四年级的选修课
家庭医学选修课
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高级门诊家庭医学四年级医学生选修家庭医学系
这是考虑在家庭医学实习的学生的选修课。
Course Director: Florence Laforest (Flafores@bu.edu)
Course Instructor: Sara Tepperberg, MD MPH
Number of Student: One or Two 4th year medical student(s)
Period: Blocks as available
Locations: Two of three possible out-patient sites: Codman Square Health Center, South Boston Community Health Center, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
OBJECTIVE: To gain exposure and experience full-spectrum ambulatory family medicine in an academic community health center setting
目标
- 了解家庭医生在服务不足的城市社区中的作用
- 接触家庭医学住院医师培训环境
- To improve history taking and physical examination skills
- 发展基于病人访谈和检查的重点鉴别诊断
- 根据鉴别诊断确定是否需要以及需要哪些进一步的检测方式
澳门威尼斯人注册网站
萨拉·泰珀伯格,医学硕士希瑟·米瑟利斯,医学硕士雷切尔·莫特-凯斯,医学博士
额外的澳门威尼斯人注册网站
Students will work with a variety of Family Medicine faculty and residents at each site
课程
学生的目标是进入家庭医学领域的选择性。学生将会看到走动的病人在附属居住的一个或两个网站,包括波士顿南部社区卫生中心,东波士顿社区卫生中心和科德曼广场卫生中心。学生将与各种家庭医学住院医师和导师一起工作,因此不太可能有机会获得澳门威尼斯人注册网站的重要总结性评估和高级荣誉。在适当的监督下,学生将与病人进行第一次接触并进行初步检查。学生将提高他们对未分化病人的诊断技能,以及对家庭医学中常见的急慢性问题的评估和管理技能。将强调在家庭环境中进行病人教育和预防医学方面的指导。Students will participate in staff conferences and may attend rounds, conferences and lectures that are part of the BMC Family Medicine Residency Program.
这门选修课也可通过波士顿医疗中心少数族裔招募计划获得。
评价
The student will be evaluated by the same BU SOM assessment tool that is used for BU Family medicine clerks or by the Elective evaluation supplied by their sponsoring institution.
For information on how to apply, please contact Chenille Hogan at chenille@bu.edu.
Maternal and Child Health Elective – BMC
标题: Maternal/Child Health – Boston Medical Center (032.1H)
教练:莎拉·黑尔,MD - Sarah.Hale@bmc.org
课程管理员:雪尼尔·霍根- Chenille@bu.edu
地点:波士顿医疗中心,波士顿,马萨诸塞州
每班学生人数:一个
提供期限:选择性块,请查询
住房:不可用
这选课给学生一个真实的家庭medicine-centered经验包括产前和围产期保健(包括分娩),住院女性产后护理,以及新生儿托儿所照顾他们的婴儿。学生将花上午的时间在产后楼层照顾妇女和她们的婴儿-您将专注于诸如母乳喂养(包括与我们的哺乳顾问共度时光),新生儿检查,常规产后护理,产妇咨询和预期指导等问题。下午将在诊所花要么看到初级护理病人(包括尽可能多的儿科门诊产前/),或澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究您所选择的孕产妇和儿童健康的话题将在选举结束。学生每周有一个晚上通宵值班,让他们有机会积极参与分娩以及分娩和分娩护理的各个方面。Each student chooses one weekend to work with the postpartum/nursery rounder to get more direct clinical experience. 参加这个选修课为你提供了一个很好的机会,让你成为一个积极而重要的团队成员,并有很大的独立性。从这种轮换中获益最多的学生是自我激励和积极主动的学习者。
学生演讲样本:
甲状腺功能减退症(PowerPoint投影片,3.93 MB)
产后避孕(PowerPoint投影片,1.03 MB)
家庭医学副实习生- BMC
标题:波士顿医疗中心内科或家庭医学实习(01 - 01)
讲师:Chris Manasseh, MD课程管理员:Chenille Hogan, chenille@bu.edu地点:东牛顿馆。波士顿大学医疗中心团队:东牛顿家庭医学住院服务每个街区的学生:提供一段时间:有选择的街区,请咨询方向:轮转的第一天
概述
学生将工作与家庭医学住院实习生团队。他们将照顾来自HealthNet Rounder系统的各种各样的病人,作为病人的主要照顾者。他们将所有实习生的职责,包括病人的日常管理,新入学,参加会议和参与日常教学。
