The PISCE 5 course consists of Health Equity curriculum which will focus on the knowledge and skills related to health equity including poverty, social determinants of health, health equity, racism in medicine, behavioral medicine and populations health. The modules of the PISCE 5 course include the Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. These modules will build on the material already studied in the PISCE 1-4 courses focusing on the integration of foundational basic science knowledge and clinical medicine and will prepare the students for the PISCE 6 & 7 courses. The Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health modules will incorporate pathology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of each system. The final week of the PISCE 5 course will be an Integration Week. During that week, the PA and MD students will work together on integrated cases to revisit and connect the material they have learned across the PISCE 5 course.

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