The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics

Healthy Choices for Kids

 

HKC LogoThe Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics and the School of Nursing have teamed up to develop a summer elective called "Healthy Choices for Kids," which we offered as a pilot program in 2008.

 

Jeanette Quiroga teaches students about heart disease and strokeThere are two components to this course: a two-week didactic course on how to teach junior high students to make healthy choices, and a two-month community service learning project at Good Samaritan Center, located at 1600 Saltillo in West San Antonio. At Good Sam Day Camp medical, nursing and pre-professional students team up and implement the curriculum they developed during the didactic course.

 

 

Sample Didactic Schedule

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8:30-9: Course Overview and HKC Survey
9-12: The Culture of Poverty lecture and workshop
1:30-4:30: Tour Good Sam as a group, small group windshield tour and scavenger hunt.

7-10: Teaching Fitness to Kids and Drug Use Prevention
10-11: Discussion of Healthy Kids Surveys
12-3: Behavior Change Communication and the Positive Deviance Method of Assessing Nutrition and Educating Communities

7-11: Teaching Fitness to Kids, Walking the Walk
11-12: Obesity and Diabetes Prevention
1-3: Behavior Change Communication and the Positive Deviance Method of Assessing Nutrition and Educating Communities
3-4: Bienestar Program

7-11: Teaching Fitness to Kids, Walking the Walk
1-3: 'Honey, We're Killing the Kids'

 

8:30-11:30: Teaching Fitness to Kids, Walking the Walk and Soler's Sports Vouchers
1-4: Student Presentations: Impressions of Good Sam tour
4-5: Social Determinants of Health

 

Undergraduate volunteer Jason Pressig and medical student Ashley Garcia play basketball with a group of junior high campers.		  

Nursing student Linu Mathew teaches kids at Good Sam how to measure their steps with a pedometer.