描述
- 地点:E6W,团队在护士经理办公室旁的FM会议室6269开会
- 日常安排:一般是每周6天早上7点到下午6点,每周有一天会延长到晚上7点,允许独立入场。早上7点团队签到,7:30-8点教学,8:30床边查房,每天中午会议,下午6点签到
- 每个月,学生需要在周末工作3天,具体安排需要与住院部主任协商。注意:学生遵循团队的假期/假期时间表,而不是波士顿大学,在做出任何旅行安排之前与团队沟通
- 除了家庭医学病房的主治医师外,学生还将直接接受二年级或三年级住院医师的指导。
- 学生将主要负责照顾他们的病人,他们将参加所有会议,日常教学
课程
- 每天的病床和教学查房,新入院的病人,早上的教学环节
- 上午两节课的演讲
- 与课程指导老师进行重点的人力资源与人力资源评估
- 会议:
- 周一中午——家庭医学居民会议,道林五楼南翼,家庭医学的部门;
- 周二:家庭医学大查房,FGH会议室;
- 星期三:家庭医学下午研讨会,每月两次,下午1点至4点,道林5南;
- 周四:HealthNet公司会议,ENP 2楼,中午12点,提供午餐
目标
- 评估,制定鉴别诊断,并提出初步评估和管理常见急性门诊患者(U,R)
- 对常见慢性病(U、C、R、S)患者进行一次慢性病随访
- 为任何年龄或任何性别的患者制定循证健康维持计划(U, R)
- 讨论家庭医学护理的原则(B, U, C, E, S)
- 在高级历史学习,沟通,体检和批判性思维技能方面表现出能力(B, C, A)
- 讨论家庭医生提供初级保健对任何医疗保健系统的价值(美国、美国)
评价:
- 根据上述目标和标准BU学生评估工作表进行评估,由监督住院医师和所有FM住院医师完成,为期4周。
- Summative evaluation by course instructor, Rebecca Juliar, pager#8944 will be reviewed with student in mid-rotation feedback and at the conclusion of the rotation
缺勤指南
Students are reminded to maintain standards of professionalism, courtesy and common sense when scheduling residency interviews that take place during fourth year rotations. 尽可能把面试安排在假期。一般来说,学生在得到轮岗主任的事先许可后,在四周的轮岗期间离开不超过四天。
请留意以下指引:
- 学生必须连续工作至少两周,不得缺勤,才能通过轮岗。
- If a student is absent for more than four days, those missed days must be made up in order to pass the rotation. 在某些情况下,学生可能需要重复轮换。
- 学生们遵循球队的假期安排,而不是波士顿大学的。和轮岗主任谈谈之前负责轮岗期间的旅行安排。
Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Preceptorship/Subinternship
标题: Family Practice Preceptorship – Central Maine Medical Center (030.1c)
教练:拉吉·伍尔弗博士
地点:中央缅因医疗中心家庭执业住院医师,76高街,刘易斯顿,缅因州04240
每班学生人数:一个
提供期限:块12-20
住房:可用
食物:自助餐厅通行证,提供无限食物
描述:学生将学习家庭实践的专业知识,以及家庭医生在照顾病人和家庭方面的独特之处。实习主要是门诊经验(包括1周的家庭实践住院服务)的学生在一个繁忙的工作社区医院家庭医疗中心作为连续性的居民和澳门威尼斯人注册网站。还有一个机会花些时间,在一个农村家庭医疗办公室如果要求的学生。临床文员将独立地为门诊病人看病,并在将病人介绍给家庭执业导师之前,生成病史、适当的体格检查、评估和计划。这种组合的照顾农村家庭+服务不足人口居住的贫民区提供丰富的学习机会包括各种医疗、精神和社会问题。学生还将接触到家庭实践住院护理,参加分娩,参加门诊程序和家访。学生将与高级住院医师和住院医师澳门威尼斯人注册网站在他们的指导课程中进行通话。学生们将在中午参加一个全面的教学课程。
拉丁裔健康
标题: Latino Health Elective for 4th year medical students
课程主任:伊丽莎白·费伦兹医学博士
课程管理员:雪尼尔·霍根
每班学生人数:一个
提供期限:选择性块,请咨询
地点:东波士顿社区健康中心
总结
拉丁裔健康选修课面向具有中高级西班牙语水平的学生,他们希望获得照顾讲西班牙语的患者和澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究拉丁裔社区健康的集中经验。要参加,学生应该能够用西班牙语进行历史和身体检查。学生将在各种临床环境中工作,包括门诊初级保健、慢性疾病管理诊所和专科护理。Students will explore health disparities, as well as educate themselves regarding barriers to health care and community resources available to Latino patients throughout Boston. 在为期四周的轮转中,学生将被要求调查并提出与课程主任商定的主题。
在报名参加这门选修课之前,你必须联系课程主任,以确定这门选修课是否适合你和你的西班牙语熟练程度。
选修课描述
