Global Health Experiential Education

Download or read book Global Health Experiential Education written by Akshaya Neil Arya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and anyone involved in training and international exchanges across North America.