An undergraduate medical education framework for refugee and migrant health: Curriculum development and conceptual approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

International migration, especially forced migration, highlights important medical training needs including cross-cultural communication, human rights, as well as global health competencies for physical and mental healthcare. This paper responds to the call for a 'trauma informed' refugee health curriculum framework from medical students and global health faculty.

Methods

We used a mixed-methods approach to develop a guiding medical undergraduate refugee and migrant health curriculum framework. We conducted a scoping review, key informant interviews with global health faculty with follow-up e-surveys, and then, integrated our results into a competency-based curriculum framework with values and principles, learning objectives and curriculum delivery methods and eva

SUBMITTER: Gruner D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9109444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature