Information on Overseas Medical Opportunities

1. Where to start?

During your 3^rd year rotations, identify a region of the world you would most like to venture. Think about what type of work you would most like to do, and through what type of organization. Utilize the resources below to make contacts at various hospitals, clinics, etc. regarding possible rotations.

2. When should I contact the sites?

Consider contacting sites of interest at least 1 year from the anticipated rotation time. Many popular sites fill early from medical students worldwide. Err on the safe side.

3. Then what?

AMSA International Health Studies Center

www.amsa.org (click on Programs, International health, Non-AMSA, US-based International health options)

International Federation of Medical Students Association

www.ifmsa.org

• on this page you can receive contact information from various countries on the system

Student University Network for Social and International Health

http://cihen.cstudies.ubc.ca

• great planning worksheets and resources

International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC)

www.ihmec.org

US Embassy Homepage

www.embpage.org

• useful database to obtain diplomatic emails, addresses, etc in most countries
• http://travel.state.gov/ ; can assist in obtaining passport and visa information

World Fact book

www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

• complete nation profiles including political, social, economic and geographic information

• Projects to teach indigenous health care workers in addition to providing service

OpSmile: http://www.operationsmile.com/student_news/medstudents.html

• plastic surgery outreach projects

Project Concern: http://www.projectconcern.org/youcanhelp.html

- current medical projects in Guatemala and Romania

SIM International, PO Box 7900 Charlotte NC 28241-9000

(704) 588-4300 www.sim.org

• over 1,800 missionaries worldwide; opportunities on most continents

TEAM, PO Box 6969 Wheaton, IL 60189-0969

www.TEAMworld.org

• in addition to staffing hospitals, TEAM has 2-12 month programs for 4^th year medical students

World Gospel Mission (WGM) has Tenwek Hospital in Kenya

• staffed with volunteers from around the globe

CCURE PO Box 2323 Harrisburg, PA 17105-2323

(717) 730-6706 www.c2ure.org

• Organization started by an orthopedic surgeon providing care in various places in East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) with plans to expand to other continents

Christian Medical Dental Society PO Box 7500 Bristol, TN 37621-7500

2637. www.cmds.org

• Global Health Outreach: 1-2 week medical missions worldwide

Medical Missions International (MMI) PO Box 940207 Plano, TX 75094

(214) 437-1995 http://d-mitchell.tamu.edu/mmi/INDEX.HTM

- Medical outreach for 2 week projects worldwide

Mennonite Medical Association

• http://www.mennmed.org/mission/set.html

World Medical Missions (WMM) PO Box 3000 Boone, NC 28607

(704) 262 1980 www.samaritan.org

• Medical options for short/long term and emergency work

American Leprosy Missions (ALM) 1 ALM Way Greenville, SC 29611

(800) 543-3131

• Options available worldwide; often through London based program

Operation Serve International PO Box 18070 Fairfield, OH 45018

(888) 4-Serve-3 www.operationserve.org

• 10 day projects; 2001 projects to Egypt and Mexico

Development programs and emergency relief:

Medical Ambassadors PO Box 576645, Modesto, CA 95357

(888) 403-0600 medamb@ix.netcom.com

• short term medical options

MAP International PO Box 215000 Brunswick, GA 31521

(912) 280-6633 - general development work

• MAP-RDIF provides 3^rd/4^th year medical students, interns and residents overseas medical exposure in a Christian context providing 75% of airfare and other help. Contact RDIF Coordinator at crossen@map.org

Northwest Medical Teams International www.nwmti.org

• long and short term developmental programs

The Luke Society 2204 S Minnesota Ave Suite 2000, Sioux Falls, SD 57105

www.lukesociety.org

Search: www.africaonline.com - country specific search engine for Africa

Operation Crossroads

• multiple projects ongoing throughout Africa
• http://www.igc.org/oca/

Medical Centers of West Africa BP 382 Maroua, Republic of Cameroon

• hospital in northern Cameroon; mainly Muslim
• mcwafield@aiol.com

Kenya:

