International electives

What are you looking for? Third-world country, developed country, trauma, peds, preventive medicine, etc.?

You mentioned ID with the CDC. They only allow people doing their fellowship in emerging infectious diseases to do those kind of rotations.

JackBauERfan said:

I did a search and found some, but just thought i'd get some recent info.

Any cool international electives for EM residents? I guess even if they were cool as medical student electives...I'm sure some of those will have something set up for a resident too?

I'm pretty open to anywhere country wise,
it seems like australia would be an easy place to set one up, just not sure i want to do it there...

I tried to look for an infectious disease one with CDC, but couldnt find any specific information.

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i'm just a med student, but some residents at my institution went to Guatemala for a month and had a great experience. PM me if you want more info

you should check with your institution to see if they have any connections.
we also have an attending from Guyana, so there are always opportunities there for us. i'm going to Peru for the tropical medicine course in April. it's not really EM, but should help with my Spanish as well as recognition of tropical diseases/parasites.

there are lists of rotations available out on the web as well (some through EMRA international section i think)

good luck!

where are you going in Peru? I spent six weeks in Iquitos when I was in college working in an ED down there. Nice town, let me know if you're headed that way and I'll give you some tips.

jbar said:

where are you going in Peru? I spent six weeks in Iquitos when I was in college working in an ED down there. Nice town, let me know if you're headed that way and I'll give you some tips.

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mostly i'll be in Lima, but i'll have weekends free and potentially time at the end to explore more of Peru, depending on when i have to come back to reality and find a place to live. would love to hear your insight, feel free to PM me with recommendations...thanks!!

JBFan,
We just set up an all-expense paid elective to St. Martin. Seriously, they'll fly us there, give you an apartment and a car. You work at the ED on a 14-16 shift schedule. Pretty sweet.

It's brand new, though (just found out in January). So nobody's gone yet.

JackBauERfan said:

sorry not big on geography..where exactly is st. martin?

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French West Indies (Caribbean). Check out Belize. There are a number of well organized international rotations there. I was going to go on one but had to stick around NYC for my six weeks of elective instead. Let me know if you want more info.

yes more info please! when is it run?

JackBauERfan said:

I saw yale has a bunch of international programs "for their resident's" haha.

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That's not true. The Yale/J&J program also has allocated funds for non-Yale residents. Not sure when the deadline is for non-Yalies. http://info.med.yale.edu/ischolar

check out trauma.org. I found an international elective for med students that I went on to Jo'berg S. Africa. Spent the whole month in the ED and with the paramedics in the field (got to see some pretty crazy areas that a white guy from the US would never get to see normally). Not sure what they have for residents, but I did meet a Canadian EM resident working there so I know it is possible. Plus, they have a trauma bank at Jo'berg gen and do a fair amount of research if that interests you. Check it out.

lilm said:

Hey are you talking about the Gorgas Course for medical students that is organized between the UAB and Cayetano Heredia University in lima?. Well im a medical student from Cayetano Heredia currently helping with the regular Gorgas Course for physicians. Let me tell you is an excellent course. You are going to see a lot of interesting cases. For example in the 2 weeks since the beggining of the course we have seen(just to mention a bunch): Fasciolasis, sporotrichosis, strongyloidiasis,hydatidosis, miasis,leishmaniasis,HTLV-1 infections and co-infections, brucellosis,histoplasmosis,etc,etc.
The Cayetano Heredia Hospital recieves a lot of trauma patients from Lima North; gunshots wounds,knive wounds,car accidents,etc. You can check the ED anytime you like, and if you are really interested you could help there if you have the time.

Any question just PM me.

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I did an elective here as a 4th year medical student and it was a great experience. Definitely see things you would never see in the US. I did the infectious disease course but you still you have days where you do ER, derm, etc.
http://www.upch.edu.pe/Tropicales/

I have also done a medical spanish course in costa rica. I did the one in playa dominical. The teaching was excellent and got to learn how to surf too.
www.isls.com

Some other links for interesting electives.....(I have more but this is all I have handy at the moment). Some of the links may be out of date. If you are looking for something specific I may have a contact for you. I have a ton of saved international info. There is also a cool elective in Guam where they actually pay quite a bit of your expenses....dont have the link handy.

International Emergency Medicine Rotations Database

o http://www.ed.bmc.org/iem/search.cfm

· Costa Rica EM rotation
o http://www.swmed.edu/toxicology/InternationalRotations.html

· Belize/central America Wilderness Rotation
o http://www.unmc.edu/isp/newispwebpage/newstudyabroad/belizecoursedescriptions.htm

· US Wilderness electives
o http://www.wms.org/

· Advanced Wilderness Life Support Courses
o http://www.awls.org/pages/3/index.htm

· Governement Emergency Medicine Security Services
o http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept23614/files/93595.html

· Northwestern Wilderness
o http://nwu.asatte.org/wilderness/

· Peru – Tropical/infectious disease (this is what me and pauline did in med school)- also have an er, derm, other departments to rotate thru-most attending speak fluent English, need some spanish
o http://www.upch.edu.pe/Tropicales/index.asp

· Cruise Medicine
o http://www.vanterventures.com/CME.htm

· Himalayan Health Exchange
o http://www.himalayanhealth.com/expeditions.htm

· Hawaii Marine Elective
o http://home.comcast.net/~dmacias5/Hawaii.html

· Wilderness Elective in Pittsburgh
o http://www.wemsi.org/wems-rot1.html


Medical Spanish
· SALUD- Spain, peru, Mexico, Latin America – philly based company – some start any monday
o http://www.amerispan.com/salud_medical_spanish_programs/
· San Miguel, Mexico
o http://www.medspanish.com/id5.html
· Baja, Mexico
o http://bajacal.com/medical.html
· Spain, Mexico, Peru, etx
o http://www.donquijote.org/
· Malaga, Spain
o http://www.abanico-es.com/spanish/courses/08-spanish-medical-course.html
· Malaga Univ, Spain
o http://www.unispain.com/Malaga_University.htm
· Margarita Island, Venezuela
o http://www.cela-ve.com/spanish_language_school/spanish_medical.php
· Seville Spain
o http://www.linc.tv/cursos.html
· Costa Rica (Beach and/or mountains)
o http://www.isls.com/schools/medicalspanish.html

General Spanish Courses

· Chile/Argentina
o http://www.latinimmersion.com/front.htm
· Granada, Spain
o http://www.escuela-montalban.com/relaunch/en/courses/standard.php

Other Sites
www.ihmec.org
www.amsa.org
www.imva.org
www.reliefweb.org

I am leaving in 1 month to complete a second International EM Rotation in Panama. CHMAAM Hospital in Panama City has an EM residency program, and they are more than happy to take students. I completed an elective there between MSI & MSII and it was one of the best educational experiences I've had... Lots of pathology you're not likely to see, excellent faculty with great clinical and didactic teaching. If you are interested, let me know and I'll hook you up.

- R

SolisR said:

I am leaving in 1 month to complete a second International EM Rotation in Panama. CHMAAM Hospital in Panama City has an EM residency program, and they are more than happy to take students. I completed an elective there between MSI & MSII and it was one of the best educational experiences I've had... Lots of pathology you're not likely to see, excellent faculty with great clinical and didactic teaching. If you are interested, let me know and I'll hook you up.

- R

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Can you do this rotation as an EM resident to satisfy your elective? Did you have a good grasp of medical-Spanish or did you just learn some things while you were there?

dmitrinyr said:

Can you do this rotation as an EM resident to satisfy your elective? Did you have a good grasp of medical-Spanish or did you just learn some things while you were there?

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I'm not sure about Q. #1, although I have spoken to several programs I've interviewed with and they are all receptive about me returning during residency. I know EM programs with international electives make them work somehow.

I already was fluent in Spanish before going (It's my first language; I'm originally from Panama). Most of the faculty and residents spoke English fluently.

- R