The Latino Health Elective is an opportunity for fourth year medical students to improve their ability to provide medical care in Spanish, to increase their understanding of Latino health issues and disparities, and to research a topic of relevance to the health of Latino communities.
选修体验将在东波士顿社区健康中心(EBNHC),波士顿医疗中心和波士顿地区社区机构进行。
学生将参加EBNHC家庭医学和慢性疾病管理的临床课程。专业临床会议将在BMC举行。学生将负责用西班牙语进行历史和身体检查,并以标准的英语口头报告形式报告他们的发现。
At community agencies, students will learn about outreach to the Latino community around issues of immigration, housing, education, and more. 拉丁裔老年人护理将探索成人日保健计划。
Selected readings will be provided to students to expand their knowledge of Latino communities in the United States and health disparities facing Latinos. 这些阅读材料将被独立审阅,并与课程主任讨论。
在四周的轮换期间,学生将选择一个与拉丁裔社区相关的感兴趣的主题,并准备在最后一周分享的口头报告。
学生将根据他们参与临床会议、参与社区机构和独立阅读的情况进行评估。最后的报告将根据与拉丁美洲人健康和口头报告技能的相关性进行评估。
学生必须在报名参加这门选修课之前联系课程主任,以确保他们的西班牙语熟练程度足以在这轮轮换中获得成功的经验。
目标
在拉丁裔健康选修课程结束时,BUSM学生将能够:
- 提高她/他以西班牙语提供医疗服务的熟练程度(B、C、A)
- 评估她/他自己用西班牙语提供医疗服务的能力,并确定如何继续提高这种能力(B、C、A、E)
- 定义口译员在临床接触中的角色(C, S)
- 描述影响选定拉丁裔社区的最显著的健康差异(R, E, S)
- 解释拉丁裔社区在美国医疗保健系统中面临的障碍(R, E, S)
- 讨论居住在波士顿地区的拉丁美洲人可用的社区资源(S)
- 描述拉丁裔长者面临的特殊挑战(U, R)
- 目前澳门威尼斯人注册与拉丁裔社区有关的健康主题的项目(C、R、E)
课程
课程包括(另见模块模板的单独文件):
- Clinical sessions – two sessions each week at EBNHC Family Medicine, one session each week in specialist clinics at EBNHC or BMC, chronic disease management individual and group visits twice a block at EBNHC, interpreter services session
- 社区机构——每周两次与为拉丁美洲人服务的社区团体举行会议
- 文献综述——在实习的第二周与课程主任共同选择主题,在整个block中有时间进行调查,第四周进行口头陈述
- 语言技能——每周最多有一节课专门用于独立的西班牙语学习,课程主任有可用的语言书籍可供借阅,并推荐会话练习机会
- 选读材料——在实习开始时提供,用于独立阅读和分析,然后与课程主任讨论;这个讨论将允许课程主任评估你对材料的理解,并将成为你评估的一个组成部分:
人口健康
健康人群2020
- http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/
- 选择选项卡- 2020主题和目标
- 选择选项卡-健康的社会决定因素
医学澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究所。卫生保健的差异:澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究种族、民族和社会经济地位对卫生保健的获取、使用和质量的影响的方法,2002年。Available from http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Quality/NHDRGuidance/DisparitiesGornick.pdf [PDF – 108 KB]
拉丁裔健康问题-全国
疾病控制中心-西班牙裔或拉丁裔人口
健康人2010年西班牙裔人口快照
-改进目标和差异更新
——http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hpdata2010/hispanic_snapshot.pdf
非自然原因-纪录片系列和讨论指南
- 视频剪辑- http://unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=215
- http://unnaturalcauses.org/assets/uploads/file/UC_DiscussionGuide_3.pdf
拉丁裔健康-马萨诸塞州
健康状况在麻萨诸塞州的拉美裔成年人口语偏好
- 医疗条件和对健康的看法
- http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/behavioral-risk/hispanic-language.pdf
迁移
张建军,张建军。移民环境、心理困扰与美国拉丁裔移民自评身体健康。公共卫生杂志,2013,103(9):1619-27。
文化能力
