translational Proteomics, C: Spring: Tran...

MED213

The Digital Future of Health Care

Digital health tools, technologies, and services are poised to fundamentally reshape how patients and physicians interact. COVID-19 has only accelerated this transformation. In this weekly seminar series led by clinicians, digital health investors, a...

MED214

Frontier Technology: Understanding and Preparing for Technology in the Next Economy

The next wave of technological innovation and globalization will affect our countries, our societies, and ourselves. This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to frontier technology, the intersection where radical forward thinking and re...

MED215

Causal Inference for Environment-Health Studies: A Survey of Recent Literature

Climate Change is perhaps the defining health challenge of our generation. Yet, despite widespread awareness and prominence, clime change's health impacts are notoriously hard to estimate. This is partly because, after all, we only have one planet, a...

MED215A

Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial I

Seminar series is the core tutorial for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all MS Health Policy students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems and reform and disparities...

MED215B

Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial II

Second in a three-quarter seminar series, the core tutorial is for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all MS Health Policy students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems...

MED215C

Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial III

The third in a three-quarter seminar series, this course is intended for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all Health Policy MS students. The course is structured as a student-led seminar, with participation by the Instructor and other facult...

MED216

Generative AI and Medicine

This seminar course will explore the applications of Generative AI Technologies (ChatGPT, DALL-E, and many others) to medicine and healthcare. Course meetings will include a mix of outstanding speakers from health, business and technology as well di...

MED217

Inpatient Medicine Shadowing Rotation

The objective of this rotation is to provide second year medical students the opportunity to experience the application of their medical education to clinical scenarios in the hospital. Students will have a one-day weekend shadowing opportunity (eith...

MED218

Principles of Business Strategy

Organizations need frameworks to plan for growth, respond to challenges and/or changes in the market, or tackle gaps in performance. This course explores how to assess business opportunities in dynamic, competitive environments to develop the insight...

MED219

Housing Equity & Intro to Community-led Case Management

This course will provide students with foundational skills in basic on-site case management, with a particular focus on benefits navigation. Through a combination of classroom instruction and service learning, students will develop an understanding o...

MED220

Bioethical Challenges of New Technology

How might we apply ideas from ethical theory to contemporary issues and debates in biotechnology? This course will provide critical encounters with some of the central topics in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on new technologies. Controvers...

MED221

Translational Research and Applied Medicine

(Same as MED 121; undergraduate students enroll in MED 121) Open to graduate students and medical students, this course enables students to learn basic principles in the design, performance and analysis of translational medical research studies. The...

MED222

You Can Make a Difference in Primary Care

This lunchtime seminar course is designed to give pre-clerkship students an overview of the amazing and rewarding field of primary care medicine. You'll meet nine primary care clinicians, each with a different area of interest and practice. You will...

MED223

Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences Seminar

Weekly seminar series featuring cardiovascular research by faculty. This course is intended for medical students, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students. On Tuesdays, students attend Frontiers in Cardiovascualr Science. On Thursdays...

MED224

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Global & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in s...

MED225

Drug Development: From a Concept to the Clinic

This course is designed for medical students, trainees, basic scientists, clinicians and clinician-scientists at Stanford to provide an educational and practical perspective on the essential issues in drug development. Using a blend of seminars and d...

MED226

Practical Approaches to Global Health Research

(Formerly IPS 290 and HRP 237) How do you come up with an idea for a useful research project in a low resource setting? How do you develop a research question, prepare a concept note, and get your project funded? How do you manage personnel in the fi...

MED227

Drug Development: Key Issues in Regulation, Benefit vs. Risk, and Commercialization

This course is intended for medical students, graduate students, trainees, basic scientists, clinicians, and clinician scientists at Stanford to provide an educational and practical perspective of drug development: its incredible potential as well it...

MED228

Physicians and Social Responsibility

Social and political context of the roles of physicians and health professionals in social change; policy, advocacy, and shaping public attitudes. How physicians have influenced governmental policy on nuclear arms proliferation; environmental health...

MED229

Longevity

Interdisciplinary. Challenges to and solutions for the young from increased human life expectancy: health care, financial markets, families, work, and politics. Guest lectures from engineers, economists, geneticists, and physiologists.

MED230

Marketing Science and Patient Engagement

This course introduces the principles, processes, and tools necessary to analyze markets, including customers, competitors, and companies (the 3 Cs), and to design optimal marketing programs via strategies for pricing, promotion, place, and product (...

MED231

Physicians and firearms

Firearms ownership is a cultural phenomenon unique to the United States. In the US, there are 120 guns per 100 residents with over 40% of individuals, 34% of children, living in households with guns. Unfortunately, in the US, firearms are one of the...

MED232

Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings

Recent advances in health technologies - incorporating innovations like robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and smart sensors - have raised expectations of a dramatic impact on health outcomes across the world. However, bringing innov...

MED233

Global Health: Beyond Diseases and International Organizations

Provides multidisciplinary trainees insight into over-arching themes of global health. Topics include systemic issues affecting healthcare progress globally, ethical and thoughtful approaches to solving these issues, as well as economics, water sanit...

MED234

Meaning in Medicine: Staying Connected to What Matters Most

Burnout- defined as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and apathy toward one's work - is endemic in medicine. There is evidence that a significant cause of burnout is a loss of connection to deeper values. This course will help students identif...

MED235

Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems

The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid t...

MED236

Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health

Addressing societal health and the systemic (Social, Structural, Environmental) drivers of health is a new frontier of entrepreneurship to improve global and public health at scale. In this hybrid seminar-based and experiential course, you will learn...

MED237

Health Law: Improving Public Health

(Same as Law 3009) Examines how the law can be used to improve the public's health. Major themes explored include: what authority does the government have to regulate in the interest of public health? How are individual rights balanced against this a...

MED238

Leading and Managing Health Care Organizations: Innovation and Collaboration in High Stakes Settings

Leading and managing in complex, high stakes settings, like health care, where lives and livelihoods are on the line, presents distinctive challenges and constraints. This course challenges you to apply seminal and contemporary theories in organizati...

MED240

Sex and Gender in Human Physiology and Disease

(HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 140. PhD minor in FGSS must enroll in FEMGEN 241. Med students must enroll in MED 240.) Chromosomal, hormonal and environmental influences that lead to male and female and intersex reproductive anatomy and physi...

MED241

Clinical Skills for Patient Care in Free Clinics

Enrollment in this course is by application only for advanced volunteers at the Cardinal Free Clinics. Focus is on preparing students to gain early clinical experience by teaching basic skills such as taking patient histories, working with interprete...

MED242

Human Rights and Health

Weekly lectures on how human rights violations affect health. Topics include: regional conflict and health, the health status of refugees and internally displaced persons; child labor; trafficking in women and children; HIV/AIDS; torture; poverty, th...

MED243

Citizen Science Theory to Practice: Advancing Community-Driven Solutions for Health

Harnessing and activating the insights of community members and patients is essential to achieving health equity ¿from the bottom up.¿ Students will 1) learn and apply a novel datadriven, technology-enabled approach to improving community health thro...

MED245

Leadership in Medicine: Developing your Moral Identity

Students will view videos of well-known leaders being interviewed or watch a live interview of the chief communications officer of Stanford School of Medicine each week. All this will be conducted through zoom conferencing for students to connect fro...

MED246

Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences

Traditional climate change courses introduce students to a wide array of scientifically and emotionally challenging subjects without acknowledging the significant distress that climate learners often experience from studiously bearing witness to ecol...

MED246

The Medical Interview for Spanish Speakers

Student led forum for practicing and learning medical Spanish related specifically to the medical interview. Prepares clinical students to interact more effectively with Spanish speaking patients in clinics. Classes are topical; each class includes...

MED247

Methods in Community Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Development of pragmatic skills for design, implementation, and analysis of structured interviews, focus groups, survey questionnaires, and field observations. Topics include: principles of community-based participatory research, including importance...

MED248

Student Rounds

Teams of preclinical students meet weekly with a clinical student to hear the history and physical of a recent case the clinical student encountered on the wards. Following the presentation, the preclinical students work together under the guidance o...

MED249

Topics in Health Economics I

Course will cover various topics in health economics, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Topics will include public financing and public policy in health care and health insurance; demand and supply of health insurance and healthcare; physi...

MED250

Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine: Hands-on experience

How can one practice evidence-based medicine and make evidence-based decisions for clinical practice and policy making? Using pivotal papers published in the recent scientific literature addressing important clinical questions on diverse medical topi...

MED251

The A to Z of Translational Medicine

This multidisciplinary course is designed to train students in applying translational research approaches to solve fundamental problems in healthcare delivery. The class is focused on addressing real-world problems in a creative, interdisciplinary te...

MED252

Outcomes Analysis

This course introduces and develops methods for conducting empirical research that address clinical and policy questions that are not suitable for randomized trials. Conceptual and applied models of causal inference guide the design of empirical res...

MED253

Building for Digital Health

This project-based course will provide a comprehensive overview of key requirements in the design and full-stack implementation of a digital health research application. Several pre-vetted and approved projects from the Stanford School of Medicine wi...

MED255

The Responsible Conduct of Research

Forum. How to identify and approach ethical dilemmas that commonly arise in biomedical research. Issues in the practice of research such as in publication and interpretation of data, and issues raised by academic/industry ties. Contemporary debates a...

MED256

Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening

This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating 'See One, Do One, Teach One' with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful i...

MED257

Yoga: Tools for Transformation

Yoga is a technology to bring the body and mind to the peak of their capabilities, allowing one to live life to the fullest. This course is a series of six interactive webinars that provide you with simple but powerful tools to enhance your health an...

MED258

Stanford Technology Access Resource Team: A Primary Care Effort to Bridge the Telehealth Divide

Video visits have been invaluable during the COVID pandemic for patients and providers and will continue to serve as a vital connection between patients and their care team beyond COVID-19. However, many patients cannot access this resource due to ch...

MED259

Current Topics in Applied Medicine

Introduction to vaccines- discuss the basics of vaccines, including vaccines of infectious diseases vs. cancer vaccines and effective methods of vaccine delivery to achieve long-term memory immune response. Gene therapy- gene therapy for single gene...

MED260

Biodesign: Need in Finding Healthcare

Open to School of Medicine-affiliated graduate students (MD and MSPA). NO prior engineering background necessary. Introduction to the Biodesign innovation process for patient-centered medical technology development, centered on the role of clinicians...

MED261

Leadership in Health Equity and Community Engagement: Creating New Educational Opportunities

Creating Capacity in Community Engagement Medical Education is a new course for first/second-year medical students with an interest in both community health and medical education. In a small group, faculty-facilitated setting, students will design an...

MED262

Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries

Application of economic paradigms and empirical methods to health improvement in lower-income countries. Emphasis is on unifying analytic frameworks and evaluation of empirical evidence. How economic views differ from public health, medicine, and epi...

MED263

Advanced Decision Science Methods and Modeling in Health

Advanced methods currently used in published model-based cost-effectiveness analyses in medicine and public health, both theory and technical applications. Topics include: Markov and microsimulation models, model calibration and evaluation, and proba...

MED265

Advanced Topics in the Economics of Health and Medical Care

Emphasis is on research studies in health economics. Seminar style course focuses on health economics. Complimentary with HRP 256. Students will be expected to read and present papers to the group and discuss concepts with faculty. Restricted to seco...

MED266

Literacy: A Fundamental Human Right Toward Health and Advocacy

This is a Community Engaged learning seminar style course that meets once a week for an hour and a half. We will have seminar discussions and readings related to local health literacy issues, and the systemic factors affecting health literacy throug...

MED267

Professional Ethics Across Sectors

Ethics arise in many aspects of professional life and work environments, whether in corporations, government, the academy, or non-profit organizations. Leaders face increasing challenge internally and externally as well. Age-old challenges from racis...

MED268

Tackling Asian-American Health Challenges

Why do certain diseases like hepatitis B affect Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) disproportionately? How can public policy advance health equity among ethnic groups? Weekly lectures examine health challenges endemic to the API community, recognizing un...

MED269

Health Equity Advancement and Leadership Through Community Engagement (HEAL-CE)

Health Equity Advancement and Leadership Through Community Engagement (HEAL-CE) is a new course for first and second-year medical students with an interest in better understanding how to engage with communities as physicians to advance a health equit...

MED269B

Health Equity and Social Justice - SC Core Skills Course

Offered in the Summer of 2023 and each Spring/Summer quarter thereafter. This course focuses on building core skills necessary to effectively engage in social justice & health equity change work. During this 10-week course, students will acquire tool...

MED270

Learning & Teaching of Science

This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergrad...

MED271

Global Biodesign: Medical Technology in an International Context

This course (BIOE371, MED271) exposes students to the challenges and opportunities of developing and implementing innovative health technologies to help patients around the world. Non-communicable diseases, such as metabolic and chronic respiratory d...

MED272

Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a unique system for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as for the cultivation of life-long health and well-being. This course introduces basic TCM theories, practices, and treatment methods including...

MED272A

Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation

In this two-quarter course series ( BIOE 374A/B, MED 272A/B, ME 368A/B, OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into pat...

MED272B

Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation

In this two-quarter course series ( BIOE 374A/B, MED 272A/B, ME 368A/B, OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their implementation into pat...

MED273

Biodesign for Digital Health

Health care is facing significant cross-industry challenges and opportunities created by a number of factors, including the increasing need for improved access to affordable, high-quality care; growing demand from consumers for greater control of the...

MED274

Introduction to Cardiovascular Medicine

Weekly lunch seminar series featuring residents, fellows, and faculty of the Department of Medicine's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. This course aims to introduce preclinical medical and physician assistant students to the diverse field of card...

MED275B

Biodesign Fundamentals

MED 175B/275B is an introduction to the Biodesign process for health technology innovation. This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology. Students will work on...

MED275B

Biodesign Fundamentals

MED 175B/275B is an introduction to the Biodesign process for health technology innovation. This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology. Students will work on...

MED276

Caring for Individuals with Disabilities

Over 61 million individuals in the US have a disability; however, this group of patients is often neglected in medical education. This interactive seminar course has been designed to better prepare students to care for patients with disabilities. Thr...

MED277

AI-Assisted Care

AI has been advancing quickly, with its impact everywhere. In healthcare, innovation in AI could help transforming of our healthcare system. This course offers a diverse set of research projects focusing on cutting edge computer vision and machine le...

MED278

Stanford Health Consulting Group- Leadership

This course is application-based and will be composed of students who have taken Stanford Health Consulting Group - Core and who wish to take on leadership roles in organizing and managing the high-impact health care projects for the class, which add...

MED279

Stanford Health Consulting Group - Core

This course provides the opportunity to analyze and solve major strategic and operational challenges in health care delivery and innovation through interdisciplinary team projects. Teams will receive direct mentorship from Stanford Medicine faculty,...

MED282

Early Clinical Experience at the Cardinal Free Clinics

The Cardinal Free Clinics, consisting of Arbor and Pacific Free Clinic, provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for underserved patient populations in the Bay Area. Students volunteer in various clinic roles to offer se...

MED285

Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab

Are you interested in innovative ideas and strategies for addressing urgent challenges in human and planetary health and creating sustainable societies? This 7 session lecture series features a selection of noteworthy leaders, innovators, and experts...

MED286

Health Information Technology and Strategy

Health Information technology was intended to help reduce and cost and improve the quality of health care services. TO date, this is little evidence that this goal has been achieved. This course is designed to explore economic frameworks that can hel...

MED288

Perspectives on Cancer

Cancer consumes the lives of those associated with it: patients and their loved ones, their medical staff, and often the larger community. This course will address the broad impact of cancer from multiple fronts (medical, social, mental, etc.) by pro...

MED289

Introduction to Bioengineering Research

Preference to medical and bioengineering graduate students with first preference given to Bioengineering Scholarly Concentration medical students. Bioengineering is an interdisciplinary field that leverages the disciplines of biology, medicine, and e...

MED290

Independent Study with Presence and the Program in Bedside Medicine

Students work with their faculty mentor on projects and studies that are broadly centered around the vision and mission of Presence: The Art and Science of Human Connection and the Program in Bedside Medicine. Please see our websites for updated proj...

MED291

Diagnostic Medicine on Television: Truths vs. Theatrics

School of Medicine faculty in charge of Stanford's Consultative Medicine Clinic, a real-life medical mystery clinic, will review cases from the popular TV show House and critique the show's depiction of complex disease diagnosis and treatment. We tre...

MED294

Global Health: Through an Equity Lens

In this course, current topics of global health will be discussed while focusing on an equity lens. Topics include decolonizing global health, climate and vulnerable populations, the poverty trap, inequities in reproductive rights, inequities for chi...

MED295

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

(For clinical MD students only) Prepares students to manage the victim of a cardiac arrest. Knowledge and skills necessary for resuscitation of critically ill patients. Clinical scenarios and small group discussions address cardiovascular pharmacolog...

MED296

Being Mortal: Medicine, Mortality and Caring for Older Adults

Mortality is the inevitable, final outcome of human health. Though medical education focuses on treating illness and prolonging life, healthcare professionals in practice must face the fact that patients lives cannot always be saved. This course will...

MED297

Diabetes 101 for Healthcare Providers

Diabetes is an extremely high-prevalence disease, that you will likely encounter on a consistent basis regardless of your medical specialty, so learning about the practical aspects of treatment is extremely useful. This course is designed to teach th...

MED299

Directed Reading in Medicine

Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

MED299M

TRIP: Translational Research Independent Project required of all MTRAM students

TRIP will be a translational research capstone project that will require approximately 5 hours per week 2nd through 4th quarter for a total of about 150 hours and enable each student to test a hypothesis, develop an experimental plan, interpret resul...

MED300A

Internal Medicine Core Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the natural history, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of medical illness. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the understanding, skills, and attitudes desirable in a...

MED302A

Infectious Diseases Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The infectious diseases clerkship features an active inpatient service at Stanford Hospital, which averages two to four new consults per day. As a consulting specialty service with...

MED302B

Infectious Diseases Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The infectious diseases clerkship features an active inpatient service at the Palo Alto VA, which averages one to three new consults per day. As a consulting specialty service with...

MED302C

Infectious Diseases Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the skills of diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, including acute illnesses seen in the economically disadvantaged, and subspecialty patient referrals. The form...

MED303A

Cardiology Clerkship-Inpatient/Outpatient Consult

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Emphasizes the acquisition of diagnostic skills related to cardiovascular evaluation. This experience is derived through active participation in the inpatient consultative cardi...

