Undergraduate Medics

The Undergraduate programme aims to:

• Provide students with understanding and knowledge of global health, and opportunities to gain experience and develop their interests in the field.
• Challenge concepts of development, health and ideas of healthcare provision by studying different political, economic, social and health systems globally.
• Help produce doctors who are able to think critically and are flexible and responsive to patients from a wide variety of backgrounds.
• Produce resources for teaching medical students about global health and provide support to other institutions in implementing this teaching.
• Raise awareness of the importance of training doctors with a global, multicultural perspective on health and healthcare.

Courses on offer are:

• iBSc in Global Health
• Second Year Student selected Component
  
  

Advocacy activities include:

• Supporting undergraduate and graduate networks, such as Medsin and Alma Mata, campaigning for wider recognition of global health issues
• Collaboration with UK and overseas institutions involved in developing taught course and on-line teaching material for international health
• Publishing materials with colleagues in other universities about global health teaching in medical curricula, such as a recent paper in the Lancet

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