ArticleBMC medical education2016
Developing consensus for postgraduate global health electives: definitions, pre-departure training and post-return debriefing.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Impact of Global Health Electives on US Medical Residents: A Systematic Review.Annals of global health · 2018Pooled it
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- Healthy, safe and effective international medical student electives: a systematic review and recommendations for program coordinators.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2019Review
- Using multiple mini interviews as a pre-screening tool for medical student candidates completing international health electives.Medical education online · 2018Article
- Medical students' perception of international health electives in the undergraduate medical curriculum at the College of Medicine, King Saud University.Advances in medical education and practice · 2018Article
- Enhanced skills in global health and health equity: Guidelines for curriculum development.Canadian medical education journal · 2017Article
- Tackling challenges of global health electives: Resident experiences of a structured and supervised medicine elective within an existing global health partnership.Canadian medical education journal · 2017Article
- Improving the Safety and Security of Those Engaged in Global Health Traveling Abroad.Global health, science and practice · 2016Article
- Support infrastructure available to Canadian residents completing post-graduate global health electives: current state and future directions.Canadian medical education journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundGlobal health (GH) electives are on the rise, but with little consensus on the need or content of pre-departure training (PDT) or post-return debriefing (PRD) for electives in postgraduate medical education.
methodsUsing a 2-iteration Delphi process to encourage discussion and consensus, participants from 14 medical schools across Canada provided input to promote more uniform policy towards defining GH electives, when PDT and PRD should be mandatory and what curriculum should be included.
resultsThere is consensus that PDT and PRD should be mandatory for international electives. Respondents felt that PDT should include a broad range of topics including objectives, travel safety, personal health, logistics, ethics of GH, scope of practice/supervision, and cultural awareness. PRD should include elective evaluation, lessons learned, knowledge translation, review of health and safety, and issues of reintegration. The format of PDT and PRD needs to be individualized to each institution to fit within the limitations of faculty who can serve as facilitators. Global health educators agreed on the importance of mandatory PDT and PRD for remote Canadian aboriginal electives, but did not feel that they could make recommendations without additional input of aboriginal scholars.
conclusionsAll residency programs that send residents on international electives should work towards instituting quality, mandatory PDT and PRD. PDT and PRD should be recognized by universities as having academic merit and by program directors as core resident learning activities. Curriculum and objectives could be arranged around CanMEDS competencies, a physician competency framework that emphasizes qualities beyond medical expert such as professionalism, health advocate, and collaborator.
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