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Evaluation of the UCLA Department of Medicine Malawi Global Health Clinical Elective: Lessons from the First Five Years
Hannah Shull
Hannah Shull
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Statistics Core, and Program in Global Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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Chris Tymchuk
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Statistics Core, and Program in Global Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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Tristan Grogan
Tristan Grogan
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John Hamilton
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Jodi Friedman
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Statistics Core, and Program in Global Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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Risa M. Hoffman
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In 2008, the UCLA Department of Medicine established a three-week clinical elective in Malawi, Africa, for Medicine and Medicine/Pediatrics residents. We sought to determine whether the elective resulted in improved medical knowledge, alterations in career trajectory, and whether the opportunity for the elective influenced selection of UCLA for residency. A 29-question survey was distributed to all graduates of the elective from 2009–2013. Surveys were distributed to 40 individuals, with 33 responses (82.5%). Thirty-one participants (93.9%) reported increased medical knowledge and 24 participants (72.7%) reported the rotation altered their career trajectory. Among the 23 residents who came to UCLA after the elective was established, 13 (56.5%) stated it had an influential role in their selection of UCLA for residency. The Malawi elective resulted in self-reported increases in medical knowledge, alterations in career trajectory, and has played an important role in attracting individuals to UCLA for residency.
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Financial support: This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational Science UCLA Clinical and Translational Institute Connections grant no. UL1TR000124.
Authors' addresses: Hannah Shull, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, E-mail: hshull@mednet.ucla.edu. Chris Tymchuk and Jodi Friedman, Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, E-mails: ctymchuk@mednet.ucla.edu and jfriedman@mednet.ucla.edu. Tristan Grogan, Department of Medicine Statistics Core, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, E-mail: tgrogan@mednet.ucla.edu. John Hamilton, Program in Global Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, E-mail: jhamilton@mednet.ucla.edu. Risa Hoffman, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, E-mail: rhoffman@mednet.ucla.edu.
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Gupta AR, Wells CK, Horwitz RI, Bia FJ, Barry M, 1999. The international health program: the fifteen-year experience with Yale University's internal medicine residency program. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61: 1019–1023.
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2.
Thompson MH, Huntington MK, Hunt DD, Pinsky LE, Brodie JJ, 2003. Educational effects of international health electives on U.S. and Canadian medical students and residents: a literature review. Acad Med 78: 342–347.
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3.
Miller WC, Corey GR, Lallinger GJ, Durack DT, 1995. International health and internal medicine residency training: the Duke experience. Am J Med 99: 291–297.
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4.
Federico SG, Zachar PA, Oravec CM, Mandler T, Goldson E, Brown J, 2006. A successful international child health elective: the University of Colorado Department of Pediatrics' experience. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160: 191–196.
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5.
Hau DK, Dipace JI, Peck RN, Johnson WD Jr, 2011. Global health training during residency: the Weill Cornell Tanzania experience. J Grad Med Educ 3: 421–424.
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6.
Drain PK, Holmes KK, Skeff KM, Hall TL, Gardner P, 2009. Global health training and international clinical rotations during residency: current status, needs, and opportunities. Acad Med 84: 320–325.
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UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2013. Life after Residency. Available at: http://www.imresidency.med.ucla.edu/fellowship.html. Accessed January 15, 2013.
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UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, 2013. Alumni. Available at: http://www.medpeds.med.ucla.edu/alumni.html. Accessed January 15, 2013.
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