Abstract

Global is Local: Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs’ Training on the Care of Immigrants, Migrants, Torture Survivors, Asylees and Refugees (IMTARs)

Highlights

  • Anemia is a significant wide spread public health threat especially among the adolescent girls who are more vulnerable towards low level of hemoglobin of low and middle income countries (LMICs)

  • We investigated the prevalence of anemia among the adolescent girls (10-19 years) in Bangladesh and its socio-demographics distribution

  • Overall, 52.8% girls were suffering from any form of anemia while 47.3% were mildly and 5.4% were moderately (Hb:7-9.9g/dl) anemic while only 0.15% were severely anemic

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Summary

Background

The delivery of healthcare services in remote settings in low and middle income nations remains a significant challenge on a global scale. Telemedicine offers a means to provide point of care services via global E-visits in capacity-constrained situations. We posit that key elements of a telemedicine comprise an F-T-E approach that include: 1) Facility for care delivery in remote settings; 2) Technology for connectivity and managing the clinical encounter, and 3) Expertise in clinical medicine

Methods
Designing a Global Health Curriculum in a Military Family Medicine Residency
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