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UCL - BSc in International Health

Course Outline

The course is designed to give students an introduction to international health.

The aims are:

  • to gain understanding of health and the provision of healthcare in different countries and cultures worldwide
  • to understand the local factors that affect a population’s health and the global factors that link and shape health across the world.

The programme consists of 3 course units of compulsory modules, 1 unit of which is a project of the student’s choice. There is a further 1 unit of optional modules, including the opportunity to study a course elsewhere in UCL or at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Course Modules

Compulsory modules

  • International Health Policy (1 course unit)
  • Health, Poverty, and Development (½ course unit)
  • Conflict, Migration and Human Rights (½ course unit)
  • Project (1 course unit)

Optional modules Students must take either:

  • Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries (½ course unit) or
  • Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries (½ course unit)

The remaining half course unit should be chosen from another relevant UCL department, such as Anthropology, Geography, Economics or History of Medicine (½ course unit).

Entry Requirements

The course is open to any student, from any medical school, who has completed at least two years of a medical degree. All students studying at universities in the UK, European Union and other universities with which UCL has a partnership agreement may apply to take the full BSc programme.

For those students who study at other universities, the full one-year course is available, but students must register at UCL as affiliate students, and are not permitted to receive the BSc qualification. They will, however, receive a transcript of all courses they have undertaken that they can take back to their home university. It may also be possible for students studying non-medical courses to undertake the programme.

Contact

Vikki Pollit http://www.ihmec.ucl.ac.uk 0207 242 9789 x 2436

Last updated on Tuesday 01 April 2008 at 15:40.