US medical specialty global health training

Vanessa B. Kerry; Rochelle P. Walensky; Alexander C. Tsai; Regan W. Bergmark; Brian A. Bergmark; Chaturia Rouse; David R. Bangsberg

doi:10.7189/jogh.03.020406

Journal of Global Health (Dec 2013)

US medical specialty global health training

Vanessa B. Kerry ,
Rochelle P. Walensky ,
Alexander C. Tsai ,
Regan W. Bergmark ,
Brian A. Bergmark ,
Chaturia Rouse ,
David R. Bangsberg

Affiliations

Vanessa B. Kerry: Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
Rochelle P. Walensky: Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass, USA; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA; Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Alexander C. Tsai: Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA; Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
Regan W. Bergmark: Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Mass, USA; Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Brian A. Bergmark: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
Chaturia Rouse: Boston University, Boston, Mass, USA
David R. Bangsberg: Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA; Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass, USA; Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA; Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.03.020406
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 120 – 128

Abstract

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Rapid growth in global health activity among US medical specialty education programs has lead to heterogeneity in types of activities and global health training models. The breadth and scope of this activity is not well chronicled. Using a standardized search protocol, we examined the characteristics of US medical residency global health programs by number of programs, clinical specialty, nature of activity (elective, research, extended curriculum based field training), and geographic location across seven different clinical medical residency education specialties. We tabulated programmatic activity by clinical discipline, region and country. We calculated the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to estimate the association between programmatic activity and country–level disease burden.

Published in Journal of Global Health

ISSN: 2047-2978 (Print); 2047-2986 (Online)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Global Health Society
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: http://jogh.org

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