Kutob RM, Bormanis J, Crago M, Senf J, Gordon P, Shisslak CM。Assessing culturally competent diabetes care with unannounced standardized patients. 中华医学杂志,2013;45(6):400-8。
团体医疗探访
侯默CS,赖安C,李跃N,傅瑞尔M,泰特A,卡特林-保罗CJ。妇女群体产前护理与传统产前护理的对比。Cochrane数据库系统2012年11月14日。
王晓明,王晓明,王晓明,等。团体就诊对糖尿病护理效果的影响:系统评价和meta分析。协会。2013 Sep 17;185(13):E635-44.
医疗条件
哮喘
环境保护署总结http://www.epa.gov/epahome/sciencenb/asthma/HD_Hispanic_Asthma.pdf
儿童多动症
摩根PL、员工J, Hillemeier MM, Farkas G, Maczuga美国种族和民族ADHD诊断从幼儿园到八年级之间的差距。儿科杂志,2013,32(1):85-93。
青少年/性传播感染
Lee YM, Dancy B, Florez E, Holm K. Factors related to sexual practices and successful sexually transmitted infection/HIV intervention programs for Latino adolescents. 公共卫生护理,2013,9 - 10,30(5):390-401。doi: 10.1111 / phn.12039。2013年4月29日。
肥胖
流行率统计数字
http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/content.aspx?lvl=3&lvlID=537&ID=6459
Taveras EM,吉尔曼兆瓦,Kleinman KP,瑞奇爱德华JW, Rifas-Shiman SL。减少儿童肥胖的种族/民族差异:早期生活风险因素的作用。中华儿科杂志,2013,31(8):731- 738。
语言能力
Bauer AM, Alegría M. Impact of patient language proficiency and interpreter service use on the quality of psychiatric care: a systematic review. 精神病学杂志,2010;61(8):765-73。
González HM, Vega WA, Tarraf W. Health care quality perceptions among foreign-born Latinos and the importance of speaking the same language. 中华医学杂志,2010;11 - 12;23(6):745-52。
Lion KC, Thompson DA, Cowden JD, Michel E, Rafton SA, Hamdy RF, Killough EF, Fernandez J, Ebel BE。Clinical Spanish use and language proficiency testing among pediatric residents. 中华医学杂志,2013,38(10):1478-84。
西班牙语资源-书记员期间借阅的书籍
波士顿妇女健康团体Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas, 2000。
生气,埃莉诺和Iguina Zulma手动de gramatica语法参考学生的西班牙,2003年第3版。
Murkoff, Heidi和Mazel, Sharon Que:《世界语澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究》,世界语澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究,2010。
维尔纳,大卫,图曼,卡罗尔,麦克斯韦,简·唐德没有干草医生2012。
评价
在课程的最后一周,学生将与Elizabeth Ferrenz博士一起对他/她的既定目标的实现情况进行正式评估。学生将有一个观察的临床遭遇,并完成观察清单。最终的项目报告将根据调查的深度和口头报告技巧进行评估。
澳门威尼斯人注册网站
课程主任- Elizabeth Ferrenz,医学博士,家庭医学
临床澳门威尼斯人注册网站——可能取决于可用性每一块
卡罗的后代,注册营养师,EBNHC
内分泌科的Sonia Ananthakrishnan医生
Dr. Jose Betances, Pediatrics
查尔斯·布利斯医生,肠胃科
Dr. Miriam Hoffman, Family Medicine
Dr. Jessica Levi, Pediatric Otolaryngology
神经内科的何塞·罗梅罗医生
Peter Smith博士,慢性疾病教育与管理(CDEM), EBNHC
高级医疗保健通信- BMC
标题: Elective in Advanced Healthcare Communication
教练:苏珊娜·米切尔,医学博士
地点:BUMC/Hancock Manor养老院
每班学生人数: 6
提供期限:选择性块,请咨询
住房:不可用
During this four-week elective, students will cultivate a deeper understanding of the complex interactions between patients, healthcare providers and healthcare systems and the relationship to health outcomes. Topics to be explored include:
