ELECT EGLOA2 - Global Health Health - Honduras
Director(s): Elective Director: Michael B. Harper, MD, MBA; Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
Co-director: Don Givler, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Duration: 2 weeks
Location: Honduras
Maximum Number of Students: 10
Elective Offered During Blocks: 10B
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Goals:
To provide medical training in global health for students at LSU Health Shreveport. To sharpen participants’ interviewing and physical exam skills, and their understanding of cost-constrained care, while nurturing cultural sensitivity and demonstrating the importance of public health. To foster health career development for LSU Health students interested in global health and the care of underserved populations in the US. To encourage ongoing collaboration between students and a wide array of health professionals working to improve global health through education, research, and service.
Objectives:
Students will enhance their medical history and physical examination skills as the provider of first contact for 10-20 patients a day under the supervision of LSU Health faculty. Minimum contact hours per week: 30.
Students will gain skills in the use of a medical translator for gathering historical information and for communicating with patients who speak a different language.
Students will enhance their clinical decision making skills by learning to effectively manage patients with minimal reliance on expensive technology and pharmaceuticals commonly used in the teaching hospital.
Students will develop greater cultural sensitivity, and an appreciation of diverse customs and life experiences.
Students will observe and discuss the interrelationship between health and infrastructure, culture, politics, and economic stability in Honduras.
Students will be able to outline common hazards to international travel, and will strictly follow established safety guidelines.
Students will gain knowledge and skills in the identification and management of common tropical diseases.
Students will demonstrate their ability to find, organize, and effectively present medical information on a selected topic to their colleagues.
Resources for Learning:
Participating faculty
Hands-on experience
Computer Assisted Instruction: Medical Informatics
Directed readings including a manual for medical Spanish
Pass/Fail
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