Each semester, the McGovern Center sponsors a number of blue book electives (also called extracurricular electives), optional short courses designed to enrich and enhance the medical student’s core curriculum experience. While blue books are open primarily to McGovern Medical School students, some of the McGovern Center’s electives are made available to students of other schools, including UTHealth’s Schools of Dentistry, Nursing and Public Health, and Baylor College of Medicine.

Spring 2019

• Arts and Resilience
• Humanities in Film

Fall 2019

• Art of Observation
• Introduction to Medical Humanities

Spring 2020

• Art of Observation
• Gun Violence and Physicians: What you need to know

Questions about the McGovern Center’s 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 develop, please contact Rebecca.Lunstroth@uth.tmc.edu or Thomas.Cole@uth.tmc.edu.

Please contact the Office of Educational Programs for general questions about blue books, including the process for proposing an elective series.  This office also maintains an online system containing all available electives for each academic year.