The Long View
The Long View
In the global health survey conducted in 2012, Drs. Shoeb and Le found that 46% of respondents were interested in collaborating with other hospitalists in order to increase their impact on health equity. In response to these and other observations about a need for mentorship, SHM established a Global Health and Human Rights Section, chaired by Drs. Shoeb and Le. They will be hosting a special global health forum at HM14 later this month in Las Vegas (www.hospitalmedicine2014.org).
The section goals are to:
Dr. Le, who has been affiliated with Partners in Health since his residency at Harvard Medical School, has spent time in sub-Saharan Africa as well as Haiti. He has been instrumental in advancing the HM global health agenda at UCSF and helped to organize the first national retreat on global health in HM last year. The program held its second annual retreat in December 2013.
Besides UCSF, two other global health fellowships are designed specifically for hospitalists: the University of Chicago Global Hospital Medicine Fellowship is headed by Evan Lyon, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the section of hospital medicine in the UC Department of Medicine; the University of Florida College of Medicine's Global Health-Hospitalist Fellowship program in Gainesville is headed by Vincent DeGennaro, Jr., MD, MPH, assistant professor in the division of hospital medicine.
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Dr. Auguste confers with Partners in Health hospitalists at St. Thérèse Hospital in Hinche, Haiti.
In addition, hospitalist Deepak Asudani, MD, MPH, FHM, health sciences assistant clinical professor at the University of California San Diego, reports that his department is interested in organizing a global health fellowship program. A firm believer in the distinction between global health and international health, Dr. Asudani explains that the UCSD program will be geared to teach U.S.-trained physicians how to practice medicine in resource-limited countries. It will have a track for physicians from other countries to study hospital medicine here.
Hospitalists Unite
In the global health survey conducted in 2012, Drs. Shoeb and Le found that 46% of respondents were interested in collaborating with other hospitalists in order to increase their impact on health equity. In response to these and other observations about a need for mentorship, SHM established a Global Health and Human Rights Section, chaired by Drs. Shoeb and Le. They will be hosting a special global health forum at HM14 later this month in Las Vegas (www.hospitalmedicine2014.org).
The section goals are to:
Provide a forum for like-minded hospitalists to share experiences and knowledge;
Enhance the skill sets of hospitalists to apply their expertise in resource-poor settings; and
Strengthen the capacity of local health systems through long-term collaborations and training in quality improvement.
Dr. Le, who has been affiliated with Partners in Health since his residency at Harvard Medical School, has spent time in sub-Saharan Africa as well as Haiti. He has been instrumental in advancing the HM global health agenda at UCSF and helped to organize the first national retreat on global health in HM last year. The program held its second annual retreat in December 2013.
Besides UCSF, two other global health fellowships are designed specifically for hospitalists: the University of Chicago Global Hospital Medicine Fellowship is headed by Evan Lyon, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the section of hospital medicine in the UC Department of Medicine; the University of Florida College of Medicine's Global Health-Hospitalist Fellowship program in Gainesville is headed by Vincent DeGennaro, Jr., MD, MPH, assistant professor in the division of hospital medicine.
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Dr. Auguste confers with Partners in Health hospitalists at St. Thérèse Hospital in Hinche, Haiti.
In addition, hospitalist Deepak Asudani, MD, MPH, FHM, health sciences assistant clinical professor at the University of California San Diego, reports that his department is interested in organizing a global health fellowship program. A firm believer in the distinction between global health and international health, Dr. Asudani explains that the UCSD program will be geared to teach U.S.-trained physicians how to practice medicine in resource-limited countries. It will have a track for physicians from other countries to study hospital medicine here.
