Developing a global medicine student pre- and post-travel curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The popularity of short-term global health experiences amongst US medical students has been increasing. However, it remains a challenge for medical schools to comprehensively prepare students to work in an international environment and to contribute in ethically responsible and meaningful ways. Students of the Global Medicine program (GMED) of the UIC College of Medicine Center for Global Health set out to develop a pre-and-post travel curriculum that addresses some of these challenges.

Methods

The students surveyed the literature of 66 published global health curricula and identified aspects of pre-and-post travel training that were found to be under-addressed. They then developed a curriculum in conjunction with GMED faculty that incorporated these identified as

SUBMITTER: Mehta N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10559584 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature