UMD HLSA 484 Entire Course

University of Maryland HLSA 484 Redesigning Health Care Developing a Clinic to Meet Community Needs Entire Course

Provides an opportunity for students to learn a key entrepreneurial skill, Design Thinking while helping to build, reshape, redesign and transform the delivery of health care in the Mona Center, a new community center and clinic in Prince George’s County. This new, modern vision for a health and wellness clinic embraces student involvement in designing, planning, and contributing to innovative programs, solutions, and processes to improve the clinic’s ability to meet community and patient needs by addressing the social determinants of health as well as traditional clinical health status. Students in the class will develop empathy for patients, providers, and other stakeholders, define problems, select a specific problem for intervention, understand problems based on stakeholder input, ideate, reframe and suggest options to solve or address the problem, prototype solutions, test ideas, and make recommendations to inform implementation and ongoing measurement and monitoring of impact.

Note: This entire course includes discussions, assignments, course projects, and exams.