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List of Opportunities for Medical Students and Residents
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- Himalayan
Health Exchange or Ravi Singh (404) 929-9399 or Dr William Norton
(912) 685-5997 and nbnorton@pineland.net
- Hospital Materno
Infantil Hospital ER and Nutrition Ward in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Dr Lucy Matamoros is also looking for support in educating families
in her Red Cross Hurricane Mitch victims village in Catacamas, Olancho.
The hospital on the coast in Gracias a Dios, Hospital Bayan, through
Dr Tim Thurber (Timnmiriam@aol.com)
- China opportunity
through Health for Humanity - Dr Tim Thurber (Timnmiriam@aol.com)
- Hospital Infantil
in Zacapa, Guatemala. The "hospitalito" was founded with
the help of two of professors at U Texas Children's at Houston. It
is really an outpatient clinic. One resident saw between 20 and 40
patients a day. Dr. O'Callahan went with two ther residents and there
was also a Guatemalan Pediatrics Resident and the hospital's staff
physician. Most of what we saw were URIs and AGE, but there were also
patients with parasites, malnutrition and other conditions. There
is housing for the residents on the hospital grounds. Contact Elizabeth
Lowenthal at edlowenthal@hotmail.com
- Comprehensive
Rural Health Project, Jamkhed: rural Maharashtra in India. This project
was started in the early '70s by Drs Raj and Mabelle Arole, now very
well known in international public health circles as the project (Comprehensive
facility and carry out the programs (including medical, outreach health
education, agricultural, child welfare, among work in public health.
The residents/sutdents work under the supervision of Dr Arole ro his
daughter. Dr Shobha Arole, now curretnly the director of the Project
in Jamkhed. This program does not focus on pediatrics but involves
a comprehensive approach to health care for all members of the family.
Dietra Millard at dmillard@enh.org
(Neonatologist at Northwestern in Chicago)
- Religious/missionary
groups (Christian Medical and Dental
Associations, click on Global Health Outreach; American
Jewish World Service; Catholic Medical
Mission Board; World
Medical Mission/Samaritan's Purse)
- Contact NGOs directly
(refer to long lists on AAP
website: or the International Medical
Volunteers Association's website, click on "Help Wanted"
e.g. America-Nepal Alliance for Health takes 4th year students and
residents, contact Jack Starmer)
Belize Rural Elective
(Medical College of Wisconsin)
Child Family Health International (Mexico,
India, Ecuador, S. Africa)
Omnimed Program (Belize, Kenya)
BOTUSA Project
(6 month research elective in Botswana)
Christian Medical and Dental Associations
(some scholarships) click on global Health Outreach; Medical Missions
Caribbean Clinical Elective Program (Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, St.
Vincent, Trinidad). Contact Mrs. Brenda
Cooper-Williams, St. George's University, Phone: 473-444-1179;
St. George's General Hospital, Grenada, W. Indies (3rd, 4th years
and residents; contact Sister Anestasia 473-440-5494; Dr. Phillip
Finlay, Director of Clinical Services; for those interested in pedi,
Dr. Beverly Nelson
Senior
Medical Elective in Immigrant Medicine--**In Houston, TX ** (Baylor
Medical College)
Rural India Medical Elective (click
on "International Health and Medical Education Program")
International Federation of Medical
Students' Associations (IFMSA)
Ghana Health and Education
Initiative
Wilderness and Tropical Medicine Rotation (Belize) Contact Dr.
Keith Brown, Nebraska Family Medicine MD,
- Review websites
and books that list medical elective opportunities
- International
Health Electives for Medical Students
(click on "Action Committees" then "Global Health,"
at the bottom "Check Out Our Global Health Resources" then
"Training Opportunities"
- Massachusetts
Medical Society's Global Medicine Network lists many links (click
on Resources, then Resident Section)
- University
of Toronto e.g. Scroll down to "other" and click on
International Student Elective Program for electives in S. Africa
- International
Health Care Opportunities in Family Medicine: A Guide for Practicing
Family Physicians, Family Practice Residents, and Medical Students,
3rd ed. Published by the American Academy of Family
Physicians, 326 pages. To order, call 800-944-0000; or online
- International
Emergency Medicine Rotations Database. Developed by BU Dept. of
Emergency Medicine.
- See IHMEC's
"Job and Field Placement Opportunities," and click on "Resources"
then "Annotated List of International Health Related Websites"
- IHOP
(International Health Opportunities) Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences
Center
- Short-term medical
missions often take medical students/residents, for example:
Operation Smile (plastic
and reconstructive surgery teams) takes 4th year medical students
also,
MEDICO (Medical, Eye, and Dental
International Care Organization) conducts short-term trips to Honduras;
Interplast, Inc. (plastic
surgery, cleft lip/palate)
See AMSA website for many more (click
on "global health" then "international health"
then "international health opportunities" see courses International
Health Central American Institute (click on Programs)
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