Coupet Sidney
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Program, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA.
J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2012 Dec;112(12):800-4.
An international health elective (IHE) can be an important component of the medical education and professional development of a physician. It provides essential global health skills that are crucial in a globalized society. Graduate medical education has an opportunity to deliver such skills to our health care workforce while addressing the pending workforce shortage and the uneven distribution of primary care physicians across the United States. Currently, there is a call for graduate medical education programs to create more training sites and to undergo reform that will help fill residency slots and train more primary care physicians. The author proposes that graduate medical education programs incorporate international health electives into their accredited residency programs. This addition could potentially strengthen their programs while making them more appealing to qualified candidates.
国际健康选修课程（IHE）可以成为医生医学教育和职业发展的重要组成部分。它提供了在全球化社会中至关重要的基本全球健康技能。毕业后医学教育有机会为我们的医疗保健人员提供此类技能，同时解决即将出现的劳动力短缺问题以及美国初级保健医生分布不均的问题。目前，人们呼吁毕业后医学教育项目创建更多培训地点并进行改革，以帮助填补住院医师职位空缺并培养更多初级保健医生。作者提议毕业后医学教育项目将国际健康选修课程纳入其经认可的住院医师培训项目中。这一新增内容有可能加强这些项目，同时使其对合格候选人更具吸引力。
