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AND PROGRAMS
There are several non-governmental organizations
(NGOS), organized medical delegations, KSOM alumni and faculty,
and regional medical institutions that welcome medical student
participation in their programs abroad. The best place to
begin is with yourself. Really think about which region of
the world you want to experience and the type of field knowledge
you would like to gain.
Global Health International Experience Database »
Below is just a partial list of programs
for your consideration. We also strongly recommend that you
join the International Medicine Student Interest Group (IMSIG)
to start talking with your classmates about various opportunities
and search the Internet for endless options.
NICARAGUA
Each year a group of first year medical students visit Nicaragua for
a tour of the country’s health care system. This trip traditionally
occurs during spring break, for a 7-9 day trip.
Nicaragua PPT
AOET (AIDS ORPHANS EDUCATION TRUST) - UGANDA
Students can visit this site for an intimate international experience on
the African continent. You will be immersed in a community and work in the
local health clinic, go to the countryside with a mobile clinic, and work with
the children of AOET. For additional information see the link below or contact
Alejandro Sanchez, MD.
AOET Website
AOET PPT
CHINA
Based at the Jiansu Provincial Hospital, students rotated through cardiology, general surgery,
and plastic surgery, getting the opportunity to scrub in and work alongside the surgeons as well
as help with physical examination of patients. The students were introduced to various aspects of
their research on parasite research including techniques such as flow cytometry.
China PPT
PERU
A registered Peruvian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) providing basic health and dental care
to thousands of Peru's poorest people.
Peru PPT
INDIA
Students traveled to the JJM Medical College in India to learn about clinical practice and the
delivery of healthcare in India. India is a developing country comprising one sixth of the world’s
population which is currently undergoing a major economic boom, also compromising such issues as infectious tropical disease, poverty and widening socioeconomic disparity, overpopulation, traditional cultural attitudes, congenital disease, and a shifting epidemiology toward chronic illnesses.
INDIA PPT
INDIA – Bidad
Shree Bidada Sarvodaya Trust is a charitable non-profit organization.The organization is committed to render medical and surgical treatment to patients of all ages, caste & race. The trust is well known for the medical camp it organizes every January in village Bidada, Kutch, India. At the January camp patients from over 1200 villages are seen. Around 120 doctors and volunteers from the US as well as 200 from Mumbai treat more than 20,000 patients during this camp. Over 20 different medical and surgical specialty are covered during the camp.
INDIA Bidada PPT
http://www.bidada.com/
GUATEMALA
Students traveled to the Hospital Nacional Regional de Escuintla in Guatemala. The publicly funded hospital
is 100% free for patients, and is a training center for residents who have gone to medical school in Cuba. Students participated in ER and HIV Vertical Transmission experiences.
Guatemala PPT
GHANA
USC students have been going to this location for the past few years through our
Emergency Medicine department and their faculty. Please visit the University of
Ghana Medical School to learn more or contact prior students that have gone in the
past. This weblink also is access to the application form that is required and other
important information (visa and passport information). You may also wish to look up
information on the Korle Bu teaching hospital.
This rotation is only open to 3rd and 4th year medical students. If planning on participating,
you may wish to speak with your faculty advisor for rotation approval and make an appointment
with the student health center for appropriate pre travel advice. Plan ahead, as this is a
popular rotation with our students and other students in the world.
Global Outreach, Shirati Health Education Development Foundation
-Tanzania
Dr. Dennis Mull, Department of Family Medicine
Click here for video
Shirati Health Education Development Foundation Website
Swaziland-Project Africa Global, Inc.
Please contact the organization in advance to join their annual team to Swaziland. This experience is
limited to 3rd and 4th year students. See the below links for some general information and a prior student’s experience.
Project Africa Global
Self-Title of Experience: Project Africa Global:
Medical and Humanitarian Mission to Swaziland
Name: Kenneth Yu
E-mail address:
Location: Swaziland
Aguascalientes Medical School
Link To Aguascalientes
Global
Health at USC »
LAC-USC Department of Emergency Medicine
Link To Dept of Emergency Medicine
USC Physician Assistant's International Interest Group
EL Salvador trip
Cal-Tech International Interest Group
China
Seven Cities Study (CSCS) »
Healing Hearts Across Border – Tijuana, Mexico
Dr. John Rodarte, MD – KSOM Alumni
Healing Hearts
Across Borders
International
Medicine Student Interest Group (IMSIG) - Student Experience
Presentations – 2005 - 2006
Self-Title of Experience: - Comparative Health Systems Study Tour in Nicaragua
Name: Haig Aharonian, Yekaterina Bakhta, Russell Buhr1, Shannon Connolly, Erik Curtis, Jonathan Fleurat, Ethel Galo, Melyssa Johnson, Christina Mather,Vinod Pradeep, Andrew Shubov
E-mail address:
Location: Nicaragua
Self-Title of Experience: Roatán Volunteer Pediatric Clinic
Name: Natalie Ramos
E-mail address: nramos@stanfordalumni.org
Location: Roatán, Honduras
Self-Title of Experience: Mae Tao Clinic
Name: Andrew Shubov
E-mail address: shubov@gmail.com
Location: Burma
Self-Title of Experience: International Medicine, Uganda
Name: Alejandro Sanchez
E-mail address:
Location: Uganda
Self-Title of Experience: Access
to Healthcare in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Name: Meena Rao, Sally Kamal, Neda Ghaffari,
Harpreet Singh
E-mail address: meenarao@usc.edu
Location: Buenos Aires, AR
Self-Title of Experience: Clinical
Medicine in Quito
Name: Adrian Castro, MS II
E-mail address: adrianca@usc.edu
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Self-Title of Experience: Traditional
Himalayan Medicine Rotation
Name: Sid Anand, MS II
E-mail address: sidharta@usc.edu
Location: Northern India and Himalaya
Self-Title of Experience: Nicaragua
Spanish Schoo
Name: Aaron Spicer, MS II
E-mail address: aaronspi@usc.edu
Location: Leon, Granada, and San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
Self-Title of Experience: Learning
Spanish and Working in a Clinical in Nicaraguan beach tow
Name: Katherine Talbert, MS II
E-mail address: ktalbert@usc.edu
Location: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua (& Roatan, Honduras)
Self-Title of Experience: Physician's
assistant at a remote Kenyan Hospital
Name: Scott Somers, MS I
E-mail address: somers@usc.edu
Location: Up in the mountains near the rift valley in Kenya,
East Africa
Self-Title of Experience: Fulbright
scholarship to Uganda
Name: Sulggi Lee, MS III
E-mail address: sulggile@usc.edu
Location: Uganda
Self-Title of Experience: Vacation
for fun in Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica (2005), Southeast
Asia (2000,2003)
Name: Marlowe Majoewsky, MS I
E-mail address: majoewsk@usc.edu
Location: Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica (a little bit), Thailand,
Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.
Self-Title of Experience: La
Hermandad Educativa
Name: Ann Finkelstein, MS II
E-mail address: afinkels@usc.edu
Location: Quetzaltenango and Fatima, Guatemala
Self-Title of Experience: SALUD
program in Ecuador
Name: Rian Melissa Hasson, MS II
E-mail address: hasson@usc.edu
Location: Ecuador
Self-Title of Experience: Intern
at the World Health Organization
Name: Sharel Ongchin, MS II
E-mail address: ongchin@usc.edu
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Self-Title of Experience: Medical
Spanish program in Cusco, Peru
Name: Rey Hamidi, MS II
E-mail address:rhamidi@usc.edu
Location: Cusco, Peru
Self-Title of Experience: Humanitarian
Medical Outreach Summer Service Trip to East Africa
Name: Trevor Crowell, MS II
E-mail address: tcrowell@usc.edu
Location: Bungoma, Kenya; Jinja, Uganda
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