Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Preparing for an International Health Elective: Exploring Global Health, Ethics and Safety
City St George's, University of London (formerly St George's) and King's College London
This online course looked at how to plan and prepare for undertaking an international health elective. The course covered topics such as ethics and professionalism, staying safe and managing risk, the social determinants of global health, and cultural differences in global health systems.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Carwyn Rhys Hooper
Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law
City St George's, University of London (formerly St George's)
Dr Paula Baraitser
Senior Lecturer, King’s Centre for Global Health
King's College London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate awareness of professional guidance on digital professionalism and be able to apply this to communications on electives.
- Identify clinical procedures that it will be appropriate for you to undertake on your elective and those that are not.
- Identify ethical issues that you are likely to encounter on your electives and adopt a structured approach to developing a response.
- Recognise the importance of linguistic barriers on elective experiences and take steps to mitigate these.
- Discuss from the global perspective the determinants of health and disease and variations in healthcare delivery and medical practice.
- Identify the occupational health risks associated with planned electives, including the risk of body fluid exposure, and identify strategies to mitigate these risks.
- Recognise that health systems are structured and function differently across the globe.
- Discuss the essential components of a health system using the World Health Organisation (WHO) model.
- Discuss the role of voluntourism in relation to international health electives.
- Understand the challenges of working across professional cultures.
Syllabus
- Understanding digital professionalism
- Working beyond competence
- Bringing gifts and dealing with scarcity
- The impact of language barriers
- Global Health and the Social Determinants of Health
- Staying safe: Managing risk inside and outside the clinical environment
- Health infrastructures and systems
- Voluntourism
- Experiencing different professional cultures
Issued on 7th June 2019
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