- Cross cultural communications and the influence of clinical uncertainty, stereotyping and unconscious bias in physician decision-making and the propagation of health disparities.
- Communicating with “difficult patients”.
- Building skills in Patient Activation
- Healthcare communications, Health Literacy and Patient Safety
- 医生在临床环境中的自我表露
- 高效的以关系为中心的护理
学习目标:
- Gain awareness of issue of health and healthcare disparities,
- Appreciate effects of unconscious bias, clinical uncertainty and stereotyping on patient care decisions.
- 学习和练习跨文化交流的新技能
- 学习和实践医疗保健沟通的关键能力,包括有效的提供者-患者对话,收集信息,建立信任和关系,引出解释模型,表达同情和同情,以及护理计划的谈判。
- 掌握处理困难和敏感的临床情况的技能,例如处理生活方式行为(即药物滥用、高危性行为、戒烟、家庭暴力),获得高级指示,处理“困难”的病人遭遇。
Learning Experiences:
- 参加选修课的学生每周将与课程主任会面一次,进行2-3小时的研讨会,讨论高级医疗保健通信的主题。对指定阅读材料或电影片段的讨论将促进对关键话题的讨论。其他工作坊活动包括角色扮演、反思性写作、内隐联想测验的使用和讨论。
- At the beginning of the elective, each student will be paired with a patient to follow for the month. The student will follow the patient from the inpatient setting to discharge including making a home visit and accompanying the patient to follow up outpatient visits with specialists, PCP or other allied health visits. 学生的责任是学习和报告患者在护理过渡中的经验,并将医疗保健沟通如何阻碍或促进患者的护理体验质量联系起来。
- Clinical care: Student will be assigned to participate in either an ambulatory care clinic or inpatient ward team one to two times per week for interviewing opportunities only. (持续的病人护理将由病房小组负责。)
Learning Tools:
- 视频与简报:世界的分离
- Clinical care experience with preceptor
- 阅读,周二与莫里,厨房餐桌智慧
- Student-Patient Pairing Experience
- Role plays/Clinical precepting for practice in eliciting advanced directives, assessing health literacy, motivational interviewing, difficult conversations or managing difficult patient scenarios.
- 医学文献中的相关文章
- 针对健康差异、临床决策不确定性和患者护理中的隐性偏见等问题进行小组讨论。
Suzanne E. Mitchell M.D. is a board certified family physician, medical educator and consultant in physician-patient communication. 除了她在医疗澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究活动差异,米切尔博士在跨文化交流为医务人员提供培训,以病人为中心的护理和患者激活。She has served as course director for the Healer’s Art course at Tufts University. 她获得了Wake Forest University School of Medicine的博士学位,并在White Memorial Medical Center家庭医学住院医师项目完成了家庭医学的澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究生培训。他持有加州大学洛杉矶分校的临床澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究硕士学位。Her research interests are in health disparities in transitions of care, healthcare and cross cultural communications and healthcare access. Dr. Mitchell is an academic faculty fellow in the Boston University School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine.
