Family Medicine
Global Health Elective
General Information
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The Global Health Care Elective is offered to 4th year
medical students as a Cincinnati/ outpatient course.
It is a four-week elective with two weeks of didactics at
the medical school and two weeks in country in a remote
community, participating in patient care and public health
projects. The sites, along with cost and other
information, are described below.
Registering for this elective is a three-step
process.
- submit an enrollment request on MedOnestop;
you
must
choose a site from the drop-down box
- complete and submit the application at the end of
this page
- submit a
non-refundable
deposit of $750 by May 15, 2012; your enrollment request
will not be processed until the deposit is received
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For
Honduras, make checks payable to Shoulder to Shoulder and mail to
Sharon Mullen, Shoulder to Shoulder Inc., 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite
340, Cincinnati, OH 45219.
For
Tanzania, make checks payable to Village Life and mail to Richard
Elliot, Village Life Outreach Project, 3306 Ruther Ave., Cincinnati,
OH 45220.
Didactics
This two-week required experience is held every morning 8:30-12
at The Christ Hospital. There are two field experiences held
on Monday afternoons. The rest of the afternoons are open for
independent study and reading.
Trips and Descriptions
Honduras
- (6 medical students per trip)
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Elective
Months: October
2012, April 2013
Description:
The Honduras experience is set in rural Santa Lucia,
Intibucá, at the Shoulder to Shoulder clinic. The
clinic provides 24 hour service to the residents in the area
including maternity services and inpatient care. The
clinic is an eight hour bus ride form the airport and three
hours over dirt roads from the closest hospital. Every
student will have a variety of experiences including
outpatient care in the clinic, overnight call, public
health projects and home visits.
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Accommodations:
Students stay in dorm type housing near the clinic. All food
is prepared especially for the brigade team members by trained
Honduran cooks.
Cost: $1000
plus airfare (usually ranges between $500 and $800). This
includes all in country food, lodging and transportation. The
brigade fee is tax deductible.
The Honduras Brigade is organized through Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc.
For more information regarding their work, go to
www.shouldertoshoulder.org.
Brazil - (2 medical students per trip)
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Elective Month:
April 2013
Cost: $3,000
This includes airfare and all in-country
costs.
The Brazil Brigade is organized
through Amazonas Hope for Health Inc. For more information
regarding their work, go to
www.amazonashopeforhealth.org.
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Tanzania - (8 medical students per trip)
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Elective
Month:
October 2012
Description:
The Tanzania experience is set in rural Shirati Region,
Rorya District, Tanzania. Participants will have a
variety of experiences, including outpatient clinic work,
mobile field clinic work and public health projects as well
as water and education projects.
Accommodations:
Students stay in dorm type housing. All food is
prepared especially for brigade team members by trained
Tanzanian cooks.
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Cost:
approximately $3,400
– which includes airfare, ground transportation, room and board,
visas and safari fees for the the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
The brigade fee is tax deductible.
The Tanzania Brigade is organized through Village Life Outreach.
For more information, go to
www.villagelifeoutreach.org.
Click here to
complete and submit a Site Visit application.
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