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Global Health Issues During Medical School
Global health courses teach medical students how to treat patients from diverse backgrounds, experts say
When an epidemic emerges, it often crosses national borders, which requires doctors from various countries to collaborate to stop the outbreak and heal the sick.
Experts say that in an interconnected world, a good medical school education includes courses on global health issues and ideally allows students to do service learning projects in countries that lack adequate medical care.
Ideally, experts say, global health programs in medical schools address both health concerns that plague all nations, such as obesity, diabetes, and sexual transmitted diseases, and those prevalent in particular regions, such as tropical diseases and water-borne illnesses.
In addition, experts say, students should look for programs that address how ethnicity, location and travel frequency influence patients' risk of acquiring specific illnesses. And, experts say, students should also seek programs that describe how health systems vary between nations and what experiments are being tried by doctors abroad that could be applied at home.
Dr. Joel Shalowitz, professor of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, says understanding how another nation's health system works enriches your outlook on your own country's health care system by allowing you to compare and contrast the two.
Source: adapted from usnews.com, 30 jan 2017.
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