初级保健运动医学家庭医学系医学生四年级选修课
标题:初级保健运动医学四年级医学生选修课
家庭医学系
课程主任: Chenille Hogan (chenille@bu.edu)
办公电话:617-414-6237
课程讲师: Alysia L. Green, MD
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 1 4 th year BU medical student
期:Block 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, and 19
LOCATIONS: Boston Medical Center, BU Ryan Center for Sports Medicine, South Boston Community Health Center, East Boston Neighborhood Community Health Center (Winthrop location), BU Athletic Training Room and various athletic fields/venues for event coverage
目的:获得初级保健运动医学领域的知识和经验
目标
- 提高病史记录和体检技能
- Development of a solid musculoskeletal examination
- 基于损伤史和体格检查结果的重点鉴别诊断的发展
- Determining what further testing modalities are needed based on the differential diagnosis
- Exposure to athletic training and rehabilitation of the injured athlete
- Understanding the role of the team physician, student athlete and athletic trainer
- Game coverage experience (may be unavailable for academic 2021-2022 due to COVID)
澳门威尼斯人注册网站
Alysia L. Green,医学博士,家庭医学/初级保健运动医学
Nathan Cardoos, MD-Family Medicine/Primary Care Sports Medicine
克里斯托弗马,医学博士-家庭医学/初级保健运动医学
额外的澳门威尼斯人注册网站
马克·劳尔森,波士顿大学运动训练服务部主任
珍妮弗Chadburn。波士顿大学运动训练服务部助理主任
初级保健运动医学澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究员
课程
The curriculum will include multiple experiences in primary care sports medicine. 以下是每周就诊时间和其他经历的示例:
-8 half days of Primary Care Sports Medicine which could be in any of our multiple clinic locations. 你必须能够到达上面列出的任何诊所地点。You will be required to travel to all locations.
-1在我的非手术骨科诊所和格林医生一起在BMC骨科呆一整天
-周三上午运动医学会议上午7点(可能通过Zoom)
-1/2天波士顿大学运动训练室医生诊所与一名初级保健运动医学医生一对一工作,因为他们评估波士顿大学学生运动员(由于COVID, 2021-2022年可能无法使用)
-1/2 day of reading time
-Game coverage: There may be no game coverage opportunities for academic year 2021-2022 due to COVID. If there are I cannot guarantee coverage for every block the elective is offered. If available game coverage will vary depending on the time of year and block possibility of 1-2 game coverage opportunities per week of the elective.
Please note much of the game coverage occurs in the evening and/or the weekends so student needs to be aware they may have to work late and possibly on the weekends.
EVALUATION
The student will have a mid-block evaluation of their achievement of the above stated goals, done by Alysia L Green M.D with the written/verbal input of the other physicians and additional staff members. They will further be evaluated throughout their rotation on their musculoskeletal examination skills. The student will be responsible for a literature review to be completed during their 4 week rotation on a topic to be determined by Primary Care Sports Medicine Staff.
POLICY
Student will have to provide at least 30 days’ notice if they are going to drop the elective otherwise it will not be allowed unless they are able to find someone to take over their spot. NO EXCEPTIONS.
DynaMed
Title: DynaMed
Location: Danvers, MA
Description:
DynaMed is a company that produces evidence-based medicine point-of-source information. Student will research, write, and evaluate medical evidence of relevance to practicing physicians. Opportunities possible for publication (check ahead of time).
