Requirements
Requirements for the Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway are divided into three categories:
- Clinical Opportunities (both General and Immersive)
- Didactics
- Scholarship (Project and Presentations)
Clinical Opportunities
| Experience | Description | Credits |
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| HIV Training Track | Three-year track within the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program focused on HIV medicine | 10 |
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Collaborative Behavioral Health & Addiction Medicine in Primary Care (CHAMP) Training Program
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Three-year track with in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program focused on addiction medicine | 10 |
| Elective in HIV Care / Urban Health | Two-week elective based in a multidisciplinary HIV outpatient clinic | 10 |
| Home Visit Elective | Two-week elective focused on developing skills and comfort with conducting primary care home visits | 10 |
| Street Medicine Elective | Two-week elective focused on developing skills and comfort with providing care to homeless populations | 10 |
| Alternate Approved Elective | Must be approved in advance by the GME Office and GHEDP Leadership to receive credit | 10 |
| Community Care Van | Outreach/direct care program for early intervention and linkage to care for individuals in low-income neighborhoods | 2/session |
| Refugee Clinic (beyond required sessions) | Resident-run clinic that provides care to newly arrived refugees and links them to community providers | 2/session |
| Center for Asylum Medicine Evaluation | Participation in forensic medical evaluation of asylum applicants | 2/session |
| HAVEN Free Clinic | Student-run multidisclipinary primary care clinic for uninsured patients | 2/session |
| Experience | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholars Program | Six-week elective based at one of six partner sites | Required |
| Global Health Elective – New Haven | Four-week New Haven-based elective | Required |
| Indian Health Service or Grundy County, Tennessee Elective | Rural, domestic, cross-cultural experience in providing outpatient and/or inpatient care | Required |
| Alternate Approved Site | Must be approved in advance by the GME Office and GHEDP Leadership to receive credit | Required |
Didactics
| Experience | Description | Credits |
| Global Health Foundations Seminar | Weekly introductory seminar addressing key issues in global health research and practice | 2/session |
| Topics in Global Health | Weekly student-led, case-based seminar focusing on key clinical issues in global health. | 2/session |
| Critical Issues in Global Health | Weekly seminar focusing on the health of vulnerable communities in LMICs, including the politics and governance of global health, and low-cost solutions. | 2/session |
| Global Mental Health Program Seminar | Series of lectures focused on key issues in global mental health | 2/session |
| Global Health Night Out | Quarterly journal club/discussion sessions bringing together trainee and faculty discussants from different clinical disciplines/health professions around one topic | 2/session |
| Alternate Educational Session | Must be approved by CHEDP Leadership to receive credit | 2/session |
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Scholarship: Project and Presentation
| Experience | Description | Credits |
| Research or Curriculum Building | Projects may involve hypothesis-driven, mentored investigation or curriculum development related to ongoing global health activities | Required |
| Experience | Description | Credits |
| Conference Presentation or Manuscript Submission | May take advantage of local, national, or international opportunities for presenting scholarly work (poster or oral), as well as peer-reviewed publications opportunities in journals or MedEdPORTAL | Required |
| Dissemination Back to Target Community | Demonstrate an implementable plan for sharing scholarship results with the subjects of that work | Required |
| Communicating About Global Health | Global Health Night Out (Discussion Lead) or Op-Ed submitted for publication or Noon Conference (Global Health-focused) or Global Health Week activity (leadership role) | Required |
| Immersive Clinical Activity Presentation | Lecture presentation related to immersive clinical activity - focus on linking clinical case to global burden of disease | Required |