How to Find and Select an International Medical Elective

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How to Find and Select an InternationalMedical
Elective

• Stephen A. Huffman, MD

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Steve Huffman, MD

• 862 Buckeye Court
• Tipp City, Ohio 45371
• Email shuffman39_at_hotmail.com
• Phone [phone]

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Places I have practiced

• San Juan Medical Clinic, Dominican Republic
• Spanishtown Hospital, Jamaica
• Regency Rainbow, Regency Cruise Line, Inside
  Passage, Alaska/Canada
• St. Judes Hospital, St. Lucia, West Indies
• Tully Hospital, Queensland, Australia

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Places I have practiced

• Chubu Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, Visiting
  Professor
• Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital, St. Croix, US Virgin
  Island
• St. Elizabeth/ St. Martin de Porre Hospital,
  Cameron Africa
• King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Hamilton,
  Bermuda

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Places I have practiced

• University of Guadalaraja School of Medicine -
  Visiting Professor
• Cat Cay Island, Bahamas Private Island Physician
• Where to next
• Roy L. Schneider Hospital St. Thomas
• St. Georges Medical School, Grenada

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Questions to Answer

• Who?
• How?
• When?

• Why?
• What?
• Where?

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Who/When?

• Residents/Students
• First year
• Second Year
• Third Year
• Fourth Year
• Resident

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What is the Big M Today?

• Mission
• Money
• Me

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Why?

• Prepare for service after Medical
  School/Residency
• Educational
• Service to others
• Evangelistic
• Change of life style
• Adventure
• Find ones self
• See the world

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Why?

• Great Experience no Residents or other medical
  students
• Tropical Medicine
• Different presentations of disease states
• Different medical environment/culture

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Web Sites

• www.cfhi.org
• Child Family Health International
• www.imva.org
• International Medical Volunteer Association
• www.amsa.org
• American Medical Student Association
• www.ifmsa.org www.ifmsa-usa.org
• International Federation of Medical Student
  Associations
• www.ihmec.org
• International Health Medical Education Consortium
• www.who.int
• World Health Organization

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Web Sites

• www.medicstravel.co.uk
• Medics Travel
• www.ifmsa-usa.org
• International Federation of Medical Students
  Association
• www.vanterventures.com
• Disney Cruise Ship Physician
• www.astmh.org
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• www. Family.mcw.edu/belize
• University of Wisconsin- Department of Family
  Practice
• www.uchsc.edu/international
• University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Where?

• Third World
• Under-served areas
• Caribbean/Latin America
• Africa, Eastern Europe
• Cruise Ship/ Resort Medicine
• Public Health Service
• Indian Health Service

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Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didnt do than by
the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines,
sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade
winds in your sails.

• Mark Twain

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International Health in the Developing World
Clinical and Community Care

• University of Arizona summer course
• 2 weeks every summer, optional 2 weeks abroad
• Contact The University of Arizona, College of
  Medicine
• Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
• PO Box 245052
• Tucson, AZ 85724
• www.globalhealth.arizona.edu

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What?

• Primary Care
• Surgical
• Research

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Elective Credit

• Research what department will give you credit for
  your experience at your school
• Requirements
• Goals
• Objective
• Research
• Case Studies
• Written Report
• Presentation

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Additional Reading

• Jesus, MD A Doctor Examines the Great Physician
  by David Stevens, 2001
• JAMA, August 7, 2002, Vol 288, No. 5 pages
  559-565
• Where There is No Doctor by Dr. David Werner,
  1992

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Funding

• www.amsa.org/resource/amsarc/ creative/creative.cf
  m
• www.depts.washington.edu/ihg
• www.map.org
• Local church
• Medical School Organizations
• School Loans

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What? Things to Consider

• Credit from Medical School/Residency
• Visa
• Travel Plans
• Immunizations/Malaria prophylactic
• Personal/Family Safety/Political Situation

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What? Things to Consider

• Accommodations
• Cost/Fund Raising
• Language
• Duty/Responsibility
• Communications
• Insurance
• Experience of Others

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Unique Requirements

• Singapore - record temperature
• Bermuda nose culture for MSRSA
• South Africa Student Visa 250US
• Jamaica Gov. Employee Preceptor
• Australia - Immunizations

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International Residency Programs

• Family Practice
• University of Cincinnati
• Case Western Reserve/University Hospitals
• Marshall University School of Medicine
• University of Arizona
• Baylor College of Medicine
• St. Josephs Family Prac. Residency, South Bend,
  Indiana

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International Residency Programs

• Emergency Medicine
• Brown University
• John Hopkins University
• Loma Linda University
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Medical College of Georgia

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International Residency Programs

• Internal Medicine
• Brown University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Duke University
• Indiana University
• Yale Internal Medicine/Primary Care Medicine
• Tulane University

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International Residency Programs

• Pediatrics
• Case Western Reserve University

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• It is good plan, every now and then, to go away
  and have a little relaxation for when you come
  back to work your judgment will be surer since
  to remain constantly at work will cause you to
  lose the power of judgment.

Leonardo da Vinci
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International Medical Opportunity Time Sheet

• One to three year before departure
• Letters of inquire for need or current program in
  place to area, country, or organization you are
  interested in
• Identify and engage funding sources
• Identify available time and duration

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International Medical Opportunity Time Sheet

• 8 months before departure
• Learn about medical needs, specific disease
  processes
• Identify and start to collect needed medical and
  pharmaceutical supplies
• Clearance for customs by host for supplies
• Apply for CME/CUE
• Approval from appropriate person at the medical
  school

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International Medical Opportunity Time Sheet

• 6 months before departure
• Identify housing, food services, and travel
  arrangements
• Immunizations including HBV, HAV, Tetanus, MMR,
  Polio, country specific
• Passport and Visa application

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International Medical Opportunity Time Sheet

• 3 months before departure
• Fundraiser
• Language skills
• Contingency plan for last minute changes
• Identify specific role, daily schedule

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International Medical Opportunity Time Sheet

• 2 weeks before departure
• Confirm all travel plans, accommodations, in
  country travel
• Final packing
• Give family/friends communication information
• Start malaria prophylactic if needed

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International Medical Opportunity Time Sheet

• One month after return
• Confirm all necessary requirements for credit
• Write thank you and follow up letters to your
  host
• Thank you letter and a note outlining your trip
  to the medical school and to everyone that
  donated supplies, money, or assisted in any way
• Start making plan for next trip

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Questions

• Steve Huffman, MD
• 862 Buckeye Court
• Tipp City, Ohio 45371
• Ph. 937-667-1877
• Email shuffman39_at_hotmail.com

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