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  • AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION (AMSA) international health www.amsa.org/global/ih/

  • ST. GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    http://www.upstate.edu/currentstudents/career/career_com/Prague Selective.pdf


  • The Amsterdam International Medical Summer School. In 2008, two courses will be presented Health informatics and patient safety, from admission to discharge July 6 – 18, 2008, and Medicine: Heart failure and repair (a four week course) July 6 – August 1, 2008 http://www.amsu.edu or email: office@amsu.edu

  • University of Amsterdam Medical Informatics (MSc programme) A two year Master of Science program. http://www.mikenik.nl

  • INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES - Unite for Site Applications available for international opportunities http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer/ spring and summer dates available. Rolling application deadline.

  • CENTRO PANAMERICANO DE IDIOMAS (CPI) a Spanish immersion language school located in Costa Rica, offers specialized medical Spanish course options for the spring semester. The “Medical Spanish Course” consists of two separate sessions; the first session is scheduled at the CIP Flamingo Beach campus site and the second at the CPI Monteverde Cloud Forest campus. Each course is two weeks in length with specialized Spanish classes (5.5 hour of class per day). The sessions offered consecutively as an option of four successive weeks of medical Spanish classes. Dates are: May 19-30, 2008 (Flamingo Beach) and June 2-13, 2008 (CPI Monteverde Cloud Forest). A three-week course is scheduled for August 4-22, 2008 at CPI Heredia. For more information: www.cpi-edu.com or phone (506) 265-6306 (ext. 108), email: gruposmv@cpi-edu.com

  • Volunteer Medical Opportunity - Rural El Salvador
    Clinical, Project Management, and Public Health opportunity in a clinic and community health project in rural El Salvador
    * Contribute significantly to social justice and the health of the poor through work with a growing community-based organization
    * Employ advocacy, creativity, and clinical problem solving skills to secure basic human rights for your patients
    * Experience a wide range of clinical work and learning opportunities, especially in pediatrics and OBGYN.
    * Share clinical responsibilities with and learn from experienced locally trained health promoters
    * Learn about and use local natural medicines
    * Take part in public health campaigns and interact with a vibrant group of community health workers
    * Enjoy in-depth contact with your patients and participate in the life of the community
    * Explore local culture and experience rural Latin American life
    Location: The communities of Estancia, a rural village in a beautiful mountainous area of eastern El Salvador, in the Departamento (state) of Morazán.
    Sponsoring Institutions: You will work with the Asociación de Campesinos para el Desarrollo Humano, an up-and-coming Salvadoran grassroots NGO that is run entirely by local campesinos, as a volunteer sent by Doctors for Global Health (DGH - see www.dghonline.org).
    (Posted 9/20/07)

  • FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (FAIMER) www.faimer.org/resources/opportunities/index.html and the Global Health Education Consortium have produced an on-line resource on international medical activities at U.s. and Canadian allopathic medical schools.

  • Interhealth South America, Ecuador Beginning Spanish Speakers **Rural Track** June 24 – July 21, 2007, February 3 – March 1, 2008, March 30 – April 26, 2008 Program Prerequisites: Students must have completed at least their first year of medical school. Have an interest in taking part in international education programs in a group context. No previous study of Spanish language required. www.InterhealthSouthAmerica.net

    Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Speakers: June 24 – July 21, 2007, February 3 – March 1, 2008, March 30 – April 26, 2008. Program Prerequisites: Students must have completed at least their first year of medical school. Have an interest in taking part in international education programs in a group context. Spanish language speaking ability at an advanced beginner level or better.

  • "Spanish-Medical.com is an organization that helps premedical and medical students to participate in a medically-focused Spanish language immersion program in Latin America. The organization has partnered with three separate Spanish language schools, and have campuses in four countries: Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each location provides students with a unique opportunity to simultaneously be immersed in the rich culture of the area, participate in an intense Spanish language training program (usually 20-30 hours per week of private or small group classes), stay with a local family, and also shadow a physician for several hours each week. The organization works with medical schools to ensure that the necessary paperwork is completed in order for students to receive academic credit for their experiences." Website: www.spanish-medical.com. Contact Info: E-mail for more info: info@spanish-medical.com Phone: Telephone: (970) 412-7245 Program Coordinator: Steve Foster, e-mail: steve@spanish-medical.com."

  • Summer Courses in French Language Universite’ De Geneve http://coursete.unige.ch
    Geneva, Switzerland

  • Electives in Ghana, West Africa www.korlebuhospital.com

  • CHILD FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL - a nonprofit organization in San Francisco, California that builds and strengthens sustainable healthcare services for underserved communities worldwide. Contact this site for information about internships and nternational health electives for medical, premedical, residents and nursing students. South Africa, Ecuador, India, Mexico and Bolivia Website: http://www.cfhi.org

  • GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE: Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference "Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow", April 12-13, 2008, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008 Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
    conference.

