What The Best International Healthcare Training?
Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »As a medical student I dreamed of sharpening my skills on behalf of the world's most poor. I dreamed of attending the esteemed John's Hopkins School of Public Health, taking the diploma course at the London or Liverpool School of ...
Pregnancy Can Be Dangerous!
Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Some 600,000 women die worldwide each year from pregnancy-related causes, and 98 percent of these deaths occur in developing countries. The major causes of maternal deaths in developing nations, in numerical order of importance, are hemorrhage, peripartum sepsis, abortion, eclampsia ...
What We Never Talked About In Medical School
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »How would you work to improve the health of an entire community, rather than just one person at a time? We NEVER talked about this when I was in medical school, not even during our tiny public health course. I ...
What’s Your Global Health Curriculum?
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »What curriculum do you use to complement global health classes, international electives, study abroad, or even cross-cultural competency? Unfortunately, most universities and residency programs have little to offer beyond thick textbooks. For the last year, Micah Flint and I have ...
Teaching To Shoot
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I'm enjoying the company of 65 global health minded people for the two weeks of INMED's International Medicine Intensive Course and International Public Health Intensive Course. For two years I lived in Angola at the height of their civil ...
Your Suggestions To Make Short-Term Medical Missions More Effective
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »In May’s INMED newsletter I posed the question, “Are short-term medical missions (STMM) effective?” Responses from you the readers were plentiful and absorbing. You said that we should recognize both the pros and cons of such service: "Advantages for our ...
Are Short-Term Medical Missions Effective?
Monday, May 9th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Each year some 5,000 healthcare teams depart the US to service in a developing country - usually for 7-10 days duration. A growing number of authorities are questioning the efficacy of this enormous outlay of time and resources, posing the ...
Are You Licensed For Short Term Medical Missions?
Friday, April 29th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »“In Haiti over eight days we saw 900 patients, treating infections and diarrhea. The people are desperately poor and were so very grateful for the medical care.“ This young physician spoke with enthusiasm. But then his voice turned somber, describing ...
Make A Lasting Contribution: Teach Your Skills
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »How can you and I contribute to lasting care and progress in the world’s most impoverished communities – like sites in northern Ghana, urban India, or rural Papua New Guinea? Clearly our efforts to support basic literacy and economic development ...
Rescue Has Limitations
Friday, March 18th, 2011 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Disasters and epidemic disease continue to mark this new century: Haiti's earthquake, Pakistan's flood, measles’ blight, and Zimbabwe’s cholera. The title waves in Japan last week are the most recent reminder of life's vulnerability. The heartening response from many is ...