Wilderness medicine within global health: A strategy for less risk and more reward

摘要

In the last several years, healthcare workers and trainees have demonstrated an unprecedented interest in global health and the medical challenges facing developing countries and regions in crisis. Perhaps nowhere is this interest so apparent than in our medical schools and universities, where educators have moved quickly to create programs that meet this enthusiasm. It is now common for medical schools to build relationships with partners overseas and to create formal programs in global health education.1 The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) documented that 45 US medical schools have some sort of global health component in their curricula, with 29.9% of graduating US medical students stating they have had a "global health experience."2'3 However, these programs vary widely, making it unclear whether schools are meeting a baseline standard of global health knowledge in the types of academic and hands-on opportunities offered to students.