Borah Brian F
Internal Medicine Resident, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1108 N. Damen Ave. Apt #2F, Chicago, IL, 60622, USA.
J Med Humanit. 2018 Dec;39(4):407-416. doi: 10.1007/s10912-018-9529-x.
In this article, the author explores a model of alternative medical education being pioneered at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. The five-year Global Health Fieldwork Fellowship (GHFF) track allows two students per year to complete an extra year of medical education while living and working in a free rural clinic in the jungle lowlands of Bolivia. This alternative curricular track is unique among other existing models in that it is (a) longitudinally immersive for at least one full additional year of medical education, (b) grounded in clinical and service learning, and (c) heavily focused upon global health and the social components of medicine. Studies have shown that both longitudinal alternative medical curricular tracks and short-term global health electives have long-term benefits upon the professional development of participants, suggesting that the GHFF is likely to do the same. The author also argues that the GHFF is an advantageous model of global health education compared to standard offerings and provides a unique curricular model by which to foster the development of social values-such as professionalism, advocacy, and social justice-that are widely considered lacking in today's medical education.
在本文中，作者探讨了芝加哥洛约拉大学斯特里奇医学院开创的一种替代医学教育模式。为期五年的全球健康实地考察奖学金（GHFF）项目每年允许两名学生在玻利维亚丛林低地的一家免费乡村诊所生活和工作的同时，额外完成一年的医学教育。这种替代课程模式在其他现有模式中独树一帜，因为它（a）在医学教育中至少有整整额外一年的纵向沉浸式体验，（b）以临床和服务学习为基础，（c）高度专注于全球健康和医学的社会组成部分。研究表明，纵向替代医学课程模式和短期全球健康选修课程对参与者的职业发展都有长期益处，这表明全球健康实地考察奖学金项目可能也会如此。作者还认为，与标准课程相比，全球健康实地考察奖学金项目是一种有利的全球健康教育模式，并提供了一种独特的课程模式，以此促进社会价值观的发展，如专业精神、倡导和社会正义，而这些价值观在当今医学教育中普遍被认为是缺失的。
