Reframing undergraduate medical education in global health: Rationale and key principles from the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative

Michael J. Peluso, Susan van Schalkwyk, Anne Kellett, Timothy F. Brewer, A. Mark Clarfield, David Davies, Bishan Garg, Tobin Greensweig, Janet Hafler, Jianlin Hou, Moira Maley, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Senga Pemba, Janette “Jenny” Samaan, Stephen Schoenbaum, Babulal Sethia, Juan Pablo Uribe, Carmi Z. Margolis, Robert M. Rohrbaugh

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Abstract

Global health education (GHE) continues to be a growing initiative in many medical schools across the world. This focus is no longer limited to participants from high-income countries and has expanded to institutions and students from low- and middle-income settings. With this shift has come a need to develop meaningful curricula through engagement between educators and learners who represent the sending institutions and the diverse settings in which GHE takes place. The Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative (BGHEI) was founded to create a space for such debate and discussion and to generate guidelines towards a universal curriculum for global health. In this article, we describe the development and process of our work and outline six overarching principles that ought to be considered when adopting an inclusive approach to GHE curriculum development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)639-645
Number of pages7
JournalMedical Teacher
Volume39
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Jun 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education

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