“Mini-Medical School” For The Public Back With More Offerings, Two “Micro-Courses”

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Fall sessions of the University at Buffalo’s popular Mini-Medical School -- which filled all of its openings when first offered in May -- begin on Sept. 9 with a repeat of the original six-week program, followed by a new five-week program on subjects requested by previous participants and two “micro-courses.”

All classes will be held from 7-9 p.m. in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on UB’s South (Main Street) Campus. Registration fees range from $30 for the six-week program to $10 for the one-session micro-course. Advance registration is required.

All classes will be taught by full-time UB faculty who are experts in their fields.

The six-week program will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 9, and will feature presentations on cardiology, neuroanatomy and neurosurgery, microbiology and infectious diseases, oncology (cancer), immunology and psychopharmacology.

The five-week program will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Lectures will focus on the digestive system and its disorders, the respiratory system and its disorders, allergies, childhood endocrine disorders and adult endocrine disorders.

A two-session micro-course, “Navigating the New Health Care System,” will be held on Thursday, Oct. 9, and Thursday, Oct. 16. Presenters will be Harry A. Sultz, D.D.S., M.P.H., UB professor of social and preventive medicine, and Kristina M. Young, president of the Center for Professional Advancement at Bryant & Stratton Business Institute and adjunct assistant professor in the UB School of Management.

Sultz and Young are co-authors of “Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery.”

A one-session micro-course on Thursday, Oct. 30, will feature Peter Ostrow, M.D., and a panel of experts discussing medical controversies. Ostrow is a UB associate professor of pathology and host of WIVB-TV’s “Medical Update” segment.

To register or obtain more information, call 829-2196.