Global Health Experiential Education: From Theory to Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138236332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 338 str.

Akshaya Neil Arya; Jessica Evert

Opis

This book presents best practices for ethical and safe international health elective experiences for trainees, and the educational competencies and evaluation techniques that make them valuable. It includes commentaries, discussions, and descriptions of new global health education guidelines, reviews of the literature, as well as research. Uniquely, it will include ground-breaking research on perspectives of partners in the Global South whose voices are often unheard, student perspectives, and critical discussions of the historical foundations and power dynamics inherent in international medical work. Global Health Experiential Education is a timely book that will be of interest to academic directors of global health programmes any anyone involved in training and international exchanges across North America