Healthy, safe and effective international medical student electives: a systematic review and recommendations for program coordinators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thousands of medical students undertake international medical electives each year. These students face potentially substantial health and safety risks as well as educational and ethical challenges and therefore should undertake their electives within well-structured and coordinated programs.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative systematic review based on a pre-determined protocol. Relevant publications and guidelines relating to international medical electives were identified through a review of the literature using on-line search engines, principally PubMed. We then conducted a systematic qualitative synthesis to extract relevant publications. Finally, the literature was organized according to themes, with the aim of developing a structured set of Recommendations f

SUBMITTER: Watson DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6448218 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature