Spring 2027

Health Care Systems: Interdisciplinary Approach

An interdisciplinary introduction to health care systems covering factors affecting health, delivery settings, worker roles, and sociological/economic aspects.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David Dwyer3.4/5Tracy Seiler-Schultz3.3/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · David Dwyer

For a 2-credit course, students reported extensive reading, detailed notes, two long papers, weekly discussion posts with three-paragraph replies, and projects requiring research on claimed topics.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Discuss selected contemporary problems, issues, and trends in health care services for individuals, groups, and populations from local, regional, and global perspectives.

  • Describe and compare the impact of health and medical services, including environmental, behavioral, genetic, and biological factors, on personal and public health.

  • Discuss the influences of technological, social, cultural, economic, and political forces on the organization of health care systems and delivery of health care services.

  • Critically evaluate similarities and differences in health care systems and service conceptualization, organization, and delivery from national and international perspectives.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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NURSING/SOCWORK 105

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Professors

Spring 2027
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About this rating

Raw average: 3.19/5 from 21 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 3.1/5 raw quality · 2.9/5 difficulty · 10 reviews

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Past student reviews · David Dwyer

Professor David Dwyer assigned weekly discussion posts, quizzes, and projects, which some students found heavy for a two-credit course. Opinions on his lectures varied from informative to boring. Grading was described as consistent by some, but others reported strict deductions for trivial errors. Quizzes tested specific details from video lectures, requiring detailed note-taking and consistent preparation.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.63 GPA, 85.6% A/AB (n=306 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 89.9% A/AB (n=258 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=322 letter grades).

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captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 1.25/5 from 4 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

No course-specific feedback yet.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Past student reviews · Sarah Kruger

Sarah Kruger taught the class using guest lecturers, assigned readings, and weekly quizzes. One student found the quiz-based grading helpful for understanding the material, while another noted the class was easy to pass and recommended it even to non-nursing majors. A later review mentioned the shift to exam-based grading increased stress for first-year nursing students.

DAVID DWYER is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SARAH KRUGER is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 3450
DIS 301Online Only0 / 300
DIS 302Online Only0 / 300
DIS 303Online Only0 / 300
DIS 304Online Only0 / 300
DIS 305Online Only0 / 300
DIS 306Online Only0 / 300
DIS 308Online Only0 / 300
DIS 307Online Only0 / 300
DIS 309Online Only0 / 300
DIS 310Online Only0 / 300
DIS 311Online Only0 / 10
LEC 001Online Only0 / 2200
DIS 301Online Only0 / 00
DIS 302Online Only0 / 300
DIS 303Online Only0 / 300
DIS 304Online Only0 / 300
DIS 305Online Only0 / 300
DIS 306Online Only0 / 300
DIS 308Online Only0 / 00
DIS 307Online Only0 / 300
DIS 309Online Only0 / 200
DIS 310Online Only0 / 00
DIS 311Online Only0 / 00

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · David Dwyer

One student found David Dwyer passionate and knowledgeable, while another found his lectures boring and the Canvas page disorganized.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.63 GPA, 85.6% A/AB (n=306 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 89.9% A/AB (n=258 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=322 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · David Dwyer

For a 2-credit course, students reported extensive reading, detailed notes, two long papers, weekly discussion posts with three-paragraph replies, and projects requiring research on claimed topics.

Past student reviews · David Dwyer

One student found grading consistent and fair, while another said TAs graded hard for no reason.

Topics

  • Factors affecting health and its value
  • Delivery of health care in different settings
  • Roles of various health workers
  • Sociological and economic aspects of health care

Skills

  • Discussing contemporary problems, issues, and trends in health care services.
  • Describing and comparing impacts of health services and factors on personal and public health.
  • Discussing influences of various forces on health care system organization.
  • Critically evaluating health care systems from national and international perspectives.

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.14 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
NURSING/SOCWORK 105 · Spring 2027

Health Care Systems: Interdisciplinary Approach

Recorded 2026-10-29
NURSING/SOCWORK 105 · Spring 2027

Health Care Systems: Interdisciplinary Approach

Recorded 2026-10-29
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-29

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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