FM 5505 - FAMILY MEDICINE IN HONDURAS

Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
This is a four week elective to expose the student to a global health experience in a community based project working with shoulder to shoulder San Jose in Honduras. It will consist of 2 weeks in Pittsburgh and 2 weeks in San Jose del Negrito, Honduras, under the direction of shoulder to shoulder Pittsburgh and the UPMC family medicine global health (GH) team. In select situations a student with fluency in Spanish and prior international travel experience may construct a four week rotation entirely in Honduras. Each student will have an opportunity to practice clinical medicine and preventative care in a low resource setting in rural Honduras. There will be structured educational objectives in public health, tropical medicine and community oriented primary care. The team traveling to San Jose will work with the local nurse and physician in the local clinic setting as well as the various community projects. Each student will be active not only in the clinic setting but in the wider community as the project focuses on community development and community health.
Academic Career: Medical School
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: H/HS/S/LS/U
Course Attributes: School of Medicine Year 4

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