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Courses
of Interest
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"International
Health in the Developing World: Clinical and Community Care."
A summer elective course offered by the University of Arizona
College of Medicine in Tucson, AZ. This is a "Practical,
intensive, orientation course
for medical students who are planning to work either short or
long-term in a developing country within the next one or two
years."
Contact: Ronald Pust, MD
International Health Course
Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
Univ. of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ 85724
Phone: 520-626-7962 (7822)
Fax: 520-626-6134
Email: RPRUST@U.ARIZONA.EDU
- International
Health Exchange, IHE, London. Long and short courses worldwide,
click on training
- The
Swiss Tropical Institute (worldwide courses) click on Teaching and
Training
- Management of
Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (annually at Case Western, 1 week
in summer, inexpensive housing, 216-844-5050; June 24-28, 2003)
- Medical
relief/refugee work (Medecins Sans Frontieres, Doctors of the World,
International Rescue Committee, Child Disaster Network
- Health
and Child Survival Fellows Program (paid program 1-2 years)
- Boston
University Summer Certificate Program: International Health, 3 months
- Tufts University
Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance; 1 year program; Feinstein
International Famine Center; 617-627-3429
- CDC
Training Program in Epidemiology, etc.
- Future volunteer
work--International Medical Volunteers Association, www.imva.org
- Case Western Annual
Course in International Health (phone 216-368-6321, one month long,
often July or September)
- Gorgas
Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine--Peru (University of Alabama,
800- 822-6478)
- International
Health in the Developing World: Clinical and Community Care
- International
Course in Tropical Medicine--Costa Rica (Louisiana State University)
- Take a medical
Spanish or French/health course
IHMEC lists dozens of programs, Spanish
and French (click on "Resources" then Foreign Language Study)
Work Study Spanish:
Community Health Work (Mexico Pacific Coast)
AMSA's "SALUD" Programs
University of Nebraska's "Medical
Spanish/International Health" program,
University of Southern
California's Summer Medical Spanish Program (Mexico)
Interhealth South America,
International Health and Medical Spanish (4th year
students and residents; and summer program for 1st year medical students)
contact Dr. Don Wedemeyer, or
813-935-3480
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