Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, US.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
Ann Glob Health. 2020 Mar 6;86(1):27. doi: 10.5334/aogh.2665.
At a time of global interconnectedness, the internationalization of medical education has become important. Anatomy as an academic discipline, with its close connections to the basic sciences and to medical education, can easily be connected with global health and internationalization of medical education. Here the authors present an international program based on a partnership between twelve anatomy departments in ten countries, on four continents. Details of a proposed plan for the future direction of the program are also discussed.
The aim is to improve global healthcare by preparing future global healthcare leaders via early international networking, international collaboration and exchange, intercultural experience, and connecting two seemingly distant academic disciplines - anatomy and global health - via internationalization of medical education.
Based in the anatomy course, the program involved early international collaboration between preclinical medical and dental students. The program provided a stepwise progression for learning about healthcare and intercultural topics beyond pure anatomy education - starting with virtual small groups of international students, who subsequently presented their work to a larger international audience during group videoconferences. The above progressed to in-person visits for research internships in the basic sciences within industrialized countries.
Students appreciated the international and intercultural interaction, learned about areas outside the scope of anatomy (e.g., differences in healthcare education and delivery systems, Public and Global Health challenges, health ethics, and cultural enrichment), and valued the exchange travel for basic sciences research internships and cultural experience.
This unique collaboration of international anatomy departments can represent a new role for the medical anatomy course beyond pure anatomy teaching - involving areas of global health and internationalization of medical education - and could mark a new era of international collaboration among anatomists.
在全球互联互通的时代，医学教育的国际化变得尤为重要。解剖学作为一门与基础科学和医学教育密切相关的学科，很容易与全球健康和医学教育国际化联系起来。本文作者介绍了一个基于 10 个国家 12 个解剖学系之间合作的国际项目，该项目涉及四大洲。本文还讨论了该项目未来计划的详细内容。
通过早期的国际网络、国际合作与交流、跨文化体验，以及通过医学教育的国际化将看似遥远的两个学术学科——解剖学和全球健康联系起来，为未来的全球医疗保健培养全球医疗保健领导者，从而改善全球医疗保健。
该项目以解剖学课程为基础，涉及临床前医学和牙科学生之间的早期国际合作。该项目为学生提供了一个学习医疗和跨文化主题的逐步过程，超越了纯粹的解剖学教育——从虚拟的国际学生小组开始，随后在小组视频会议上向更大的国际受众展示他们的工作。在此基础上，学生们可以前往工业化国家进行基础科学研究实习的实地访问。
学生们欣赏国际和跨文化的互动，了解解剖学以外的领域（例如，医疗保健教育和提供系统、公共和全球健康挑战、健康伦理和文化丰富），并重视交换旅行，以进行基础科学研究实习和文化体验。
国际解剖学系的这种独特合作，可以为医学解剖学课程在纯粹的解剖学教学之外提供一个新的角色——涉及全球健康和医学教育国际化领域——并可能标志着解剖学家之间新的国际合作时代的到来。