MED303B

Cardiology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Exposes the students to all areas of clinical cardiology. Students participate in four half-day ambulatory care cardiology clinics on Tuesdays, perform at least 3-5 new consulta...

MED303C

Cardiology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Students are part of a cardiology team that consults on hospitalized patients, sees outpatients one half day session/week, and attends didactic conferences including:Internal Me...

MED304A

Cardiovascular Medicine Clerkship - Inpatients

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: General cardiology rotation remains part of the bread and butter core of internal medicine inpatient rotations. Advances in diagnostic imaging, rapid bedside testing and evidenc...

MED305A

Hematology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Exposes students to the conceptual basis of hematology, the factual information that is available, and the responses required for consultation and patient care in rapidly evolving...

MED306A

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Provides students with a comprehensive experience in clinical endocrinology by combining inpatient and outpatient experiences at Stanford. Students may also participate in clini...

MED308A

Immunology/Rheumatology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: A comprehensive clinical experience in rheumatology. Students attend five weekly clinics, gaining familiarity with the evaluation of new patients and the longitudinal follow-up of...

MED308C

Rheumatology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Introduces students to patients with different forms of arthritis and related rheumatic diseases. Emphasis is on the specific examination of muscles, bones, and joints and importan...

MED311D

Advanced Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: The Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center offers a dynamic academic clinical clerkship in advanced medicine. Students serve as the primary provider for their patients:...

MED312C

Advanced Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Involves an advanced level of inpatient care responsibility. Under the close supervision of faculty and residents the student is expected to function as an intern, caring for th...

MED313A

Ambulatory Medicine Core Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: In the ambulatory medicine clerkship, students will attend ambulatory clinics and didactics over the course of the four weeks. All students will attend Monday morning ambulatory...

MED314A

Advanced Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Intended for students in their second clinical year who are able to proceed to an advanced experience similar to an internship. Students see patients with a wide variety of int...

MED317C

Medical ICU Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: An in-depth, four-week rotation in the general medical ICU of the SCVMC. Students work as an integral part of a large ICU team aiding housestaff in managing a wide range of critic...

MED318A

Palliative Medicine

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The clerkship provides medical students in-depth exposure to palliative care across the continuum of care including several ambulatory clinics, an inpatient consult service, and ho...

MED319E

The Community Health of the Underserved Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: The Community Health of the Underserved clerkship is part of the Racial Equity to Advance a Community of Health (REACH) Initiative. The clerkship will provide students with a...

MED321A

Inpatient Medical Oncology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Offers an intensive, inpatient, subspecialty care experience, equivalent to a subinternship. Students are responsible for 2 to 5 patients who are seriously ill with a broad rang...

MED322A

Outpatient Medical Oncology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Familiarizes students with the subspecialty of medical oncology through subspecialty patient care in clinics and tumor boards and attending the weekly conferences of the Divisio...

MED323A

Trans-Disciplinary Breast Oncology Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: This 4 week trans-disciplinary breast oncology clerkship cuts across the relevant treatment modalities and emphasizes interdisciplinary, patient-centered care. Breast cancer i...

MED325A

Gastroenterology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Involves participation in inpatient consultations and outpatient clinics. Students are responsible for evaluating patients with major diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal tra...

MED325B

Gastroenterology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Gives students responsibility for both inpatient consultations and the evaluation and treatment of referred patients in the Gastroenterology clinic. Rounds with the faculty consult...

MED325C

Gastroenterology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides experience in outpatient and inpatient gastroenterology (GI). In the mornings, students will evaluate outpatients referred to GI clinic and will also have a...

MED326A

Hepatology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Involves participation in inpatient consultations and outpatient clinics for 4 weeks. The goals are to familiarize students with evaluation and management of patients with major li...

MED328A

Addiction Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors (only select visiting students who are pre-approved). TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Due to COVID some rotation sites such as County sites may be unavailable. During COVID most visit will be virtual and 3 days...

MED330A

Pulmonary Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Helps students develop the attitudes and skills necessary for the evaluation and management of patients with pulmonary disease. Students are expected to understand pulmonary diseas...

MED330C

Pulmonary Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Affords students an opportunity to deal with a broad range of clinical pulmonary problems. Working as part of a busy consulting service, students develop a practical approach to ev...

MED331A

Advanced Work in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The content of this clerkship is flexible. Students can do additional clinical work in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine or research work in the Division of Pulmonary and Critic...

MED334A

Nephrology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides students with an introduction to clinical nephrology, including diseases of the kidney and disorders of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance. The clerkship is availab...

MED334C

Nephrology Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Students see patients in the outpatient renal clinic, and on an active inpatient service. The diverse patient population at SCVMC enables student to encounter patients with a wide...

