Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study among German medical students to identify needs, deficits and potential benefits (Part 2 of 2: Knowledge gaps and potential benefits).

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Germany, educational deficits or potential benefits involved in global health education have not been analysed till now.

Objective

We assess the importance medical students place on learning about social determinants of health (SDH) and assess their knowledge of global health topics in relation to (i) mobility patterns, their education in (ii) tropical medicine or (iii) global health.

Methods

Cross-sectional study among medical students from all 36 medical schools in Germany using a web-based, semi-structured questionnaire. Participants were recruited via mailing-lists of students' unions, all medical students registered in 2007 were eligible to participate in the study. We captured international mobility patterns, exposure to global health learning oppo

SUBMITTER: Bozorgmehr K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2958968 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature