Mini-Medical School to Focus On Understanding Health Care

By Mary Beth Spina

Release Date: April 30, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Understanding health care and making it work for you will be the focus of a three-part, mini-medical-school course designed for the public and sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

The course, which will meet from 7-9 p.m. on May 11, 18 and 25 in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus, aims to help consumers become more savvy about changes and current concepts in health-care delivery.

The course will be presented by Harry A. Sultz, director of the medical school's Health Services Research Program, and Kristina M. Young, executive director of UB's Healthcare Careers Center.

The session on May 11 will focus on understanding health care -- the present and the future -- and what it means to the consumer. The second session on May 18 will concentrate on understanding hospital emergency rooms, medical practices and how to relate to physicians and staff. The session on May 25 will attempt to take the mystery out of Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care, forces of reform and the future of health care.

Sultz and Young are co-authors of "Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery," a text used by more than 200 professional schools to explain the health-care system to medical, dental, nursing and allied-health students.

A former dean of the UB School of Health Related Professions, Sultz is a professor in the UB Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the medical school.

Young, a UB clinical assistant professor of social and preventive medicine, has served as an executive vice president of an integrated corporation of The Buffalo General Hospital and Health Care Plan, Inc. She is president of Kristina M. Young & Associates.

The cost for the course is $25 for individuals, $40 for couples, $20 for a senior citizens, $30 for a senior couple and $15 for students. There is a discount for members of the UB Mini-Medical School Alumni Association.

Due to limited space, advance registration is required. Call 716-829-2196 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday for application forms and information.