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The GMC has included a new learning outcome in Tomorrow's Doctors 2009: Discuss from a global perspective the determinants of health and disease and variations in health care delivery and medical practice. Most UK schools offer optional modules in this area but how it is addressed in the core curriculum is more variable. Medical student electives involve a high proportion of students leaving the UK to gain experience in other countries. There is longstanding concern about how well they are prepared for this and whether there is potential harm to both the students and their hosts. Doctors in training in the UK will encounter patients from many countries with varied cultures and disease patterns and work alongside colleagues whose basic professional education was completed in very different health care systems. This conference will give participants the opportunity to debate their understanding of global health education and how best to meet the key learning outcomes in their teaching.
The main purpose of the day was:
To exchange experiences of the participants in teaching and learning about global health
The learning objectives were:
To download the abstracts for the conference please click here
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| 9am | Registration/coffee |
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9.30am 9.35am |
Welcome, Dr Adrian Hastings, Department of Medical Education, Leicester Medical School (Kingston Theatre) Opening address: The Global Doctor – a new paradigm for the 21st Century It will be considered whether the construct of ‘doctor’ is universally understood and if medical schools can produce graduates able to work within any country. If a singleset of learning outcomes cannot be derived, which are fundamental to all situations? How can a newly qualified doctor reconcile ethical obligations to treat individuals equitably in a world where state of health is most determined by inequalities, within and between nations? |
| 10.15am | Refreshment break (Waterside Room) |
| 10.30am | Concurrent sessions: morning workshops & parallel sessions |
| 12pm | Delegate poster presentations |
| 12.45pm | Lunch |
| 1.30pm | Concurrent sessions: afternoon workshops & parallel sessions |
| 3pm |
Refreshment break (Waterside Room) |
| 3.15pm |
Closing address: Global Health in the core curriculum – central or peripheral? Professor Murdoch-Eaton will explain why global health is an important topic within undergraduate medical education and refer to available evidence as to whether it is taught currently in UK medical schools. The address will debate the advantages of the different methods of delivery, in particular core teaching, the elective experience and student selected components. Debbie will be present for the whole of the meeting and will be able to incorporate his/her experiences of the day in the talk. |
| 3.55pm | Summary and thanks |
| 4pm | Close |
The main purpose of the day was to exchange experiences of the participants in teaching and learning about Global Health.
The learning objectives were:
There were two categories of presentation:
1. Innovation/work in progress (oral presentations during parallel sessions)
This section is for new ideas and delegates wishing to have a forum to present their work and receive feedback. The standard format will be to allow 10 minutes for presentation and 8 minutes for comment and feedback.
2. Posters
Delegates are invited to submit posters on themes relevant to the conference. These are for ideas/innovations which have not been developed to the completeness required for oral presentation. There will be an opportunity for presenters to speak about their posters during conference.
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Jon Dowell, Electives Convener and Reader in General Practice Dundee Medical School
A student or newly qualified doctor from Medsin (Medical Students International) TBC
In at the deep end: How to help students swim not sink?
For optimal gain as well as personal safety it is helpful if students prepare for their elective. Medical schools vary hugely in current practice and suitable resources are not well collated. This workshop will consider the area in which students might be required or encouraged to prepare and review some potential resources. The objective being to develop a framework against which schools can review their existing practice.
Stefi Barna, MPH Lecturer, Public Health, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.
Sarah Walpole, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, St Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough, Honorary Tutor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Leeds. Curriculum Developer and Foundation Liaison, Sustainable Healthcare Education Network
This workshop will present and critique various pedagogical approaches to teaching about climate change and health, both within global health modules and across the core curriculum. It will also explore the strategies used by leading medical schools in the UK to effect curriculum change in line with Tomorrow's Doctors guidelines and the NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy.
Oliver Johnson, Teaching Fellow in Global Health, Centre for Global Health, King's College London
Ann Wylie, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Primary Care & Public Health Sciences, King's College London
Where, when and what do we teach medical students?
Global health is an important component of core undergraduate medical education. In an increasingly globalized world, medical schools need to ensure that all doctors have the appropriate global health knowledge, skills and behaviour necessary to practice safely and effectively.
This workshop will explore proposals for the content of core global health teaching and reflect on experiences in planning and incorporating global health into medical curricula.
1. Curriculum change and student involvement
2. Electives – preparation and assessment
Chris Willott, Course Director, intercalated BSc in International Health, UCL
Isaac Ghinai, President, UCL Medsin (2010-11), ex-International Health BSc student
Enriching the medical approach to Global Health:
To be effective, international health teaching must draw on the expertise of academics and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines. This is because international health seeks to provide holistic answers to health problems, incorporating the political, social, economic, cultural and environmental into an overarching approach. This workshop will use examples of global health issues to illustrate the importance of using the tools of different academic disciplines, and the different answers that may be reached using these tools.
Andrew Lee, Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, ScHARR, Sheffield Medical School.
Raul Pardinaz-Solis, formerly Global Health Manager, Skillshare International, Leicester
Spanning the spectrum of engagement:
Global health teaching has grown from student selected components offered to enthusiastic volunteer students, keen to learn and is increasingly incorporated into the core curriculum with many unable to see the relevance to their future work. This will be an interactive workshop to share current practice and innovations in the delivery of global health teaching in undergraduate medical education. This includes examples of Sheffield Medical School's "Masterclass" series and Leicester's Health and Development SSC. The innovative one week course for all third year students at Trinity College Dublin will provide examples of teaching in the core curriculum.
Adrian Hastings, Senior Clinical Educator, Module Lead for Health and Development SSC, Leicester Medical School.
Suha Deen, consultant histo-pathologist, University of Nottingham
Black holes and blind faith:
In many schools the 'elective' is the only curriculum component that has remained unchanged by three iterations of Tomorrow's Doctors. Its impact on individual students is hugely variable – for some it becomes a life changing experience. At the other end of the spectrum it can be no more than a prospective study of shark attacks on the bathers at Bondi beach. In this workshop we will debate the degree to which the elective should be supervised and assessed, explore the approaches used by participants' schools and propose guiding principles that could be adopted by schools wishing to ensure all students gain real benefit from their elective.
3. The International Perspective – Links and Exchanges
4. The Curriculum – Deficits & Remedies
1. Abankwa
2. Brown
3. Chong
4. Cooke
5. Horesely
6. Kinnear Poster 1 / Poster 2
7. Mughal
8. Pool
9. Rittman Poster 1 / Poster 2
10.Tomes
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Professor Sir Eldryd Parry Founder of the Tropical Health & Education Trust -The Global Doctor – a new paradigm for the 21st Century
Professor Deborah Murdoch-Eaton, Director of Learning & Teaching, Leeds School of Medicine. Closing address: Global Health in the core curriculum – central or peripheral?
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