Foreign-exchange program for doctors improves clinical skills here and abroad
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They describe the program as bi-directional: The Providence Global and Domestic Engagement department sponsors family medicine residents from across Providence���s seven-state health system to gain skills not available in the U.S. context to practice at the Mangochi District Hospital in Malawi. Meantime, family medicine registrars from Malawi's Kamuzu University of Health Sciences travel to Seattle for training not available in the Malawian context at the Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency. Splitting their time between the two locations are faculty members Anna McDonald, M.D., and Jacob Nettleton, M.D.
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The goal: Address global health inequity.
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We examine a macro view of what happens when there's a collaboration and a sharing of human resources, building bidirectional medical rotations, and where learners are teachers and teachers are learners.
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Additional Information:
Global & Domestic Engagement | Community Partnerships | Providence
Global & Domestic Engagement | Capacity Sharing in Malawi | Providence�� ��(.pdf)
Malawi Global Health Program | Swedish Family Medicine Residency
Wonca ��� Global Family Doctors
AfriWon ��� Africa chapter of Wonca
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