The MHHS Program offers undergraduate students courses to earn a minor or individualized major in MHHS. Additionally, several graduate-level courses offered annually. Courses cover such diverse topics as ethics in medicine and health care, death and dying, examining medicine in film, health care communication, the history of medicine, and many more. Students benefit from the expertise of faculty from many schools including Liberal Arts, Medicine, Nursing and Law.

MHHS students graduate with an increased awareness of the complexity and distinctly human social and individual experiences of health, illness and medicine. Students may plan to go on to medical, dental, pharmacy, law or business school, or graduate programs in bioethics. But an MHHS program of study also prepares students for a broad range of professional and scholarly paths. Whatever path our graduates chose, their MHHS experience serves them well. One former student, now an educator in the medical field, wrote that she uses her MHHS education daily, both as a practitioner and as a teacher. Another, who has been admitted to a pharmacy doctoral program says the MHHS individualized major program helped her on a journey of self-exploration to find what she sensed she was missing, i.e., a humanistic perspective of healthcare.

The MHHS Program also presents monthly lectures and periodic national symposia open to students, the health and broader IUPUI campus, as well as the interested general public. Its faculty members are active in local and international research projects in areas of medical history, global health, medical ethics and narrative.