MED338A

Outpatient Infectious Diseases Elective

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides medical students with an elective course of 2 weeks of outpatient ID experience. Clinical experiences will focus on antibiotic selection, utilization and...

MED339B

Advanced Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Intended for clinically experienced students who seek an advanced experience similar to an internship. PREREQUISITES: MED 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks...

MED340B

Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and the multidisciplinary approa...

MED342A

Geriatric Medicine Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: This clinical experience introduces students to the principles of effective geriatric care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Geriatric faculty and fellows work with stu...

MED343B

Palliative Care Clerkship

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Teaches the natural history, prognostication, and management of serious illnesses. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes desirable in a compassion...

MED344A

Elective in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Organizational Change

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Mentored practice and growth in knowledge, skills, and attitudes in quality improvement, patient safety, and organizational change. Students engage in directed readings, attend ses...

MED347A

Stanford Perioperative Internal Medicine Rotation

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The Stanford Perioperative Internal Medicine elective is a two-week inpatient rotation that will provide the students a clinical immersive experience in medical management of Ort...

MED370

Medical Scholars Research

Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.

MED390

Curricular Practical Training

CPT Course required for international students completing degree requirements.

MED397A

MD Capstone Experience: Preparation for Residency

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This 1-week clerkship provides senior medical students an opportunity to review and practice a wide variety of knowledge and skills that are essential to preparing them to work e...

MED398A

Clinical Elective in Medicine

VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides an opportunity for a student in the clinical years to have a clinical experience in one of the fields of Medicine, of a quality and duration to be decided upon by the st...

MED399

Graduate Research

Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

MED399M

MTRAM clinical and/or translational research rotation

Students are paired with a research or clinical mentor for a rotation (School of Medicine faculty or Stanford University service center/core facility director or physician mentor at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, o...

MED53Q

Storytelling in Medicine

Stories are at the core of medical practice, but the skills developed are applicable across disciplines, including technology and business. Storytelling in Medicine is a new sophomore seminar designed to teach skills in multiple modalities of storyte...

MED54Q

Decolonizing Global Health

In this seminar, we will look at how global health discourse has changed over the years and discuss possible future directions for global health exchanges. This course will introduce students to the various definitions of global health from colonial...

MED71N

Hormones in a Performance-Enhanced Society

(Formerly 117Q) Preference to first-year students. Explores how the availability of hormone therapy has affected various aspects of daily lives. Topics include the controversies concerning menopause and its treatment; use of hormones in athletics; co...

MED73N

Scientific Method and Bias

Offers an introduction to the scientific method and common biases in science. Examines theoretical considerations and practical examples where biases have led to erroneous conclusions, as well as scientific practices that can help identify, corre...

OUTDOOR60

Introduction to Flyfishing

Introduces students to flyfishing and its constituent components as a sport and an art. Emphasizes basic skills needed to learn how to cast and tie knots. Students will learn basic stream ecology in order to better understand complex aquatic ecosyste...

OUTDOOR9

Travel as a Sacred Journey Towards Presence, Practice, and Purpose

Engage travel and pilgrimage as intentional contemplative practice for exploring one's life purpose. Experientially investigate, both individually and collectively, outer journeying as a support for inner reflection on meaning making and values creat...

WELLNESS102A

Body Mapping: Tracing the Embodied Experiences of Your Life

Body Maps in various forms have been used for thousands of years by people searching for a better understanding of their bodies and their place in the world. This weekend intensive combines self-reflection, artistic expression, and an anthropological...

WELLNESS105

Meeting the Moment: Inner Resources for Hard Times

In the face of social, economic, environmental, and public health upheavals, many of us are experiencing an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, isolation, and stress affecting academic and day-to-day life. Challenging times ask us, in a voice louder...

WELLNESS106

Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter

In this experiential class, students will engage in meaningful, spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another. This class introduces students to models of spiritual wellness from different religious traditions, fosters dialogue across d...

WELLNESS106B

Spiritual Wellbeing and Religious Encounter: Creating Community

Engage in meaningful spiritual dialogue and religious encounter with one another, fostering a conversation across differences. Explore ways to nurture meaning and purpose in daily life through experiential learning activities. Expand your religious l...

WELLNESS107

Behavior Design: Tiny Habits for Health and Happiness

Enrich your life with more humor and happiness, guided by BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab. This course covers how human behavior really works, the Tiny Habits method, the myths of motivation, and a systematic way to design your li...

WELLNESS110

The Science of Motivation and Procrastination

Examine the factors that increase motivation and decrease procrastination from a scientific point of view. Investigate research and models of motivation and procrastination in task engagement arising from the fields of psychology, behavioral economi...

