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Intercalated BSc in International Health
University of Leeds
Is it for You?
- Are you an undergraduate medical student?
- Are you interested in global health systems or working in other countries?
- Do you enjoy a challenge - something different?
How should we practise medicine in a world where half of the world’s population live on less than US$2 a day, one billion people go to bed hungry every night, a quarter of the world’s population never gets a glass of cold water, a woman dies in childbirth every minute, and the chance of a poor woman in the UK dying between the age of 35 and 64 is 1.6 times higher than her richer counterpart? Can we find a way to think meaningfully about our responsibility to the six billion people of the world?
All medical schools teach public health; on the Intercalated BSc in International Health we teach global health.
The University of Leeds Intercalated BSc in International Health is a year-long, full-time course for medical students across the UK .
The purpose of this programme of study is to provide medical students with an opportunity to explore issues of international health, health care delivery, and health policy.
We expect students to start to develop the critical and analytical skills to be able to assess, implement, and evaluate health and health care interventions in their forthcoming careers as doctors.
Our focus is on international health care delivery, and issues around the relationship between the public, non-governmental, and the private sectors in health care delivery.
The Department
The course is based in the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. This course builds on a strong tradition of learning and teaching in international health at the Institute.
The focus of the Nuffield Centre is on health policy and health systems in an international setting. Three Masters courses and associated diploma and certificate courses are managed by the Centre. Approximately 70 students are studying for Masters courses in Public Health, Health Management, Planning and Policy, and Hospital Management each year, with most students from low and middle-income countries.
Course Structure
Each of the BSc modules have been developed with a view to providing a rich description of international health, health care services, and health care policy in low income countries and resource poor settings and each builds on this to encourage the development of critical and analytical skills.
The modules on 'Communicable Disease Control', 'Health Care Systems' and 'Global Patterns of Non-Communicable Disease' provide students with the background knowledge they need to interrogate more problem based elements of the course offered in the 'Health Policy and Development' and 'Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health' modules.
The research methods module introduces medical undergraduates to quantitative and qualitative research methods relevant to international health by application of these methods to the solution of practical research problems. These problems will, for the most part, relate to the topic areas that each of the students have chosen for their research (Project A and Project B). The photo on the left shows a newspaper article highlighting research carried out by a BSc student that led to the introduction of a low-technology heater to keep babies warm after birth and help resuscitate them.
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Last updated on Monday 08 September 2008 at 18:55.
