Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
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Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
The Holocaust, Medicine, and Becoming a Physician: OUWB Study Trip to Auschwitz
In 2022, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine began offering a new transformative learning opportunity to its medical students through the OUWB Holocaust and Medicine program.
Part of the program -- the OUWB Study Trip to Auschwitz -- is designed to prompt students to delve into this distinctive and tragic era in the history of medicine and critically reflect on its implications for one’s own personal and professional development within the medical profession.
The inaugural trip was June 13-20, 2022. The seven-day trip centered on guided tours in Krakow, Poland, as well as the sites of the former Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Special lectures, and interactive workshops also were part of the trip.
Here is a brief overview:
A seven-week seminar follows the OUWB Study Trip to Auschwitz, taken for credit as part of the Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics (MHCB) 3 course, in which students will discuss and reflect upon the trip experience, the relevance of this history to contemporary medicine, and develop projects to disseminate what they learned at a symposium dinner as well as to other community groups at OUWB, OU, and beyond.
OUWB invites you to learn more below about the experience, preparations, and program directors.
(Note: Photo at top of page is of the OUWB cohort that travelled to Poland for the Study Trip to Auschwitz in 2022.)
