Course Schedule

Every day will start with a 45 minute seminar, followed by a movie projection and then a 45 min movie discussion. 

Date: 14 to 18 December 2015

Frist Year Students - B104 10:30 till 14:30 every day

Second Year Students - B101 14:00 till 18:00 ever day

First day
Seminar: Development of cinema and movies
Movie: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) – discovery of the first cure for syphilis, life of a Nobel prize winner immunologist Paul Erlich

Second day
Seminar: Dark side of medical research
Movie: Miss Evers' Boys (1997) – Tuskegee experiment, research on racial differences

Third day
Seminar: Movie frames and optical illusions
Movie: Something the Lord Made (2004) – discovery of the surgical procedures for Fallot tetralogy

Fourth day
Seminar: Professionalism and reserach
Movie: Awakenings (1990) – waking up patients suffering from encephalitis lethargica.

Fifth day
Seminar: Multicentre research
Movie: Wit (2001) – research on ovarian cancer

Exam - Last Day - 10 open ended questions about the movies and the topics covered. Print page