(medical school/ future specialty/ country of experience)
South America/Central America:
U. of Chicago/ Preventive Medicine/ Brazil :
Surely the best course on international health in the entire U.S.A.!
Strongly recommended -- a "must" for those interested in international
health. One of my best experiences in medical school.
U. of Arizona/ Family Practice/ Guatemala:
The course really opened my mind to cross-cultural medicine, different
world views and health views, and being creative and looking for resources where you are.
It helped me to be aware, through the 3rd and 4th years, of alternatives to hi-tech
medicine which is not available to most of the world -- including many people in the USA.
I am very grateful for the course and glad it's still going strong. I learned
about teamwork, too.
North America:
U. of Arizona, College of Nursing/ Community Health Nursing, M.S./ Los
Angeles Public Health Dept:
The course was invaluable in helping me to plan my career &
teaching strategies in international health care in the Los Angeles County. It made
me much better prepared to face the constant challenge of providing nursing care to the
tremendously diverse population of new immigrants now moving into this area.
U. of Washington/ Family Practice resident of U. of Arizona/ Tucson
AHCCCS Patient Care:
Have found the course useful (despite lack of international experience)
when working with patients with limited access to medical resources, and those with
travel-related health concerns.
Illinois/ Surgery/ Nigeria:
Superb. The course has an appropriate blend of theoretical
practical information: good prep for field work.
Wayne State/ Ob-Gyn/ Kenya:
I think your course was beneficial for me in putting what I saw in
Haiti in a better perspective and what to expect at the rural hospital in Kenya. But
I don't think anyone can quite prepare you for the first-hand experience of a third world
country.
Baylor/ Pediatrics/ Kenya:
Your course really helped me make the whole idea of third world work
more tangible and real to me. In this way, I feel I was much better prepared to go
and was therefore able to contribute much more. Indeed, there was no day that I was
there that I didn't think of you two and the class in some way or other!
U. of Colorado/ Family Practice/ Papua New Guinea:
This course still shines as the outstanding learning experience of
medical school. Among the best taught, best planned, most practical courses I have
ever taken.
Yale/ Primary Care Internal Medicine/ Philippines:
The best thing I could have done in preparation for the year I spent in
the Philippines. I used the syllabus extensively and the hospital still uses it for
the community outreach program.
U of Arizona/ Family Practice/ Papua New Guinea
and India
The course helped me understand aspects of disease/health
maintenance in the developing situation both from a clinical and epidemiological stand
point. Perhaps the best part was in meeting people with shared interests and ideas. I
found the course to not only be very informative but also very inspiring.
St Lukes at Cape Coast/ Family Practice/ India
It helped prepare (me) for the 'big picture' of what to expect
in the developing world. I was able to understand the socioeconomic reasons behind the
rampages of infectious disease, the undernourished children, the non-compliant patients,
and so on. It helped me to work with these people from where they are at, not from where I
think they should be. I also found myself thinking more 'community' solutions rather than
getting smothered by each individual situation.
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