Global Is Local: Does Formal Resident Global Health Medical Education Improve Clinical Care in the United States?

ABSTRACT: We administered a standardized 41-item questionnaire to a convenience sample of graduates of five residency programs with formal global health pathways and compared findings to a national cohort of practicing physicians to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of an overarching global health pathway on residency program graduates. Compared with the national cohort database, global health pathway graduates self-reported that they felt better prepared to treat immigrants, refugees, patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), racial/ethnic minorities, those with non-Western health beliefs, international travelers, and military veterans (P < 0.05). They were more likely to report using best practices when working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning patients, immig

SUBMITTER: Erayil SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8641338 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature