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Syllabi on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust

1. Full courses syllabi:

Course name

Teacher

Location

Target audience

Length of course

Format

Assesment

Note worthy 

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Medical (MAL) Practices Under the Nazi Regime

Sari J. Siegel, PhD

Ceder Sinai Hospital, Los Angles, USA

Hospital affiliates in training and post training as well as the general public

6 weeks - 6 sessions of 90 minutes

Lectures and readings

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Open to the general public

Anatomy and Ethical Transgressions in National Socialist (Nazi) Germany

Sabine Hildebrandt, MD

Harvard University, Boston, USA

Freshman medical students

14 weeks - 4 credit points

Lectures and readings

Weekly readings, final essay projects and presentations

Optional reading included youtube links of films and interviews

Medical Ethics After the Holocaust

Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD

Ohio State University College of Medicine, Ohio, USA

4th year medical students

150 hours content, 4 AC credits

10 in person classes with 3 hours prereading

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The Holocaust And Medical Ethics

Dr. David Brenner

University of Houston, USA

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3 credits

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Weekly quizzes 30% Moderating class discussion 10% Class participation 15% MIDTERM EXAM 10% TERM PAPER (“research paper” in stages) 35%

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The Holocaust: Lessons For Medicine

Prof. Dr. Esteban González López, Prof. Rosa Ríos Cortés

Department of Medicine. Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain

Elective course, open to students in any year of studies

3 credit points

Lectures

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Medicine And Nursing In The Holocaust And Onwards

Prof. Shmuel Reis

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Elective course for Medical students and Nursing students

2 credits, 13 weeks

Virtual

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Memory and Representation in Holocaust Cinema

Dr. Barbara Hales

University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA

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15 weeks

Reading and film watching at home in preparation for class discussion

One in-class presentation, weekly reader response papers, 20-25 page original term paper on a theme which evolves from class material

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Healing by Killing: Medical Ethics after the Holocaust

Sheldon Rubenfeld, M.D

Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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30 meetings

Bi-weekly lectures

1 short paper on medicine during the Third Reich, 1 short paper on American eugenics and 1 final paper on medical ethics after the Holocaust

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Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing and Medical Education in Australia

Linda Shields, Peter Hartin, Kirril Shields, Susan Benedict

Australia

Australian nursing/midwifery >> Medical schools

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Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust

Miriam Offer, PhD

Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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13 weeks

Lectures

End of course examination

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FASPE Medical

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Berkin, Krakow and Oświęcim

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13 days

Tour

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Medicine and the Holocaust

Tessa Chelouche, MD
Omer Goldstein, MD

Technion  University Medical School, Haifa, Israel

2nd -3rd year students, Elective course

12-13 lessons, 2 hours each

Guest lecturers, Film and videoed material

8-10- page paper on a subject of  choice, which may include the interview of a Holocaust survivor

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Bioethics and the Holocaust

Stacy Gallen, PhD

MIMEH & New York Medical College

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14 weeks

Virtual Zoom meetings

Reflection Assignments (2 per week)

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Reflections on Medicine in the Holocaust רפואה בָּבוּאַת השואה

Matthew Fox, MD

Shani Levany, BSc

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Second Year Medical school students

13 weeks, 2-hours lecture each week

Lectures and class assignments + reflective writing

Participation, Reflective writing

Formally an elective, as of 2021 a required course

Genetic Engineering: Miracle for Humanity or New Pathway to Eugenics?

 Mannie Liscum,  Michael Garcia

Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri

Honor students 

One semester,

3 credit points 

Hybrid course, In-Person, Asynchronous, Online

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An Introduction to the History of Medicine for Students of Medicine

Edward C. Halperin 

Touro College

All first year Medical Students

1 Semester

A series of 4 lectures within the History of Medicine course 

Term paper either interviewing a Holocaust survivor or biographical essay about a famous person in the history of medicine

The most extensive required and elective Holocaust education program of any medical college in the United States

Ethical and Scientific Legacy
of the Nazi Medical Crimes

Torben Jorgensen

DIS - Study Abroad in

Scandinavia

Ethics, History and Public Health students

1 Semester,

24 classes

Lectures

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NAZISM AND THE HOLOCAUST

Wildenthal, Lora J.

