Bringing global issues to medical teaching

Bateman, Catherine; Baker, Tim; Hoornenborg, Elske; Ericsson, U.B.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(01)06586-2

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“…Doing so will foster students' interests at an early stage in their career and increase the chances that they will serve in other underserved environments as doctors with specific expertise. The expanding role of global health in undergraduate medical curricula 44,45 should be matched by a proportionate increase in the number of international opportunities for students. Didactic teaching of global health issues that relate to access to health care and inequalities in health services and outcomes cannot match the real life experiences of an overseas clinical rotation in developing countries.…”

Section: Opportunities For Medical Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Surgery: Thoughts on an Emerging Surgical Subspecialty for Students and Residents

Leow

Kingham

Casey

et al. 2010

Journal of Surgical Education

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Section: Opportunities For Medical Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Surgery: Thoughts on an Emerging Surgical Subspecialty for Students and Residents

Leow

Kingham

Casey

et al. 2010

Journal of Surgical Education

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“…11,12 These electives may also play a role in career choices, such as whether to work in primary care or in underserviced areas, in their own country or abroad. 4,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] In addition to the personal and professional development of participants, a review of cross-cultural experiences showed that medical schools and the host population benefited. 19 International electives do face several challenges.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Integrating CanMEDS competencies into global health electives: an innovative elective program

Valani

Sriharan

Scolnik

2011

CJEM

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Globalization has opened the doors for medical students to undertake international health electives, providing an opportunity for them to gain valuable competencies and skills outside their formal curriculum. As the number of medical students embarking on these electives increases, there is a need to structure the electives with specific learning objectives and to ensure adequate educational outcomes.We describe the International Pediatric Emergency Medicine Elective (IPEME), which is a novel global health elective that brings together students from Canada and the Middle East who are selected on the basis of a competitive application process and brought to Toronto for a 4-week living and studying experience. The program was introduced in 2004 and uses four specific areas to provide its structure: pediatric emergency medicine, global health, leadership, and peace building. The elective uses core CanMEDS competencies to foster cross-cultural dialogue, networking, and cooperation and fulfills the program's aim of using health as a bridge to peace.The lessons learned from the curriculum planning and implementation process are highlighted and the impact of the program explored to help provide a framework for developing similar international electives. RÉ SUMÉLa mondialisation a ouvert les portes aux é tudiants en mé decine qui souhaitent faire un stage en santé mondiale. C'est là une occasion d'acqué rir des compé tences et de dé velopper des techniques utiles en dehors de leur programme officiel. Cette formule é tant de plus en plus populaire, il s'avè re né cessaire de structurer ces stages au choix, de dé finir des objectifs d'apprentissage pré cis et de pré ciser des ré sultats é ducationnels adé quats.Nous dé crivons le stage au choix en mé decine d'urgence pé diatrique internationale (International Pediatric Emergency Medicine Elective ou IPEME). Il s'agit d'un nouveau stage en santé mondiale pour des é tudiants du Canada et du MoyenOrient choisis dans le cadre d'un processus concurrentiel. Ils se ré unissent à Toronto où ils poursuivent un programme d'é tudes de 4 semaines. La structure de ce programme, cré é en 2004, s'articule autour de 4 domaines : la mé decine d'urgence pé diatrique, la santé mondiale, le leadership et la consolidation de la paix. Les rô les CanMEDS sont utilisé s pour favoriser le dialogue interculturel, le ré seautage et la coopé ration. Le stage ré pond à l'objectif du programme, qui consiste à utiliser la santé pour construire un pont pour la paix.Nous mettons en é vidence les leç ons tiré es de la planification des programmes et du processus de mise en oeuvre et analysons l'incidence du programme en vue de dé velopper d'autres stages internationaux au choix de ce genre.

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“…The focus has instead tended to be on the inclusion of additional bodies of knowledge, which in themselves become questioned within an overcrowded curriculum. (see Bourn and Neal, 2008;Bateman, Baker., Hoornenborg and Ericsson, 2001). These are often provided in the form of optional 'extras'.…”

Section: Health and Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global perspectives for global professionals in the UK: engaging students within engineering and health

Blum

Bourn

2013

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Abstract:The discourses around globalisation and internationalisation within higher education to date have tended to focus on institutional change. While recognising the importance of these debates, this paper suggests that issues around curriculum change and teaching and learning through global professions such as health and engineering have so far been largely neglected. Using evidence from the UK and Ireland, the paper looks particularly at how students perceive the importance and value of global perspectives to their professions. It concludes by noting that there is evidence of interest in integrating global perspectives within health and engineering degree courses from students, but that this raises major challenges concerning discipline-based knowledge, valuing differing perspectives, and approaches towards teaching and learning.

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Bringing global issues to medical teaching

Cited by 125 publications

References 5 publications

Global Surgery: Thoughts on an Emerging Surgical Subspecialty for Students and Residents

Global Surgery: Thoughts on an Emerging Surgical Subspecialty for Students and Residents

Integrating CanMEDS competencies into global health electives: an innovative elective program

Global perspectives for global professionals in the UK: engaging students within engineering and health

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