Global Health

Classes

GLB 4001: Global Health Medicine Elective

Global Health Medicine provides opportunities for medical students to better understand the depth, breadth, and interdisciplinary nature of global health challenges. 

GLB 4110: Global Health Family Medicine Elective

International clerkship focused on providing healthcare to vulnerable populations worldwide. Careful attention may be given to the use of resources, knowledge, and experience of diverse societies to address health challenges as well as combining population-based health promotion and disease prevention with individual-led care.

GLB 4120: Global Health Internal Medicine Elective

Students can supplement their domestic clerkship experiences by traveling abroad. Opportunities to strengthen diagnostic skills, shift dependency on diagnostic tests, build a further sense of global health needs, provide a service to a community in need, and address the challenges of healthcare within an ethnically and culturally diverse area may occur when focusing on global health. 

GLB 4140: Global Health Pediatric Elective

International clerkship focused on healthcare for children from birth through adolescence. Students may experience how diverse socio-cultural determinants affect healthcare and diseases in children that are uncommon in resource-rich areas.

GLB 4160: Global Health Surgery Elective

Surgery has not always been considered a global health priority, but the global health community has recently recognized that surgical conditions form a significant burden of disease and have cost-effective interventions. Students may experience/discuss first-hand the global burden of surgical disease, surgery in resource-poor settings, surgical workforce and task shifting, as well as the ethics of surgical care in resource-poor settings. 

GLB 5031: Global Medicine I

The main focus of this track is for our students to develop the skills necessary to be successful physicians and to be able to better serve their patients both internationally and here in the US.   The population here is the US continues to increase in cultural and socioeconomic diversity with a responding need for appropriate provision of healthcare services.  Regardless of the student’s chosen specialty in medicine, whether students work here or overseas, they must have a better understanding of how their patient’s health is affected by not only where they live, but also factors such as socioeconomic status, type of government and healthcare system available to them, and culture.  This track consisting of 3 semesters will culminate in over 75+ hours of classroom experiences and a required international clinical experience(s) over a span of 3.5 years.  

Specifically, this course is the first of 3 courses which will introduce the students to the many facets and current events associated with Global Medicine from a Public Health perspective.  The semester will consist of 30 plus hours of coursework, graded Honors/Pass/Fail for a total of 2 credits. Students are also expected to work collaboratively and actively participate as both learners and educators through class discussions and semester projects.

GLB 5032: Global Medicine II

The main focus of this track is for our students to develop the skills necessary to be successful physicians and to be able to better serve their patients both internationally and here in the US.   The population here is the US continues to increase in cultural and socioeconomic diversity with a responding need for appropriate provision of healthcare services.  Regardless of the student’s chosen specialty in medicine, whether students work here or overseas, they must have a better understanding of how their patient’s health is affected by not only where they live, but also factors such as socioeconomic status, type of government and healthcare system available to them, and culture.  This track consisting of 3 semesters will culminate in over 75+ hours of classroom experiences and a required international clinical experience(s) over a span of 3.5 years.  

Specifically, this course is the second in a series of 3 courses where students will synthesize and develop what they learned in the first course while focusing on addressing neglected diseases and other more specific global health issues. This semester will consist of 30 plus hours of coursework, graded Honors/Pass/Fail for a total of 2 credits. Time will also be given to hone specific clinical skills needed to work with patients. Students are also expected to work collaboratively and actively participate as both learners and educators through class discussions and semester projects.

GLB 5033: Global Medicine Track III

The main focus of this track is for our students to develop the skills necessary to be successful physicians and to be able to better serve their patients both internationally and here in the US.   The population here is the US continues to increase in cultural and socioeconomic diversity with a responding need for appropriate provision of healthcare services.  Regardless of the student’s chosen specialty in medicine, whether students work domestically or overseas, they must have a better understanding of how their patient’s health is affected by not only where they live, but also factors such as socioeconomic status, type of government and healthcare system available to them, and culture.  This track consisting of 3 semesters will culminate in over 75+ hours of classroom experiences and a required international clinical experience(s) over a span of 3.5 years. 

Specifically, in this course, the third and final of three courses in the Global Medicine Track, students will reinforce and apply what they have learned during the first 2 semesters.  Additional skills and topics related to caring for marginalized populations and practicing in low resource areas will be addressed.  Students will be prepared for the clinical year requirements to pass the track and also review the requirements for applying to the Global Health Certificate program in the fall of their final year of matriculation.  This semester will consist of a minimum of 16 hours, graded Honors/Pass/Fail for a total of 1 credit.   Students are also expected to work collaboratively and actively participate as both learners and educators through class discussions and semester projects.

GLB 5050: Global Medical Outreach

This is an RVUCOM medical outreach elective opportunity open to all first and second medical students. The goal of this course is to provide medical students a cross-cultural medical education experience through study and work outside of the United States in order to understand its challenges and apply the knowledge learned to their practice of medicine.

Students will be provided the opportunity to provide diagnostic and patient care services, participate in preventive and public health events, and work in areas such as minor surgery, pharmacy, triage, and clinical laboratory settings. 

GLB 5060 : TSP Certificate Capstone Course

This is the final remaining credited course for receiving an additional Certificate of Study upon graduation from RVU.   The focus of this capstone course is to allow students the time necessary to synthesize and demonstrate competency in their understanding and ability to specifically discuss topics they have learned about during their time in one of the newly developed RVU Certificate Programs. This will occur in their final year of matriculation and is a Pass/Fail rubric-graded one credit course.  

The expected time for completion of this course is 20-25 hours.  See below for specific assignments for this course.