January 4, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Global Health Electives: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Presenter: Jenny Baenziger
Dr. Baenziger is a Med-Peds physician at Indiana University. In her role as the Associate Director of
Education at the IU Center for Global Health Equity, she oversees the IU Interdepartmental Global Health Residency Pathway and the international medical student electives. This includes the bilateral exchange of trainees between Moi University in Kenya and IU through the AMPATH partnership. Outside of work you’ll find her with her husband and 4 children, gardening, camping, or enjoying good conversation over dinner.
International medical electives for learners across the education continuum have exploded in popularity. Ethical and moral challenges abound, yet the benefits of experiential, transformative learning for trainees can be monumental. The challenges and rewards of global health electives as well as practical suggestions for implementation will be discussed.
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from Stanford University. He completed residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. His overall focus is on ecological approaches to epidemic disease prevention, containment, and treatment as well as the health effects of climate change. As part of these efforts, he is co-chair of the Walter and Patricia Rodney Commission on Reparations and co-chair of the Global Environmental Change Commission on Climate Justice.
His current appointments are as Professor of Medical Education at University College London (UCL), where he is Vice Dean (International) at the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Director of the UCL Centre for International Medical Education Collaborations (CIMEC), where he leads a portfolio of international partnerships with medical schools in several different countries. He has additionally held national leadership roles in medical education in the UK, including formerly as Medical Director for International Education at the Royal College of General Practitioners and currently as Chief Examiner for the General Medical Council PLAB exam, that internationally qualified doctors must pass to work clinically in the UK. He has an extensive track record in medical school accreditation both in the UK and overseas. He has worked for the Ministries of Higher Education in the UAE and Bahrain as an accreditation review panel member and chair and advised on national accreditation systems in various other countries.
practice reflectively and, in so doing, improve their world for themselves, their learners, and their patients. I am professor at a medical school internationally recognized for innovation, where the curriculum offers a “living laboratory” to collaboratively investigate the social and technological aspects of academic medicine. As editor-in-chief, I have special involvement in cultivating scholarly expertise, particularly individual voice and community insight. My productivity in these roles reflects a lifelong passion for understanding and facilitating occupational expertise. It appears as numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has been most recently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Kern Institute for Transforming Medical Education. I have been honored as a CGEA Laureate (2021), an SIU-SOM Outstanding Scholar (2016) and Outstanding Educator (2018), and an AMEE Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator (2014).
Learning at Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands, where he leads a team for the development, implementation and support of learning materials and where he provides strategic advice in the field of technology enhanced learning. His research interest is in the field of Online and Blended Learning in medical education. He authored several articles on the topic of the use of computers in education and online learning, and presented numeral oral, poster and workshop presentations. Peter is also interested in the topic of scientific education and the development of scientific engagement in medical students, on which he co-authored some articles and a book chapter together with Drs Ommering and Haramati (An Introduction to Medical Teaching, Third Edition, in press).
AMEE, the International Association for Health Professions Education. She is a general internist and educationalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions Education, in Boston, MA, USA; Honorary Professor of Medical Education, University of Manchester, UK; External Faculty, SHE, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is a senior core faculty in the Harvard Macy program for educators. She has authored peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Areas of scholarly interest include application of theory to educational practice, pedagogy and practice of clinical teaching, sociocultural factors that influence teaching, learning and feedback, mentoring relationships and increasingly, the intersection of culture and education from a global perspective. Her professional goals are driven by cultural humility and the desire to give back to the profession.
Professor at the Department for Innovation in Medical Education (DIME) at the University of Ottawa. She is an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow for the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge and an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Thirusha is a clinical psychologist who trained in apartheid-era South Africa. Inspired to give voice and make space for women of colour in research and health she uses research poetry as a method for deep reflexivity in research. Her research references critical and theoretical perspectives on health and health professions education through decolonial and feminist theories. Her clinical work in South Africa focused on psychotherapy for severe mental disorders and the mental health of healthcare workers. Thirusha’s current research focus areas include Health Professions & Health Sciences Education and Global Health knowledge production in the contexts of mental health and infectious diseases. Her writing appears in Academic Medicine, The Lancet, The BMJ and Advances in Health Sciences Education. She was the 2019 Karolinska Institute Prize in Medical Education Fellow.