Global Health

 

Med-Peds residency at UM/JMH is an international medicine experience, which starts with the patients that we treat daily in our combined continuity clinic and at Jackson (the public hospital that is the primary medical home to uninsured/undocumented Miami residents and a referral center for patients from across Latin America and the Caribbean).  Beyond our daily clinical practice, the majority of residents in our Med-Peds program take advantage of an opportunity that is truly unique to UM/JMH Residents: the option to take a month-long international away elective in each year beyond internship, with full-salary and partial funding! 

 

Global Health Residents

At the end of Intern year one interested resident from each class is chosen as the global health representative for the class.  These residents are responsible for the organization of global health related activities including facilitation of the journal club.  Additionally, the global health resident is funded to pursue one of the following Global Health Tracks:

Track 1: Tropical Medicine Certification Pathway

  • For those residents interested in formal tropical medicine training

  • Scholarship toward online Global Health course

  • Scholarship toward in-person Microbiology course at University of Minnesota (including course fee but not room/board or flight)

  • Upon completion of this course-work, resident eligible to take the TropMed Certification Exam

  • 3 international electives (as open to all residents)

Track 2: Humanitarian / Disaster Response Certification Pathway

  • For those residents interested in formal disaster relief training

  • Scholarship towards online Humanitarian / Disaster Response course

  • Scholarship toward in-person Disaster Response Simulation course at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (including course fee and room/board but not flight)

  • 3 international electives (as open to all residents)

Track 3: International Elective Pathway

Current Global Health Residents

          PGY-4 Stephanie Cedeño                                      PGY-3 Vidiya Sathananthan PGY-2 Casey Mohrien

 

International Sites

Med-Peds residents routinely participate in international electives across multiple continents, with some of the most-frequented sites located in Haiti, Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica and Rwanda.  Residents are welcome to travel to a GME pre-approved clinical site or to create a new partnership with a clinic or hospital in any country.

International Sites visited by Med-Peds residents in the past few years:

  • Haiti, Port-au-Prince: L’Hospital Bernard Mevs

  • Haiti, Saint-Marc: L’Hospital Saint Nicolas

  • Haiti, Leogane: L’Hospital Sainte Croix

  • Colombia, Cali: Hospital Universidad del Valle

  • Rwanda, Nyabihu: Shyira District Hospital

  • Honduras, Roatan: Clinica Esperanza

  • Jamaica, Ocho Rios: St. Mary’s Parrish-Issa Trust

  • Cambodia, Siem Reap: Angkor Hospital for Children

  • Zambia, Lusaka: Tiny Tim and Friends

  • Liberia, Monrovia: Family Health Center and ELWA Hospital

  • Uganda, Gulu: St Mary Lacor Hospital

  • Khartoum, Sudan: Soba University Hospital

  • Mexico, Tuxtla Gutierrez: Hospital Chiapas Nos Une Dr. Jesus Gilberto Gomez Maza

Other pre-approved international sites:

  • Peru, Lima: Cayetano Heredia

  • India, Bangalore: St. John’s Medical College

  • Sao Paulo, Brazil: University of Sao Paulo

  • Kenya, Migori: Family AIDs Care and Education Services

  • Costa Rica, San Jose: IHCAI

 

Curriculum

UM/JMH Med-Peds boasts leadership dedicated to global health, and a resident-driven global health curriculum that facilitates acquisition of foundational knowledge through online modules and further growth, reflection and internalization through monthly journal club discussions, periodic case conferences, an annual global health ethics seminar and quarterly global health grand rounds presentations. All residents who take international electives must complete online training in basic humanitarian practice, which is a course purchased by the program.

Journal Club:

Global Health Journal Club is a monthly gathering of Med-Peds and categorical residents for discussion of key topics in global health. Check out the articles that we have recently reviewed:

  • Aasith Paz: COVID impact on HIV/TB/Malaria

  • Shreena Desai: Climate Change & Global Health

  • Steph Ross: Global Use of Ivermectin for COVID

  • Dana Hassneiah: Decolonizing Global Health

  • Dana Hassneiah & Lily Ostrer: Health Crisis in Palestine

  • Steph Ross: Global Health Ethics

  • Gabriela Moraru: Economic Impacts of COVID on Education

  • Erica Graf: Global issues in COVID19 vaccine access

Prior Journal Clubs:

  • Zika Virus: Zika Virus in the Americas-Yet Another Arbovirus Threat (3/3/2016)

  • Tuberculosis: A Trial of Early Antiretrovirals and Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Africa (4/28/2016)

  • Malnutrition, positive deviance: The positive deviance/hearth approach to improving child nutrition; UN strategies to prevent and treat malnutrition; WHO management of children with severe infection or malnutrition (5/24/2016)

  • Emergency and disaster medicine: Living in Emergency (film about MSF) (6/9/2016)

  • Refugees in US: Environmental, Nutrition and Health Issues in a US Refugee Resettlement Community (6/29/2016)

  • Conditional cash transfers: Conditional Cash Transfers for Improving Uptake of Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (7/20/2016)

  • Global Health Law: Global Health and the Law (8/18/16)

  • UN and the cholera epidemic in Haiti: Mortality Rates during Cholera Epidemic, Haiti, 2010–2011 (9/15/2016)

  • Global Heath Equity: Achieving equity in global health (10/20/16)

  • Indigenous Health: Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact in the Americas (12/14/16)

  • Epidemics: The global polio eradication initiative. Lessons learned and prospects for success (3/22/2017)

  • Gun Violence: Cure violence: a public health model to reduce gun violence (4/20/2017)

  • Sexual Violence: Worldwide prevalence of non-partner sexual violence: a systematic review (6/2/2017)

  • Major Players in Global Health, a lecture by Dr. Eyssallenne (7/20/2017)

  • Nutrition: Improving food environments and tackling obesity: A realist systematic review of the policy success of regulatory interventions targeting population nutrition (8/17/2017)

  • Being Ethical in an Unethical World: Sam Dubal. Renouncing Paul Farmer: A Desperate Plea for Radical Political Medicine (9/20/2017)

  • War! The Shadow Doctors. The underground race to spread medical knowledge as the Syrian regime erases it (11/9/2017)

  • Refugee Health: Addressing refugee health through evidence-based policies: a case study (2/1/2018)

  • Noncommunicable Diseases — Cancer health disparities in Little Haiti and Big Haiti 1. Pairing community health workers with HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer prevention in rural Haiti. 2. Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening Among Haitian Immigrant Women in Little Haiti, Miami. (5/24/2018).

  • Palestine Social Medicine Primer — webinar lead by Dr. Bram Wispelwey, a provider for Palestinian refugees in Bethlehem, West Bank (5/30/2018)

Updated 7/16/23