  • HIMALAYAN HEALTH EXCHANGE 2007-08 International Health Expeditions Schedule
    Himalayan Health Exchange in conjunction with 'Central Maine Family Medicine Residency Program' will organize the following medical/dental camps in the remote regions of north India and Indo-Tibetan Borderlands in 2006-07. Participation is open to: residents, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and medical, dental, nursing and public health students from the US, UK and
    Canada. Each trip is designed to provide care to approximately 1,500 underserved patients and an opportunity for international health exposure to participants. Resident and student participation is limited to 30 on each trip. NOTE: Participants are responsible for arranging their own funding to meet expedition cost and must be willing to put in a minimum of 6-8 hours of
    clinical work, each day, for the duration of each clinical period.
    For details, e-mail:
    mailto:info@himalayanhealth.com web URL: http://www.himalayanhealth.com/
    Phone: (404) 929-9399
    Ravi I Singh
    or
    Guy Nuki MD "Guy Nuki"
    Adjunct Faculty
    Central Maine Medical Center
    Family Medicine Residency Program
    Clinical Instructor
    Boston University

  • MAP International Medical Fellowships are for students who hear a different drummer – who are considering a career in international health in the context of Christian medical missions. Since 1971, over 1,800 third and fourth year medical students, interns and residents have received travel assistance fellowships from MAP for externships in mission hospitals in developing countries. The benefits for the externs have been many and varied. The students’ reports are enthusiastic as they recount busy days in the wards and surgical theaters, as well as medical safaris into the bush or to far-off villages where people lack access to basic medical care. The hardships and frustrations, as well as the joys of medical missions are brought home to them in an eight week (or six week for interns/residents) period of service in the developing world.
    Further information as well as an online application is available from their website www.map.org. Contact MAP International for an original application and additional information at 404-880-0540 or email mstevenson@map.org


  • Heartland Alliance International Programs, a non-profit, service-based human rights organization, headquartered in Chicago, has initiated a project to improve the health status of returnees and refugees in Iraq. www.heartlandalliance.org

  • PROJECT C.U.R.E. MEDICAL TRAVEL TEAMS – http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html

  • GLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATION CONSORTIUM List of Annotated Websites is now updated and online. Check out: http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/GHonline.htm

  • VOLUNTEER IN AFRICA website at http://www.volunteeringinafrica.org

  • INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION - USA http://www.ifmsa-usa.org/

  • FIC/ELLISON OVERSEAS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM or US students in the health profession sponsored by NIH's Fogarty International Center (FIC).

  • WILDERNESS MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, WILDERNESS RESCUE & WILDERNESS SURVIVAL offered by the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, the Belize Institute for Tropical & Wilderness Medicine and Global Medical Rescue Specialties, Ltd. This exciting and unique event will be held in the beautiful tropical rainforests, rivers and caves of Belize, Central American. http://www.gmrsltd.com

  • International Health Internships and Volunteer Programs Global Service Corps Email: gsc@earthisland.org Phone: (415) 788-3666 x128 Fax: (415) 788-7324 Website: http://www.globalservicecorps.org/
    In our information age, the world’s geographical boundaries are shrinking while its population is growing. There are many challenges facing the earth?s inhabitants in the next century, and health care is a major component of building a peaceful and sustainable future for all. Global Service Corps (GSC) Health Programs in Tanzania and Thailand seek to address the challenge of health care in the developing world, while providing opportunities for students and professionals that cannot be found in the classroom, textbook or laboratory. Global Service Corps seeks students and health professionals who are ready to tackle the difficulties and challenges of human health and education in environments very different from those they are accustomed to in the West. Our primary program goals are not to impart our Western methods and customs, but rather to provide communities with appropriate services that have a real impact, and most importantly, to share the knowledge and compassion that comes through listening and learning from one another. These programs expose participants to health issues in developing countries. Both health professionals and pre-med, health and medical students are welcome to participate in the International Health Internship Program. Internships are available year-round.

  • UNITE FOR SITE: Volunteer Opportunities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe Unite for Site volunteers prescribe eyeglasses, screen for eye disease and coordinate and fund diagnosis treatment, and surgery by teachers and educate children and adults about eye health and ways to prevent blindness. For additional information contact: Jennifer Staple email: JStaple@uniteforsight.org. Website: www.uniteforsight.org

  • CHINA ELECTIVE (MDCN 2201) Western & Traditional Chinese Medicine in the People's Replubic of China. Four week elective available for fourth year medical students. Students provide their own transportation. Stipend of approximately $3,000 will help pay living expenses during the rotation. Contact Dr. John McCabe, Department of Emergency Medicine, IHP, Phone 464-9500 or email: mccabej@upstate.edu
  • MEDICAL SPANISH/INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COURSE Antigua and San Lucas Toliman, Guatamala Sponsored by the Office of International Studies and Programs, University of Nebraska Medical Center

  • MEDSPANISH PROGRAM The MedSpanish program is proud to be closely affiliated with The Pan American Collaborative Emergency Medicine PACEMD Development Program. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Contact info: Info@MedSpanish.com website: www.pacemd.org or www.MedSpanish.com

  • MEDICAL SPANISH/INTERNATIONAL HEALTH We have openings in our four-week July and August courses. See full details at http://www.unmc.edu/isp; be sure to read the Additional Information section. After checking the web site, interested applicants can contact me at sepirtle@unmc.edu if there are further questions.

  • LOS CHAVALITOS MCH CLINIC IN NICARAGUA I am the volunteer coordinator for Los Chavalitos maternal child health clinic in Managua, Nicaragua, which offers a unique summer volunteer program for first and second year medical students. Volunteers come for four or more weeks and participate in, or conduct, a public health research project or study approved by the clinic physicians. The typical study involves interaction with the residents of the communities served by the clinic. There is clinical exposure with this elective, but the primary focus is non-clinical. Students live with Nicaraguan families and must be comfortably conversant in Spanish. For additional information about the programs listed above, contact: Sara E. Pirtle, MBA, Coordinator, International Studies & Programs, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5735, 402 559 2924, 402 559 2923 (fax) sepirtle@unmc.edu, http://www.unmc.edu/isp

  • SERVICE LEARNING AND COMMUNITY RESEARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA AND MEXICO Both programs focus on health and education, support group projects, mental health projects, education for children and adolescents, women's health issues, nutrition and other topics and services identified by the local community that affect their well being. IASE participants may choose Mexico program or South Africa program. For information visit www.iaseco.org or e-mail at info@iaseco.com, phone 415-982-1296.

  • DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. The directory is published as a service to U.S. students interested in arranging overseas internships in reproductive health, women's health and family planning services. RHI Directory is unique from other directories in that it specifically targets reproductive health, and family planning services.

  • INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE IN SERVICE AND EDUCATION, a non-profit public benefit corporation in San Francisco, CA promotes health and education in underserved communities and provides service learning opportunities abroad for students to reflect on international moral responsibility.

  • SWAZILAND ELECTIVE an elective coordinated by a member of the Dept. of Family Medicine of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA for students and residents interested in providing service - and learning in that process - a variety of settings in the Kingdom of Swaziland, South Africa. Offered to English speaking medical students from within and beyond the US who will be final year students at the time of participating in the elective.

  • The International Health Central American Institute Foundation invites you to visit their new IHCAI web page which they have just recently re-launched. Their website address is: www.ihcai.org. You can download the PDF file containing the courses and rotations prospectus. They also have an electronic registration form and several Scholarships available for students from different schools and one for one student from any School IHMEC institutional member. In the website, you will be able to find out more about other programs, however, not all the information is in there yet.

  • AWHS OVERSEAS ASSISTANCE GRANT - American Medical Women's Association available to a National AMWA student member completing their 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of accredited US allopathic or osteopathic medical stchool. Program must be sponsored by the school another school or an outside agency. The grant will provide assistance with transportation costs up to $1500 connected with pursuing medical studies in an off-campus setting benefiting the medically underserved. For additional information and an application, contact Marie Glanz: mglanz@amwa-doc.org

  • AFRICA INLAND MISSION Medical Work in Kenya

  • INTERHEALTH SOUTH AMERICA, ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA (For more information contact: Don Wedemeyer, MD, Marta Alarcon, MD, Interhealth South America, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., USF 30404, Tampa, FL 33620, 813-935-3480, dwedemeyer@pol.net)

  • INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING: International Medical Rotations: Central America, Mexico, Trinidad, Tanzania. Four week field experience in Medical/Dental/Veterinary clinical work. Teams are scheduled throughout the year, see www.ISLonline.org This team program presents a unique and exciting opportunity for students to experience medical/dental/veterinary clinical work first hand in the challenging context of both "outback" and urban Central American, Mexico, Caribbean Basin and Tanzania. You may be traveling by 4x4s, motorized river canoes, horseback (optional), bus, cab and foot. Experience the irony of profound natural beauty amidst profound poverty and make a difference! Teams of ten to fourteen students are accompanied by professional medical staff in addition to resident medical staff at most locations. Contact Vanessa Mendoza info@ISLonline.org or 361-937-2878.

FUNDING FOR INTERNATIONAL ELECTIVES

SUNY UPSTATE FACULTY - INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS

  • Dr. Jerrold Abraham (abrahamj@upstate.edu),
    Department of Pathology
    Japan, Brazil, London, Belgium, Scotland, Israel, Canada
  • Dr. H. Hesham A-Kadar Hassan (heshamh@aol.com)
    Department of Gastroenterology & Nutrition
    Egypt
  • Dr. Scott Tatum (Tatums@upstate.edu)
    Plastic Surgery
    Germany, China, Russia, Croatia
    Involved with Face-to-Face, a program similar to Operation Smile with opportunities in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Dr. Gary G. Wang (Wangg@upstate.edu)
    Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    China
  • Dr. Ester Steinberg (esteinburg@clarityconnect.com)
    Department of Family Practice
    Mexico

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