Rediscovering the Germ in Paris:
Past, Present and Future

June 20–28, 2008

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Faculty leaders: Dolores Peters, St. Olaf associate professor of history,
and St. Olaf alumnus Jon Hallberg, M.D., University of Minnesota assistant professor, and creative director, Center for Arts and Medicine

St. Olaf Lifelong Learning and the University of Minnesota (U of M) present an innovative Study Travel program and continuing medical education (CME and CNE) course for doctors and nurses. Discover an engaging way to continue your medical education in the context and settings of French culture and history.

For Medical Professionals: Science and Medicine in Context
This course combines seminars in the Twin Cities and Paris with visits to French institutions that made turning-point contributions to bacteriology and immunology. We study immunology, infectious disease and public health, while acquainting ourselves with the great thinkers who gave rise to germ theory, immunizations and new sanitation practices — developments that transformed the world.

As a medical professional, perhaps you wish to return to school and review some of the science behind the conditions you see in clinic. You may also desire more contextual, interprofessional learning. You’ll get both benefits during this unique CME/CNE course.

Faculty co-leader Dolores Peters says, “For me, the history of medicine demonstrates in a particularly fascinating way the integrative power of historical explanations of human experience.” We study the connection of medical science to its social context to understand medicine from the perspectives of medical experts and lay people alike.

We start with a full day of seminars on the U of M campus. In Paris we continue learning with seminars most mornings, followed by site visits.

Educational Objectives

• Review basic immunology, bacterial and viral microbiology and immunization theory
• Study the characteristics, epidemiology and treatment of rabies, anthrax, major diarrheal illnesses (including cholera) and tuberculosis
• Examine the contributions and public images of René Laennec, John Snow, Louis Pasteur and other medical innovator
• Understand the contributions of French medicine to the development of Western medicine

• Consider social and cultural issues in the development of bacteriology, immunology and public health
• Discuss the ways in which national context influences public understanding of modern medicine and the design of public health programs

An application for AMA Category 1 CME credits has been filed with the U of M Office of Continuing Medical Education. Determination of credit (approximately 12) is pending. Determination of credit for Continuing Nursing Education (approximately 12) is also pending.

For Lay People
The program leaders custom-designed this program for medical professionals and lay people alike. Dolores and Jon believe Paris viewed through the lens of its medical history will appeal to people who want to see the city in a stimulating, thought-provoking way. As a lay person you are invited to attend as many lectures and group activities as you like. The program starts on the U of M campus in Minneapolis with six hours of lectures focusing on science and medicine. In Paris, we take a liberal arts approach, using medicine as the entrée into French society and how it was shaped by medical advances. We also use the history of medicine to compare the differences between French and U.S. health care systems, policies and daily life.

Please see the enclosed itinerary for more information on each day’s theme and activities. If you’re interested in general continuing education units (CEUs), approximately 23 hours are available.

Faculty Leaders: Forging Connections Between Science and the Arts
Dolores Peters and Jon Hallberg delight in studying and enabling connections between medicine and the liberal arts.

Since acting on a persistent curiosity about the history of medicine, Dolores Peters has steadily gained an appreciation for the ways in which medicine permeates a range of historical topics. She has explored the medical notions of gender and examined medical responses to opiate addiction in 19th-century England. More recently Dolores has integrated her study of medicine and the medical profession into her research as an historian of 20th-century France. She is currently examining the role of the French Catholic medical establishment within the larger medical profession from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, a project that allows her to focus on the nature of medical modernization, the notion of family medicine and issues of professional identity. Dolores has worked at archives and libraries in Paris, including the Archives Nationales, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine and the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Jon Hallberg graduated from St. Olaf in 1988 and the U of M Medical School in 1992. He completed a family medicine residency at the U of M in 1995 and was in private practice in downtown Minneapolis for five years. In early 2001 he joined the faculty of the medical school where he is a practicing physician, teacher and mentor. He also provides administrative leadership for a variety of projects.

Since 2003, Jon has served as the weekly medical analyst on the regional “All Things Considered” program on Minnesota Public Radio. He is company physician for the Guthrie Theater and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In May 2006, Jon received the Early Distinguished Career Award, which the Minnesota Medical Alumni Society gives to a physician for exceptional accomplishments within 15 years of medical school graduation.

Jon has been fascinated by the societal and artistic responses to disease, particularly epidemic disease, since he toured in Norway with the St. Olaf Band in 1987. In Bergen, he visited St. Jorgen’s leprosy hospital, where Dr. Armauer Hansen, the inspector-general of leprosy in Norway, worked on isolating the microbe responsible for the disease.

Jon is currently assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the U of M Medical School. He is also co-founder and creative director of the new Center for Arts and Medicine, created to feed “the soul of those who care for the body.” Passionate about medical humanities and education, Jon has written and lectured widely on medicine and the arts since 2003. He has returned twice to teach at St. Olaf: in 1995 with the Interim class “Plagues and Pestilence: AIDS in Perspective” and in 2001 with the class “Epidemic.”

Program Fee
The program fee is $3,350 per person through Feb. 15, 2008. Based on double occupancy, it includes:

• Seminars by Dolores Peters, Jon Hallberg and other medical experts
• Roundtrip airfare from Minneapolis
• Accommodations
• Breakfast daily and several other group meals
• Group tours
• Admissions for group activities
• Ground transportation
• Gratuities

For single occupancy, add $400. For land only (making your own arrangements to and from Paris), subtract $1,350.

After Feb. 15, 2008, the program fee is $3,500 and could be subject to additional airfare because space at the group rate cannot be guaranteed. Payment schedule

The additional fee for award of credits is $240 or CME and $120 for CNE.

Register
Go “behind the seen” with St. Olaf Study Travel. Register online at www.stolaf.edu/studytravel or call toll-free 866-255-6523. A deposit of $350 per person guarantees your space.