Stritch School of Medicine - Elective Course Catalog

Introduction

Center for Service & Global Health

Dept. Contact	Amy Blair, MD
Location	SSOM
Phone	708-216-3222
Email	CSGH@lumc.edu

Department: Center for Service & Global Health

Course Number: CSGH-403

Course Title: International Health: Bolivia

No. of Students:

Site: Foreign

Supervisor: Amy Blair, MD

Duration: 4.0 weeks

Periods Offered:

Prerequisite: Fourth year standing.

Special Note: Contact Dean Mendez (Student Affairs) and Dr. Amy Blair (Center for Service & Global Health) to apply.

Description:
Medical Knowledge:

Students should be able to identify the following:
a) endemic diseases specific to their locale
b) clinical presentation, basic pathophysiology, diagnostic strategies, and prognosis for these endemeic diseases
c) appropriate therapy for these endemic diseases
d) the role of DOTS in integrating health care delivery

Interpersonal and Communication Skills:

Students must demonstrate effective communication skills with their patients, patients' families, and other healthcare providers. Inherent in this expectation is that students will be profivcient in the native language.

Patient Care:

1) Conduct a focus history and physical and offer a reasonable diagnosis and management plan.
2) Recognize the limited ancillary data available and be able to integrate this information into a team-oriented approach to effective care
3) Follow patients who have been admitted to an inpatient facility
4) Provide instruction in basic preventive medicine and community health care
5) Engage in outreach clinical community visits.

System-based Learning:

1) Recognize the relationships between poverty, lifestyle, health care resources, and illness that is both common to underserved sites and unique to his/her locale.
2) Recognize the health hazards to American workers and visitors in Third World Countries.
3) Recognize and effectively navigate the interconnected relationships between family and commmunity relationships, support systems, and quality of life.

Professionalism:

1) Students must consistently demonstrate an awareness of, and respect for, cultural differences unique to their experience.

Method of evaluation: 1) The supervising physician will give direct clinical assessment of the student's performance.
2) Students will be expected to attend the majority of didactic sessions on International Health prior to departure.
3) Students will be expected to perform a needs assessment while on site and submit a grant proposal for quality improvement upon return with the help of a supervising physician.