EqualHealth’s visiting professor program: providing continuing medical education and professional development opportunities for haitian health professionals

E Felker-Kantor,M Dilorenzo,E Larson,M Nadas

doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.061

Abstract

EqualHealth’s visiting professor program: providing continuing medical education and professional development opportunities for haitian health professionals

Highlights

The Center for Global Education Initiatives (CGEI) at the University of Maryland Baltimore’s (UMB), formerly the Global Health Resource Center, was established in 2005 under the NIH Fogarty Center’s “Framework Program for Global Health” grant program to build interprofessional global health capacity on graduate campuses
Annals of Global Health, VOL. 82, NO. 3, 2016 M a y eJ u n e 2 0 1 6 : 3 3 9 – 3 7 4 in healthcare, medical education, and learning styles for acquiring knowledge. This exchange demonstrated that a cross cultural and neer peer teaching environment can be an effective method of medical student-centered development in global health
Structure/Method/Design: CGEI has been remarkably successful in creating a platform for faculty and students to interact and develop multidisciplinary research themes and training programs in global health through three ways: 1) an interprofessional experiential learning program, 2) an active global health interprofessional faculty council (GHIC) that convenes monthly to share and advance coordinated campus efforts, and 3) a global health interprofessional student council

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Introduction

The Center for Global Education Initiatives (CGEI) at the University of Maryland Baltimore’s (UMB), formerly the Global Health Resource Center, was established in 2005 under the NIH Fogarty Center’s “Framework Program for Global Health” grant program to build interprofessional global health capacity on graduate campuses. This exchange demonstrated that a cross cultural and neer peer teaching environment can be an effective method of medical student-centered development in global health. Making a global health home for faculty and students on an interprofessional campus: the example of university of maryland baltimore’s center for global education initiatives

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