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HCMC
Global Health Pathway
Beginning in 2006,
HCMC residents will be able to participate in our Global Health Pathway.
This is an opportunity to learn in depth about issues of international
medicine especially in the developing world. The pathway
consists of a number of components, including conferences, clinical oppor-tunities
here and abroad, research opportunities, mentorship and a diploma course
in tropical medicine and hygiene.
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There
are a multitude of international health conferences now coordinated
across the city with many residency programs. These conferences
focus on tropical medicine, immigrant health and global health disparities.
There are also clinical experiences and electives locally with immigrant
and refugee patients, both here at HCMC in our immigrant clinics
and at other sites in town, including public health clinics and
refugee coordinating centers. These experiences are open to all
residents regardless of choosing the pathway.
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Another
aspect of HCMC's Global Health Pathway is the opportunity to do
research of a number of varieties. Locally residents can work in
infectious disease labs focusing on tropical medicine. There are
also many opportunities for clinical research in immigrant communities.
Some of this clinical research is in infectious
disease, especially HIV/ AIDs , tuberculosis and tropical disease.
Other research involves issues facing immigrants such as acculturation,
access to care, and health disparities.
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Furthermore
there are research opportunities with community partner-ships,
developing and evaluating programs to improve health in immigrants
and refugees, such as diabetes care in Somalis
and HIV education in African immigrants.
There are also research
opportunities abroad with our partner institutions in India,
Costa Rica and other countries. Previous residents have: developed
an enteric fever algorithm for India, analyzed a community
nutrition intervention program in a Bangalore slum and surveyed
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In partnership
with the CDC a diploma course in tropical medicine is being developed
in the Twin Cities coordinated by the U of M. HCMC is one of the
key clinical sites and is providing many of the faculty. This course
will be open to residents free of charge to HCMC residents during
their training, with the intention that they could sit for the exams
after having completed the Global Health Pathway and the diploma
course. The course will be offered in the fall of each year.
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HCMC
has strong collaborative partnerships with a number of universities
outside of the US. Key among these are St. Johns in Bangalore, India
and UCIMED in Costa Rica. Residents are able to do clinical and/or
research rotations at these and other sites during electives in
residency.
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A number
of HCMC faculty have careers with work both in the US and abroad. These
faculty are terrific mentors as people consider international careers.
Many faculty mentors practice intentionally in collaboration with immigrant/refugee
communities. Also available are our international faculty partners at sites
around the world. Researchers in India mentor our residents through clinical
research projects. Former graduates and faculty work in Laos, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, India, Madagascar and the Sudan as well
as with Doctors Without Borders and Doctors for Human Rights. These physicians
are eager
mentors
via e-mail and in-country.
HCMC has a
large population of immigrants and refugees (nearly 40%). We have clinics
in Somali, Russian and Spanish as well as an interpreter staff of over
40 full time, medical interpreters. HCMC has many opportunities to treat
immigrant patients as well as work with immigrant and refugee health programs
focusing on areas such as HIV/ AIDs, health literacy, cancer, mental health
and domestic violence.
- Teresa Anderson-Barrera presented “Health Literacy in Spanish Speaking Immigrants” at the Tropical
and Travel Medicine meeting in London, September 2007
- Shuli Bonham elective in Aurvedic medicine and yoga in India, 2007
- Milind Junghare elective in tropical nephrology in Chang Mai, Thailand, 2007
- Oge Alozie elective in HIV/Cardiology in Nigeria
- Brett Carlson elective in cardiology education in Ghana and Ivory Coast 2006
- Edwin Bogonko elective in cardiology education in Ghana and Ivory Coast 2006
- Stefan Collinet-Adler presented his research "Malaria
in Minneapolis" at the International Travel Medicine meeting in London,
November 2005
- Ashley Newberry published in Chest, "Disseminated
Strongyloides," 2005
- Jonathon Kirsh published in Lancet, "Informed
consent for family planning for poor women in
Chiapas,
Mexico" in conjunction with Doctors for Human Rights, 1999
- Sarah Kesler currently in Darfur, Sudan with Doctors
Without Borders
- Rosemary Quirk, program director of first Internal
Medicine residency in Laos
- Julia Grigoriev hospital medicine education and care delivery Philippines 1/2008
- Melody Mendiola medical support of surgical care team, Philippines 1/2008
- Kevin Larsen faculty- Advancements in Medicine 2007, A US & Caribbean Perspective, Jamaica, 2/2007, 2/2008
- Thomas Stillman visiting professor UCIMED, Costa Rica 2007
Martin Stillman and Thomas Stillman, school building in Kenya 2007
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David Williams, Scott Davies, Carmen Divertie, and Kevin Larsen invited speakers - XIV Congreso Nacional y XXVIII Curso Internacional de Medicina Interna, Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna, Lima, Perú, 10/2006.
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Anne Pereira, Mark Sprenkle and Shawn Mallory visiting professors, UCIMED, Costa Rica 2006
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James Leatherman visiting professor St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India 2005
- Hernando González, UCIMED, Costa Rica, 7/2006, 7/2007
- Manuel Montoya, Universidad de Hospital Regional, Cusco, Perú 7/2007
International Partners
HCMC partners with the University of San Antonio Abad and the Hospital Regional of Cusco, Peru. Through this partnership Dr. Manuel Montoya has developed teaching cases with questions and photographs.
See Global Cases.
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