Family Medicine Lesotho Elective
Title: Family Medicine Lesotho Elective
Instructor: Dr. Rudolf Schumacher, MD, PhD
Location: Motebang District Hospital, Lesotho, Southern Africa
Period: Selective Blocks, Please Inquire
Housing: Available
Description: A family medicine elective opportunity in northern Lesotho (Lĕ-SOO-too), Southern Africa. Rotations are based at Motebang District Hospital. A commitment of 6-8 weeks is required for this rotation. Motebang Hospital is located in a town called Leribe in the Leribe district of Lesotho about 90 km north of Maseru, and 20 km from Maputsoe, a major border crossing to Ficksburg, South Africa. Motebang is one of two regional referral hospitals in the country and serves the northern districts.
Motebang is a 196-bed hospital that serves the second largest catchment population of any district hospital (the national referral hospital also serves as the district hospital for Maseru). There are over 55,000 outpatient visits at the hospital and nearly 5,300 inpatient admissions with wide ranging presentations of illness.
This program is administered by the Lesotho Boston Health Alliance that is based in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University Medial Center.
Living: Students are accommodated at a convent guest house near the hospital. The convent offers a private room with a shared kitchen and bathroom. It costs R175 (~$25)* per night, which includes three meals. A lower cost may be available if meals are not included. If you elect to buy your own food, it will cost about $25-$35/week.
*this rate may be more depending on the time you travel to Lesotho.
Language: Patients primarily speak Southern Sesotho. All staff are fluent in English. If needed, hospital staff can serve as interpreters.
Medical Experience: Students will have extensive opportunities in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology including cesarean section, and Surgery including Urology and Ophthalmology. Common medical problems include HIV-AIDS and opportunistic infections, tuberculosis, orthopedic trauma, and maternal-child health including cesarean section.
成本:
- 学杂费:无
- 住宿/食物费用:每周25- 35美元
- 当地旅行费用:最低
- 机票:1500- 2000美元
Interested: Given the challenging nature of this elective, interested students are first required to meet with Suzanne Sarfaty, M.D., Director, International Health Program, BUSM, to discuss the feasibility of this elective and the application process. 虽然波士顿大学已经成为该医院的附属机构,但6月至8月是开设这门选修课最困难的时间,因为与该医院有更长期合作关系的美国学校会得到优先考虑。学生可以在来自儿科、家庭医学和内科的住院医师也在医院的时候选修这门课程。Presently, two students for each time period are allowed.
要求:学生必须在旅行前参加强制性的入学培训。学生也必须在出发前参加北卡罗来纳大学的旅行诊所,以确保他们在这门选修课上的最大安全。
Wilderness Elective
非波士顿大学学生的信息:所有的选修课都为波士顿大学的学生保留,直到5月的第一周。在这一天,我们将开始接受校外学生的申请。They will be reviewed in the order that they are received. 如果您有兴趣申请波士顿大学医学中心的选修课,请在5月1日或之后将您的简历和个人陈述发邮件至chenille@bu.edu。
The Office of Minority Physician Recruitment at Boston Medical Center affiliate teaching hospital of Boston University School of Medicine is now accepting applications for their Subsidized Visiting Elective Program (SVEP). 申请截止日期4月26日th 2019
补贴访问选修项目允许合格的四年级少数族裔医学生考虑申请波士顿大学医学中心的住院医师项目之一,有机会在为期一个月的选修课程中获得实践经验,并接触我们的临床服务和不同的患者群体。
有什么好处?
- Accepted students will be reimbursed up to $2,000 for travel, housing, and VSLO/VSAS application fee.
- 在波士顿最繁忙的一级创伤中心和最大的安全网医院接受临床教育,该医院为全市最多样化的患者提供服务。
- 与URM澳门威尼斯人注册网站、住院医师和澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究员交流的机会。
- 探索波士顿这座城市的机会。
谁有资格申请?
- 目前在读全日制三年级医学生申请高级选修课。
- Good academic standing at a LCME accredited institution.
- 属于被认为在医学上代表性不足的群体的个人(黑人/非裔美国人,西班牙裔/拉丁裔,美洲原住民和太平洋岛民/夏威夷原住民)
- US Citizens or permanent resident
如果您有任何问题或需要有关资助访问选修项目的更多信息,请联系项目经理Justin McCummings - justin.mccummings@bmc.org或617-414-7136。
申请详情请参阅以下连结: