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The ROUGH GUIDE to getting more global health in YOUR curriculum (Cont.)

where?

If you feel that global health teaching is missing from you medical curriculum… then change it!

There are several ways that it can be included:

  • Core curriculum – an awareness of the relevance of global health to all medical students is being increasingly recognised

  • SSMs/SSCs and

  • Intercalated BSc – allowing students to extend their interest

how?

Just follow these simple steps...

  1. Research! Find out what’s there now (see Uni website, course handbook, ask mates…)

  2. Make contacts – Why do it all yourself? ...get other students involved!

Use your Med. Soc and try to the issue on the agenda for staff-student liaison meetings

Use your BMA rep… this is exactly the sort of thing that they’re there for! And the BMA MSC (Medical Students Committee) has made a commitment to working towards more global health teaching… see M21C (Resources, below!)

If you can get lecturers keen, they can be really helpful – an insiders knowledge of the medical school and its workings can be invaluable… and you’ll probably find lots of them are keen.

  1. Get educated – use the resources below, and contact Rob or Tom at globalhealth@medsin.org

  2. Decide what you want to change! Core? SSM/SSC? BSc? All of them!?

  3. Make a plan!

Sounds simple, but if you plan you’re far more likely to be effective!

Think about: who to approach, how, when, etc… …and DO IT!

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Last updated on Saturday 07 October 2006 at 15:31.