Main description:

This book presents best practices for ethical and safe international health elective experiences for trainees and the educational competencies and evaluation techniques that make them valuable. It includes commentaries, discussions and descriptions of new global health education guidelines, reviews of the literature, as well as research.

Uniquely, it will include ground-breaking research on perspectives of partners in the Global South whose voices are often unheard, student perspectives and critical discussions of the historical foundations and power dynamics inherent in international medical work.

Global Health Experiential Education is a timely book that will be of interest to academic directors of global health programmes and anyone involved in training and international exchanges across North America.

Contents:

Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, List of contributors Chapter 1. Introduction Part I Pedagogies Chapter 2. Global health pedagogy: the art and science of teaching global health Chapter 3. Objectives and competencies of international electives for medical trainees Chapter 4. Challenging paradigms of global health education: examining critiques of competency-based education Chapter 5. Engendering interprofessionalism in global health education Chapter 6. Best practices in global health graduate and post graduate medical education Chapter 7. A profile of global health curricula at Canadian medical schools Chapter 8. A profile of international electives programming at Canadian medical schools Chapter 9. Pre-departure training: approaches and best practices Chapter 10. Understanding service-learning basics and best practices Chapter 11. Fair trade learning Part II. Ethics Chapter 12. Clear as mud: power dynamics in global health volunteerism Chapter 13. Existing and emerging ethical standards in global health education Chapter 14. Ethical challenges in student experiences of global health research Chapter 15. Why matters: motivations in global health training Chapter 16. From Hubris to humility: towards an appreciation of the philosophy of life in the host country Chapter 17. How social accountability in medical education can contribute to global health Chapter 18. A new form of neocolonialism? International health partnerships, missions, experiences, research and electives Part III. Host perspectives Chapter 19. Host experience: a brief survey of the literature Chapter 20. Voices from the host: findings from interviews at institutions hosting Canadian medical trainees in fourteen countries from the Global South Chapter 21. Structures and functions of international volunteer programs: my experience from the field Chapter 22. Critically engaging host communities' praise for foreign healthcare volunteers: lessons from Nicaragua Chapter 23. reflections on a decade of hosting international medical trainees in Uganda Part IV. Contemporary conversations Chapter 24. Global health job opportunities in international settings Chapter 25. Standardizing medical education's approach to global health: are we moving forward? Chapter 26. Graduate global health practicums: understanding the implications and opportunities Chapter 27. Short term experiences in global health in the digital world: blogs, social media, and more Chapter 28. Women's Representation and Leadership in Global Health Chapter 29. Global LGBT health: current challenges, opportunities, and tools for global health practitioners and educators Chapter 30. Striving for reciprocity in electives Part V. Case studies Chapter 31. Making the Links: helping medical students prepare for global health careers Chapter 32. Postgraduate medical education in global health: the Yale experience Chapter 33. By the south for the south: the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba Chapter 34. Experience of developing a model for responsible electives; the Medicine in Malawi Programme (MIMP) Chapter 35. Unite For Sight Chapter 36. Foundation for sustainable development: going beyond do no harm to create mutual benefit Chapter 37. CUGH university consortia and the development of educational standards in global health