Global health in UK postgraduate medical training

All curricula contained numerous generic competencies for which a global health perspective could be advantageous, such as those related to caring for migrant or culturally different patients. [...]this lack of global health awareness in postgraduate curricula is addressed--eg, by development of a s...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2012-08, Vol.380 (9843), p.728-729
Main Authors: Hall, Jennifer, Brown, Colin S, Pettigrew, Luisa, Malik, Aeesha NJ, Watson, Jessica, Topiwala, Anya, McGregor, Laura, Ramsay, Robin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Career Choice
Curricula
Education, Medical, Undergraduate - methods
Education, Medical, Undergraduate - standards
Global health
Global Health - trends
Health care
Humans
Internal Medicine
Mortality
Public health
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Summary:All curricula contained numerous generic competencies for which a global health perspective could be advantageous, such as those related to caring for migrant or culturally different patients. [...]this lack of global health awareness in postgraduate curricula is addressed--eg, by development of a small number of core competencies common across the curricula--the UK will fail to deliver health professionals who are trained to deal with the global influences on health in an interdependent world,3 to be fully prepared to form global health partnerships,4 or to meet the UK's increasingly diverse future health challenges.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61404-4