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ReviewBMC medical education2023

From the Global North to the Global South: preparing students for away rotations.

Riccardo Serraino, Darius Owachi, Susan Nassaka Byekwaso, Catherine Misango Namara, Kennedy Naigambi, Francesco Castelli, Carlo Torti

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Review in BMC medical education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Equity in basic medical education accreditation: A scoping review.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Riccardo Serraino"Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Darius OwachiCollege of Health Sciences, Makerere University of Kampala, Kampala, Uganda.
Susan Nassaka ByekwasoCollege of Health Sciences, Makerere University of Kampala, Kampala, Uganda.
Catherine Misango NamaraCollege of Health Sciences, Makerere University of Kampala, Kampala, Uganda.
Kennedy NaigambiCollege of Health Sciences, Makerere University of Kampala, Kampala, Uganda.
Francesco CastelliUNESCO Chair "Training and Empowering Human Resources for Health Development in Resource-Limited Countries", University of Brescia, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Carlo Torti"Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. torti@unicz.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, has established partnerships with several other institutions worldwide, including the University of Brescia and "Magna Græcia" University, which have agreed to collaborate for the primary purpose of student exchange. Our aim is to comment on students' preparation for away rotations based on the authors' own experiences and opinions alongside a review of selected papers on the preparation of students for global health and ethical collaboration. Medical electives represent a unique opportunity for all medical students, not merely for those who will work in resource-limited settings due to increasing globalization. The emergence of ethical international collaborations is of paramount importance to stimulate these projects and ensure that they are implemented safely and with adequate preparation even and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indexed as

COVID-19MedicineStudents, MedicalGlobal HealthHumansPandemicsUgandaGlobal healthGlobal worldInternational medicineMedical educationTraining

Identifiers

PMID36759807
PMCPMC9910765

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