Tenwek Hospital, Bomet

• Christian affiliated hospital; 2 month rotations
• Email: tenwek@maf.org Fax: 011-254-036-22266

Kenya Medical Missions kenyamedicalmsn@webtv.net

Kapsuwar Hospital, Eldoret

• affiliated with the Africa Inland Church
• PO Box 130, Eldoret, Kenya; # (0328) 61501 or 61542

Karatina Hospital, Karatina

• excellent clinical experience
• Dr. Njugunu @ tumutumu@africaonline.co.ke

Malawi:

St. John’s Hospital

• contact Dr. Mzuzo: stjhospital@malawi.net
• 215 bed hospital in northern Malawi; excellent location

Swaziland:

Good Shepard Hospital – excellent website; complete

• http://home.ptd.net/~nwallace/section-1/information-gsh.htm

Tanzania:

University of Dar es Salaam, Faculty of Medicine, PO Box 65001, DSM Tanzania

- contact by mail can require an added bit of time

Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center kcmc@eoltz.com

• located in Moshi (south of Arusha) at the base of Kilimanjaro

Selian Lutheran Hospital, Arusha

• Contact Dr. Mark Jacobson
• http://www.augustana.com/Africa/Arusha.htm

Zambia:

St. Francis Hospital

• Email: stfrhosp@zamnet.zm Fax: 011-026-062-52278

Cairns Base Hospital

• Sandra_Perry@health.qld.gov.au

HMT International – Dominican Republic and Haiti projects

http://www.galaxymall.com/medical/missions/

Lucea, Hanover Clinic

• Rural clinic; 20 miles outside of Montego Bay
• Contact Tulane SOM; http://www2.tulane.edu/academics_sch_med.cfm

Costa Rica:

CPI Monteverde, Monteverde

• Medical professional language school with short term clinic options
• http://www.cpi-edu.com/medicalmont.html

Centro Medico Bethesda, Barillas, Huehuetenango province, Guatemala.

• clinic/hospital has hosted medical students from the UW for years. Affiliated with "Hands for Peacemaking"
• rural Guatemala; see UW FaMed file

Ak'Tenamit Clinic, Rio Dulce, Guatemala. Rural riverfront clinic

• 4^th year students; educational capacity instructing rural midwives and nurses. Contact Katy Mitchell, email: ktm@quetzal.net
• http://www.mayaparadise.com/aktename.htm

Hospital General de Totonicopan, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

• Full exchanges may be difficult here, worth checking out
• Rural teaching hospital, very welcoming of foreign students.
• Dra. Ana MarÌa AlegrÌa Paz (EM) works very closely with medical students. She can be reached at: 4th Ave 1-20 Zona 5 Colonia Molina, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, CA or Tel: 761.4935.

School of Medicine, National University of Guatemala; (USAC-Guatemala or USAC-Quetzaltenango)

• Two medical schools in Guatemala; both part of the national university
• One in Guatemala City; the other is in the slightly smaller, but much friendlier town of Quetzaltnenago.
• It may be possible to set up a more formal exchange with them via the School of Medicine. Tel: 476.0985; the school of medicine extension is 451.

Escuela Nacional de Enfermera de Occidente, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

• Not a medical school, but worth a try; serves many hospitals
• Dra. Patricia Estrada, 12 Ave 0-18 Zn 1; Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; CA; or call in Guatemala: 761.2449 or 761.3031

El Porvenir – work projects available in health and sanitation; flexible

• www.elporvenir.org or email: info@elporvenir.org

UW China Exchange

• contact Dr. Dan Hunt for further details

Delek Hospital, Dharamsala

• hospital serving refugee populations
• Dr. T.D. Sadutshang @ delek@dsala.tibet.net

