“…Many of these partnerships have involved students from high-resource countries (HRC) travelling to low-resource countries (LRC) for clinical practicums. The academic global health community and the nursing discipline specifically, have identified competencies needed by these students for successful partnerships (Brown, 2014;Chavez, Bender, Hardie, & Gastaldo, 2010;Clark, Raffray, Hendricks, & Gagnon, 2016;Melby et al, 2015;Rowthorn & Olsen, 2014;Wilson et al, 2012Wilson et al, , 2014Wilson et al, , 2016. However, heretofore the collection of these competencies has not been synthesized and delineated by educational level, such as Why is this research or review needed?…”