Student Opportunities
Below are some possible student global health opportunities. Please be sure to check with your faculty mentor and McGovern for permissions to participate in any global health activities as students/residents/faculty representing McGovern.
Featured McGovern Medical School Faculty Projects for Students
Swami Vivekanada Youth Movement (SVYM)
The Virtual Global Health Interactive Cross-Training Learning Modules, which were held via Zoom, promoted medical student education on the global burden of disease and gave students a glimpse of real-world challenges faced by physicians on a global scale. Each of the lectures sought to promote medical student education and empowerment by instilling a better understanding of the health-care related challenges faced around the world. Using the virtual platform, students were able to hear from experts who face these problems in India daily. Lectures were designed to show students the burden of disease across the globe in low- and middle-income countries and outline some of the processes and unique management challenges for diseases in specific geographic locations. By enlightening the students to these challenges faced around the world, students were given critical components on the importance of inter-cultural competency training. Once the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, students will have the opportunity to travel to Mysore for away electives at SVYM. In the meantime, virtual sessions will expand to include live patient encounters and also will open to students broadly outside of the global health concentration.
Child Family Health International (CFHI) Virtual Electives
CFHI Virtual Global Health Elective brings together inter-disciplinary health professions students (medical, PA, NP, allied health, residents, fellows) to build key Global Health competencies. Given the COVID-19 pandemic international electives have been canceled for Winter/Spring 2021. We are continually assessing the feasibility of resuming place-based electives and updates will be made to our website. CFHI, in partnerships with Aperian Global and leaders across the world, are taking advanced level electives virtual. These electives will develop competencies in low-resource clinical reasoning, health systems & access, critical reflection, cross-cultural effectiveness & adaptability, continuous quality improvement (CQI) and much more. Electives are 3 or 4 weeks in duration.Read more.Please contactJennifer Ramos资助opportunities.
Nuoy Reconstructive International (RICE- Reconstructive International Cooperation Exchange)
McGovern Faculty Contact:Phuong D. Nguyen
Hanoi, Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen serves as faculty for the Center for Global Health at McGovern Medical School. As a previous refugee from Vietnam, he returns to Vietnam every March with his own NGO,Nuoy Reconstructive International以前称为大米或重建International Cooperation Exchange). We have obtained ACGME accreditation for the rotation, so our residents earn credit for their mission trip cases. Dr. Nguyen has taken students from other institutions and mentors them through research projects rooted in their experiences there.
Nuoy Reconstructive International has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital (VNCH) in Hanoi, with plans to expand our bidirectional relationship there beyond plastic surgery to include pediatrics, pediatric general surgery, and trauma.
Nuoy has a number of surgeon faculty volunteer collaborators from other institutions (University of Pittsburgh/UPMC, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest, University of Wisconsin, among others).
Dr. Nguyen also volunteer as a surgeon with Operation Smile. We encourage out trainees to apply to their Regan/Stryker fellowship to obtainfunding.
年度教育和实践重建小姐on to Hanoi, Vietnam, distributed over several hospitals throughout the city with distinct areas of focus. Trips are each Spring, in March. The mission has historically been a part of the Reconstructive International Cooperation Exchange (R.I.C.E.) which is now re-branded as Nuoy Reconstructive International. With over 20 years of mission trips, we have performed and taught complex craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, breast reconstruction and microsurgery. The goal of these trips is to build relationships and increase surgical expertise and capacity in Vietnam with our partners and hosts, as well as offering care for complex patients who have reduced access. Our partner institutions have include Vietnam National Children’s Hospital (the only tertiary children’s hospital in northern Vietnam), Viet Duc Hospital (the largest trauma hospital in northern Vietnam), Hong Ngoc Hospital, Hanoi Medical University, and Saint Paul Hospital. There are abundant opportunities for research and clinical participation dependent on experience and training level. All activity are supervised by attending board-certified faculty.
UCLA South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR)
The SAPHIR program is an NIH-funded 11-month training program in HIV prevention research in Latin America for pre- and post-doctoral physician researchers from the U.S. SAPHIR trainees participate in a combined program of didactic and practical training in one of the key areas of HIV prevention research in Lima, Peru or Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ContactDr. Lakefor questions or to express interest.
Additional Opportunities for Students
Opportunities are not school sponsored unless otherwise stated and generally from independent organizations that are unaffiliated with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston is a one-year interdisciplinary, mentored fellowship program focused on health-related community service and leadership development.Prospective Fellows should be prepared to partner with a local community agency and design a community service project that seeks to provide direct service to an underserved population. This project should focus on addressing health and/or the social determinants of health in the population served.Fellows receive a monetary stipend to fund planned project activities. Applicants are strongly encouraged to attend an information session before completing an application.
Project ECHO: Palliative Care Africa (PACA)
The Palliative Care in Africa (ECHO-PACA) is a collaborative effort between MD Anderson Cancer Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital (Brazil), Aga Khan University Hospital (Kenya), Cancer Diseases Hospital (Zambia), Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives, Highway Hospice (South Africa), Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (Ghana), Korle Bu Palliative Care Team (Ghana), Project PINK BLUE (Nigeria), National Hospital Abuja (Nigeria), and University College Hospital in Ibadan (Nigeria). The overall goal of is to use the Project ECHO model to increase the number of providers in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia with the knowledge and skills to provide quality palliative care for patients with life limiting cancer diagnoses.
Global Health Peru: Clinical Experience (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia)
The Global Health Peru Program is offered by the School of Public Health at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, the premier biomedical research and teaching university in Peru. Located in Lima, the capital and largest city in Peru, which hosts a diverse mix of ethnic and racial groups, the university provides an ideal location to experience public health firsthand. Build a strong foundation in public and global health alongside Peruvian peers, and engage with world-class researchers from a myriad of backgrounds, including women´s health, environmental health, and health systems research.
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Learning Opportunities for Medical Students
The VSLO program helps medical and public health students connect with institutions offering short-term elective opportunities that can enhance their medical education. These elective opportunities include observerships, summer research programs, clinical opportunities, away rotations, away electives, clinical rotations and visiting opportunities. Offered by participating host institutions in the U.S. and around the world, elective opportunities are available in teaching hospitals, community clinics, and urban or rural sites and are open to preclinical, clinical, or final-year students, as determined by the host institution.
Unite For Sight supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. Unite For Sight applies best practices in eye care, public health, volunteerism, and social entrepreneurship to achieve our goal of high-quality eye care for all. The programs are locally led and managed by ophthalmologists at Unite For Sight’s partner eye clinics.
- Global Impact Corps
Immersive Healthcare Delivery Experience in Ghana, Honduras, and India
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Participate in a hands-on, immersive, and unique global health experience for weeks or months in Ghana, Honduras, or India. Students and professionals support and assist local doctors as the local doctors provide care in villages, slums, and refugee camps to those who are otherwise unable to access or afford care. During the past decade, Unite For Sight has worked with our local partners to provide care to 2.7 million patients, including more than 106,000 sight-restoring surgeries. Unite For Sight’s program offers extensive learning opportunities for those interested in any aspect of public health, medicine, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Participants support and learn from the talented local doctors who are social entrepreneurs addressing complex global health issues.
- 全球卫生领导实习
Unpaid Internship in New Haven, Connecticut
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The Global Health Leadership Internship provides outstanding undergraduate, public health, medical, and graduate students, as well as recent graduates, with an opportunity to engage in high impact front-line global health delivery programs. This internship has a minimum of a full-time 4 week commitment, but at least an 8-12 week commitment is preferable. A minimum of a 6 week commitment is required during the summer months. The internship opportunity is available year-round. In this position, the Intern will work closely with Unite For Sight’s Core Management Team on global health programming. Interns work from our New Haven office that overlooks the Yale campus.