Minors: Additional Areas of Focus, M.S. Program
UCSF School of Nursing, Master of Science Program
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO CONTENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
UCSF School of Nursing, Master of Science Program
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO CONTENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
The Department of Family Health Care Nursing offers a minor in diabetes, the Madison Clinic Peggy Huang Diabetes Nurse Fellows Program. This program provides students with additional expertise in the area of diabetes across the lifespan with courses that focus on the medical management of pediatric and adult diabetes, as well as the behavioral aspects of self-management of a chronic condition. Students will have the opportunity to engage in cutting edge clinical practices including the UCSF Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes, the UCSF Justine K. Schreyer Adult Diabetes Care Center and other family practice and community clinics that treat a significant number of patients with diabetes.
The Department of Physiological Nursing offers a minor in genomics. This program provides students with additional expertise in the area of human genomics with a focus on the use of genomics in the health care setting. The minor requires that students complete three courses offered in a series totaling eight units. For details on the Genomics minor, please contact the Department of Physiological Nursing.
The UCSF School of Nursing now offers a minor in Global Health. This program will offer students the opportunity to examine nursing issues that affect the global community, ranging from infectious diseases in other countries, to refugee concerns within the Bay Area. With a focus on health disparities and program planning, this minor prepares students to become experts and leaders in nursing care at the local, national and international level.
The minor in health policy offers students the opportunity to analyze and critique health policy issues at local, state, national, and international levels. The minor requires that students complete three health policy courses. Theories of the Policy Process (N253) is required in addition to 2 other health policy courses not otherwise required by the specialty curriculum. A variety of courses with a health policy component are available (Check UCSF course listings for current offerings.)
The International Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing, within the UCSF School of Nursing, offers a minor in HIV/AIDS. This program provides students with additional expertise in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and care, with courses addressing issues such as epidemiological concepts, public health policies, clinical pharmacology, HIV/AIDS chronic illness care, and sociocultural issues. HIV/AIDS training at the UCSF School of Nursing taps into unique UCSF and San Francisco resources, and links students with nationally and internationally recognized HIV/AIDS experts and Centers of Excellence in HIV research, education and clinical training.
The Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Minor is offered to students in other specialties who wish to increase their understanding of mental health problems and their management, and to develop additional skills in this area.