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A new Lafayette summer interim session program involving a class and separate internship in London will focus on comparing health care in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Stephen Lammers, Helen H.P. Manson Professor of the English Bible, and Alan Childs, professor of psychology, will lead students in “Ethical & Social Issues in Health Care in the UK and the U.S.” May 23-July 2.
The traditional course will cover ethical and social issues in health care. Each student also will serve an intensive, individual health care internship at a health facility in London, where Lammers recently traveled to confirm arrangements.
“They will be interviewed for their internships in the early spring so that when they arrive, they will have an interview and will be set up for the internship,” says Lammers. “I have also located two health care libraries that they can use.”
The internships will be arranged by European Union Studies Association, which has arranged internships at psychiatric wards, homes, and hospitals; refuge centers for women; research facilities such as University of London, King’s College, Anna Freud Centre, British Medical Association, Cranstoun Drug Services, Health Development Agency, and Institute of Psychiatry; government agencies; and facilities such as Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability and Ealing Day Treatment Centre.
Participants will be housed in student flats in the South Kensington section of London that include communal study rooms, TV rooms, and day rooms. Students will have a mobile phone, a travelcard, and Internet access from their rooms. A weekly cleaning service will be provided. A wide range of shops and restaurants are nearby, as well as Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, and numerous museums, including the Victoria and Albert, Science, and Natural History.