WELLNESS111

Exploring Happiness

Explores how research-based happiness theory and principles are applied to enhance daily and life satisfaction. Positions happiness as a cornerstone construct of personal wellness, purpose, and fulfillment. Investigates the science of happiness throu...

WELLNESS113

Sleep For Peak Performance

Do you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or experience daytime fatigue? Sleep is a basic form of human nourishment that affects every aspect of performance. This course covers rudimentary neuroscience while focusing on techniques to enhanc...

WELLNESS114

Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing Your Effectiveness and Balance

Examine the science and practice of emotional intelligence and how it increases effectiveness and balance. Utilize leading frameworks and tools for enhancing emotional and social intelligence, including the understanding, managing, perceiving, and us...

WELLNESS115

Why Decisions are Difficult: Making Wise Choices from Love to Lunch

Examine why making decisions can be difficult and how making wiser decisions enhances satisfaction, happiness, and life success. Investigate practical decision-making frameworks and skills while building awareness around common decision-making fallac...

WELLNESS116

Resilience: How to Bounce Back

Examine the science and practice of resilience. Investigate the emerging field of resilience studies and learn the frameworks and skills that allow people to bounce back more quickly and effectively from life challenges. Topics include mindset and co...

WELLNESS117

Changing For Good: Behavior Change Science & Practice

Change behaviors using evidence-based techniques. Addresses the roles of habit cycles, procrastination mitigation, productivity enhancement, motivational factors, self-compassion, and addiction and addictive processes (both substances and non-substan...

WELLNESS118

Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills

Learn to cultivate and sustain emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy in relationships. Course takes a sex-positive approach. In addition to scholarly readings on science-based perspectives, the course includes individual, paired, and group exercis...

WELLNESS119

Cultivating Healthy Romantic Relationships

Explore the factors that support healthy romantic relationships from psychological, sociological, historical, and cultural perspectives. Investigate the questions, What is a healthy romantic relationship and how do I know if my relationship is health...

WELLNESS122

Work With Purpose: Design Your Career

Presents meaningful work as an essential component for life-long wellbeing. Discusses decision making, navigating change, mindfulness, self-compassion, and resilience as these topics relate to your career journey. Blends lecture, discussion, individu...

WELLNESS123

Living on Purpose

Explore the art and science of purpose-finding as it relates to living a more flourishing life at Stanford and beyond. Investigate the contemplative, psychological, social, and communal factors that deepen meaning-making, support authenticity, and en...

WELLNESS125

Live Better Longer: Enhancing Healthspan for Longer Lifespan

Explore ideas and practices that extend healthspan, the number of years we live free of disease or disability. Translate scientific research around current healthspan theories and understand social behaviors and available technologies that support ra...

WELLNESS127

Driving Your Metabolism

Examine the main factors impacting metabolic rate including stress, sleep, movement, and nutrition. Review the science behind the continual need for nourishment from these factors and how they work together synergistically down to the level of gene e...

WELLNESS130

Meditation

Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Practices in guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion, mindfulness and mantra meditation will...

WELLNESS130A

Meditation

Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Practices in guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion, mindfulness and mantra meditation will...

WELLNESS131

Compassion Meditation

Compassion meditation is an ancient, much studied practice of cultivating care for all beings, including ourselves. This course introduces the various dimensions of compassion and mindfulness meditation, emphasizing experiential learning of practices...

WELLNESS132

Breathwork for Wellbeing

Discover the power of the breath as a gateway to reach a meditative state of mind. Combine meditative practice with activities that inspire connection and purpose through community building and mindful leadership. Learn through breathwork, meditation...

WELLNESS133

Meditation Retreat: Weekend Campus Intensive

Introduces diverse forms of meditation practice in both theory (contemplative neuroscience, phenomenological traditions) and practice. Selected practices in focused attention, mindfulness, guided imagery, compassion, loving kindness, positive emotion...

WELLNESS135

Mindful Self-Compassion, Strength, and Courage

Investigate how harsh self-criticism adversely impacts well-being, strength, and performance. In contrast, explore how mindful self-compassion (MSC) enhances emotional well-being, increases resilience and strength in coping with life challenges, and...

WELLNESS136

Meditation and the Brain: Practicing the Science and Art of Contemplation

Investigate the power of meditation for training the mind and changing the brain, specifically in focusing attention, enhancing awareness, and generating compassion. Going beyond meditation as a tool for simply reducing stress, this course grounds th...

WELLNESS138

Mindfulness and Stress Management

Effectively manage stress through mindfulness meditation strategies (sitting and movement-based) that positively impact the brain-body system to enhance clarity, focus, and energy. Examine tools for assessing perceived stress and mindfulness, current...