Rice University Department of History

15 undergraduate

students 

1 Semester,

3 credit points

Online seminars

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Immoral Medicine

Jonthan Krane

Emory University

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1 Semester,

26 hours

Lectures

Reflective writing+ IRB proposal

Observing IRB meetings as a Field trip

Holocaust and genocide

Zvika Orr, 

Anat Romem

Department of Nursing, Jerusalem College of Technology

Mandatory for all Masters Degree nursing students at the integrated MSN + NP program

1 Semester

Lectures, group discussions,
film analysis, survivor testimony, interactive peer learning, student presentation

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Study day at Yad Vashem and a study day in the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum

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Ethics, Medicine & the Holocaust: Legacies in Health & Society

Daniel S. Goldberg

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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1 Semester

Lectures

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Social media usage 

Medicine Nazism & Holocaust

Miriam Offer & Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan

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1 Semester

Online lectures

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Medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust (MNH)

Volker Roelcke

Giessen University Medical School

Medical Students 

Lecture series spaning 4 years in semesters 1, 5 and 8

Lectures, group discussions,
film analysis

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Science, Medicine, and the Holocaust

Prof. Daniel Bitran

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA

15 undergraduate students

1 Semester

Lectures, presentations, reading assignments, home-exams

Reactions to readings, participation, attendance, poster presentation, oral presentation, home-exams

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2. Single seminars or classes, either annual or one time events:

Course name

Teacher

Location

Target audience

Length of course

Format

Assesment

Note worthy 

Document

Educating Internal Medicine Residents on the Role of Physicians

during the Holocaust

Aleena Paul, MD, MBA, MSEd
Lauren Block, MD, MPH

Northwell Health 
Internal Medicine Residency program 
NY, USA

Internal Medicine residents 

One session as part of the time embedded into ambulatory educational half-days during the year 

watching AAMC recorded webinar “Legacy of MNH & Contemporary Relevance" followed by reflections in writing 

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The Legacy of the Role of Medicine and Nursing in the Holocaust for
Resilient Professional Identity Formation

Hedy S. Wald Julie A. Kruse

Nursing School Okland University Rochester

Nursing students

2 hours invited seminar

One Hour seminar + 45 Min Colloquium

Reflective writing

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Legacy of Medicine During the Holocaust & Contemporary Relevance 

Hedy S. Wald, PhD, and Sabine Hildebrandt, MD

Online AAMC Virtual Seminar

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2 hours

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Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust

Various 

Online

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Webinar

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Center for Medicine, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies

Various

Online

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Webinars

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Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program

Various

Online

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Webinars

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Introduction to Medicine and the Holocaust for Pediatricians

Shani Levany, BMedSci

Saban Hospital for Children, Beer-Sheva, Israel

All medical personals - senior physicians, residents, interns, medical students

45 minutes

Lecture

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3. Seminar-Tours:

Course name

Teacher

Location

Target audience

Length of course

Format

Assesment

Note worthy 

Document

Cultivating Medical Awareness and Ethics Using the Example of Medicine in National Socialism 

Various

Witten-Herdecke Faculty of Medicine, Germany

Mostly medical students, to date, psychology and
business studies students have also participated

Mult year curriculum with varying length of field trips as well as  7-10 sessions of  1.5 – 3.5h or
content-related small-group and preparatory work pre and post field trips

Seminar trips to memorials and extermination sites in Germany

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Witnesses in White 

Matt Fox MD, Rael Strous MD

Israel, Poland, Germany 

IMA physician members 

5 day traveling seminar with 2-3 hour pre and post tour meetings 

Seminar trips to memorials and extermination sites in Germany and Poland 

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IDF Witness in Uniform Medical Corps seminar Tours to Poland 

Anthony S Oberman MD, Tal Brosh-Nissimov MD , Nachman Ash MD

Poland 

IDF medical corps officers (MD, RN, and Axillary staff)

5 day traveling seminar with 2-3 hour pre and post tour meetings 

Seminar trips to memorials and extermination sites in Poland 

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FASPE Medical

Various 

Berlin, Krakow and Oświęcim

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13 days

Tour

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Holocaust and Medicine Program
Study Trip to Auschwitz 

Jason Adam Wasserman, PhD, HEC-C, Hedy S. Wald, PhD

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Competative application to the 20 donor funded student spots in the seminar by 2nd year medical students who recieve  

Pre-trip curriculum, a 7-day trip to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, and a post-tour workshop on site

Seminar tour

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