Each semester, the McGovern Center sponsors a number of blue book electives (also called extracurricular electives), optional short courses that are designed to enrich and enhance the medical student’s core curriculum experience. While blue books are primarily open to UT medical students, some of these electives have been made available to students of other schools, including UTHealth’s Schools of Dentistry, Nursing and Public Health, and Baylor College of Medicine.
Spring 2018
- Climate Change, Film, and Human Life
- Gun Violence & Physicians: What You Need to Know
- History of Medicine
- Hot Topics in Ethics
- Sacred Sites of Houston
Fall 2018
- Art of Observation
- Fundamentals of the History of Contemporary Medicine
- Introduction to Medical Humanities
Spring 2019
- Art of Observation
- History of Medicine
- Popular Modalities of Complementary Medicine
- Suffering: Pathographies of Mental Illness
- The Healer’s Art
Questions about blue book electives may be sent to Angela.Polczynski@uth.tmc.edu.
If you are a student seeking sponsorship for a series you want to coordinate, please contact Rebecca.Lunstroth@uth.tmc.edu.