International Health Care Development Program, Jamkhed

• http://www.eureka.edu/ihcdp/page7.htm

Senggo Christian Hospital, Wamena Irian

• Contact: Dr. Kenneth Dresser, PO Box 224, Wamena Irian, Jaya 99502

Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa City

• International student rotations available
• http://www.kameda.com/Education/serv03.htm
• http://www.kameda.com

Great general resource/web links (a bit commercial, but helpful):

• http://www2.planeta.com/mader/ecotravel/ecotravel.html

Amazon Medical Missions – a Christian medical outreach in the Amazon

http://www.tvs.com.pe/amazonmed/join.htm

Rainforest Health Project – 2 week opportunities in the Amazon

http://www.rainforesthealth.org/

Belize Rural Elective

• University of Wisconsin based program; great resource for contacts
• http://www.family.mcw.edu/Belize.htm

Andean Rural Healthcare

http://www.main.nc.us/ARHC/

Foundation for Integrated Education and Development, Napo Province

• www.funedesin.org

HCJB World Radio’s Hospital Vozandes, Quito

• short term clinical opportunities in various Quito clinics
• http://www.hcjb.org.ec/shorteams/clinics.htm

Kunde Hospital, Solukhumbu

• kunde@vishnu.ces1.com.pvp

Department of Medical Education, Kathmandu

• Dr. D.S. Pant @ mededuc@healthnet.org.np
• resource to identify available sites

Fiji:

Fiji School of Medicine

• open to taking medical students for various rotations
• Fiji SOM, Hoodless House, Suva, Fiji; (679) 311700

Erico Gruet, Dean of Medicine, Cebu Doctors College of Medicine

ebgruet@cdc-cdh.edu

• rural medicine opportunities

R. Arcadio, Dean of Medicine, UP College of Medicine

• many opportunities available
• deanupcm@epic.net

International Clinic, Ho Chi Minh City

• M. Mulder, MD @ mjmulder@hotmail.com

http://www.healnation.org/links.htm

www.mfinder.org/medicine.htm

www.christianmissions.net/search

www.sim.org

International Travel Health Guide, 8^th ed. Rose, Stuart.

Travel & Tropical Medicine Manual. E Jong, R McMullen (UW faculty).

• an excellent travel/tropical medicine resource

Where There Is No Doctor : A Village Health Care Handbook. D Werner, et al.

• inexpensive and covers many basics; Peace Corps necessity

Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. M Eddleston, S Pierini.

Funding:

• Creative Funding for International Health Electives - AMSA
• http://www.amsa.org/resource/amsarc/creative/creative.htm
• This is the best resource available regarding funding options and lists many of the programs below
• MAP/Reader's Digest International Fellowships
• http://www.map.org
• Pays 75% of airfare/travel expense
• Will help with placement (contact early)
• The James S. Westra Memorial Endowment Fund of the CMDS
• http://www.cmds.org then Search : Westra
• The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (for Baptists)
• http://www.imb.org/
• Ms. Brenda Moncrief, Program Coordinator (804) 353-0151
• The American Medical Women's Association's American Women's Hospitals
• http://www.amwa-doc.org/Foundation/awhs.htm
• The American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China (Taiwan)
• Annie Kang c/o New York Academy of Medicine 1216 5th Avenue New York NY 10029
• 212-860-1990
• The Paul Alexander Memorial Fund of Management Sciences for Health
• c/o Jean Alexander 1666 Coffman #220 St. Paul, MN 55108
• 612-647-1231 ; alexa019@gold.tc.umn.edu
• Funds an international public health project
• Global Health Ministries (Lutherans)
• http://www.ghm.org/
• The Charles S. Houston Award of the Wilderness Medical Society
• PO Box 2463 Indianapolis, IN 46206
• Wilderness and environmental medicine electives
• Partners of the Americas
• http://www.partners.net/English/indexeng.htm
• Any organization (like a church or ethnic organization) to which you belong
• Sister City Organizations
• Sister Cities International 120 South Payne Street Alexandria VA 22314
• 703-836-3535