Establishing a Virtual Global Health Education Partnership: The Cleveland-Cusco Connection.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Cleveland-Cusco Connection (CCC) elective was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to continue global health (GH) education for Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) medical students. The CCC elective was held over Zoom and aimed to promote international collaboration, knowledge about health systems, and perspectives in GH with synchronous and asynchronous learning.

Methods

Peruvian and US medical students participated in six monthly sessions consisting of student presentations and large and small group discussions. The elective was led collaboratively by CWRU and UNSAAC students. We evaluated students' experience using pre- and post-course surveys.

Results

Nineteen students (76%) comple

SUBMITTER: Lenhard NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9469813 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature