INTERNATIONAL
HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD:
CLINICAL AND COMMUNITY CARE
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Course Schedule |
Week One: 3 Major Problems Community Solutions |
The goal of this interactive course is to
prepare fourth-year North American medical students, primary care residents and other
health care professionals to "join the team" at a rural district hospital.
Working and learning under local leadership, prepared and adaptable clinicians can work
alongside this team devise and deliver clinical and community care appropriate in the
developing world. Using a small-group, problem-based format, this intensive course introduces students to the clinical, public health, cultural, and economic issues which mold the lives and health of the people they will help serve. The course faculty reflects this team approach from an interdisciplinary background. Drawn from family practice, pediatrics, nutrition, public health, health education, internal medicine (infectious disease and parasitology), obstetrics, nursing, physical therapy, dentistry, hydrology and anthropology, faculty bring to the course not only their expertise but also their personal and professional experience. The course is developed around five integrated process areas (Assessment, Problem Definition, Program, Roles, and Regions). Together, these five provide a process-oriented approach to the complex problems of living and working in the developing world. Sample 3-week schedule (PDF format) Click here |