WELLNESS140

Wellness Through Queerness

Explore the intersection of queerness, sexuality and wellbeing. Learn skills and practices to associate queerness with thriving and flourishing. This course integrates empirical psychological and neuroscientific research, community history, and healt...

WELLNESS141

Flourishing While BIPOC: Reclaiming our Ways of Wellness

This class will offer important life skills centering the needs, experiences and challenges of BIPOC students. Skills/topics covered may include communication and relationship skills, interviewing for jobs, self- and community-care, and cooking/meal...

WELLNESS142

The Art of Grief

Learn the fundamentals of grief education. Explore artistic and cultural expressions of grief and psychological meaning-making after loss. Utilize readings from psychology, engage in class discussions, and explore a range of creative modalities acros...

WELLNESS150

Introduction to Nutrition

Optimize nutrition for health and performance based on established and emerging research. Discern between popular trends and scientific understandings of healthy nutrition and nutritional habits. Topics include evidence-based analysis of macronutrien...

WELLNESS152

Mindfulness and Food

What is it like to savor life and build on a positive relationship with food? Explore how mindfulness practice and intuitive eating principles can bring awareness to factors that influence mind-body health and well-being. This experiential class cove...

WELLNESS156

Science and History of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a unique system for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as for the cultivation of life-long health and well-being. This course introduces basic TCM theories, practices, and treatment methods including...

WELLNESS158

Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening

This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating "See One, Do One, Teach One" with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful...

WELLNESS160

Wellbeing Technology, Design, and Leadership

Wellbeing technologies come with tremendous potential and innate challenges. At their best these technologies can help humans heal, grow, and expand their minds. When used out of integrity, privacy can be breached, anxiety and hypervigilance increase...

WELLNESS162

Digital Wellbeing: Healthy Relationships with Technology

We live in a brave new world where technology is integrated into almost every aspect of daily living, which has benefits and drawbacks. A creative approach to designing a mindful, healthy integration of technology with lifestyle can influence flouris...

WELLNESS163

Meditation and Technology

Challenge the traditional definition of meditation while examining and using the latest meditation technologies that amplify attention and awareness. Learn how these technologies can be integrated into existing practices or help support new meditator...

WELLNESS164

Designing Wellbeing

Design processes and technologies that support wellbeing and human connection. Learn about research-based models of human flourishing, explore existing technologies, and interact with innovators and thought leaders in the field of transformative desi...

WELLNESS170

Laughter & Play for Wellbeing

Learn about and practice laughter yoga, combined with theater exercises. Laughter yoga (distinct from traditional movement-based yoga) is a modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing. Explore the growing field of research on lau...

WELLNESS171

Laugh to Relax

Learn about and practice laughter yoga, a unique and playful modality that integrates laughter exercises with yogic breathing (this practice is distinct from traditional movement-based yoga). Explore the growing field of research on laughter yoga and...

WELLNESS183

Financial Wellness for a Healthy, Long Life

This course will ground you in the knowledge, skills, and habits you need to identify and achieve your financial goals. We will infuse behavior science and psychology into our exploration of personal finance concepts (e.g., credit, debt, saving, and...

WELLNESS191

Peer Education on Comprehensive Sexual Health

Presented by the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center (SHPRC) and the Weiland Health Initiative, this class is open to all interested in sex and sexual health and required of students planning to become counselors at the SHPRC. Course addresses sexual...

WELLNESS192

Peer Support: Creating Spaces for Healing and Growth

Social support is an integral part of the human experience and a core pillar of human well-being. Explore ways you can be an effective source of support for your peers, using models, skills, and practices rooted in positive psychology, leadership stu...

WELLNESS198

Directed Reading and Individual Studies - Wellness

Translate theoretical knowledge and acquired skills into actionable wellness projects that enhance an aspect of wellness within the Stanford community. Students work in collaborative groups or individually under the mentorship of the course instructo...

WELLNESS199

Selected Topics: Wellness

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular quarter. May be repeated with change of content. For more information regarding specific course titles and topics...

WELLNESS256

Lasting Letters and the Art of Deep Listening

This course is an interactive course focused on developing listening skills essential to health care providers. Integrating 'See One, Do One, Teach One' with practices from the arts and humanities, students will develop tools physicians find useful i...

WELLNESS81

Claiming Your Stanford Experience: Encountering People, Ideas, and Places

Engage your Stanford experience at a deeper, more authentic level through conversations with luminary Stanford faculty and experiential, creative immersions into signature Stanford places and spaces. Using a weekly fireside chat format with a cross-s...

WELLNESS99

Kinesthetic Delight: Movement and Meditation

The words meditation and mindfulness often conjure images of people sitting quietly in peaceful contemplation. However, as contemplatives and scholars from various fields have argued, though the brain resides in the cranium, the mind functions throug...

Department: Department of Medicine