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Program Information:The Division of International Health is an important component of our residency program. We provide emergency medicine residents with state-of-the-art education in global health issues and tropical medicine through didactic lectures, case conferences, and our tropical medicine teaching cases. We have faculty mentors who have been fellowship trained in Global Health and others with training and experience in tropical medicine. Our faculty also have experience with organizations such as Medecins Sans Frontieres and DMAT. Residents are eligible to participate in department-sponsored educational trips and can participate in our Global Health Scholar program we developed with Hope Through Healing Hands. Our primary international partnership is at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana where we have developed an emergency medicine training program in conjunction with our partners in Guyana. One of our Vanderbilt faculty members, Dr. Nico Forget, is based in Guyana on a full-time basis.
Please read more about our Guyana program in the ACEP newsletter
 and in the Kaieteur News .Global Health Experience at Vanderbilt:Our goal is to provide our residents with the best possible exposure to global health and tropical medicine as they relate to emergency medicine. Our Global Health Scholar program allows our residents to teach and provide clinical care in Guyana and covers transportation and living expenses. We also work with residents to arrange other international rotations to meet their individual needs. For some, this might involve working in a rural ED in Guatemala while others might enjoy a more formal educational experience at a teaching hospital in Peru. In recent years residents have done rotations in Peru, Bolivia, Guyana, Haiti, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, St. Vincent, Vietnam, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Liberia, Zambia and Ghana among other places.
Global Health Scholar Program for Residents:The Division of International Health, with support from Hope Through Healing Hands, is proud to announce the Emergency Medicine Global Health Scholar Program. This program is available for our residents and fellows and provides funding for clinical rotations at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana. Residents and fellows chosen for the program have the opportunity to help with the local emergency medicine residency training program and are able to provide direct clinical care in this exciting and unique emergency department. Scholars are supervised by onsite Vanderbilt faculty members. Please click on this link for more information about this program. And please click here to read the blogs by some of our past participants.
Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship:We offer a two year fellowship in Global Emergency Medicine that is individually designed based upon the interests and career goals of each fellow. Fellows have options to complete a tropical medicine diploma course, MPH degree, or pursue other educational opportunities. Fellows spend between three to six months abroad each year working on a variety of projects. Please click here for more information about our fellowship program. Our Current Projects:GUYANA We have been committed to educational programs at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana since 2002 and are extensively involved in emergency care in the country. We have worked closely with the Guyana Ministry of Health, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Project Dawn and the University of Guyana in the development of an emergency medicine residency program in Guyana. This three year degree (MMed) granting program began in October 2010 and we now have seven residents in the program. One of our IH faculty members, Nico Forget, is based in Guyana as the residency director of this unique EM training program. Vanderbilt residents participate extensively in our programs in Guyana. KENYA Dr. Stephan Russ has been involved at Maseno Hospital in Kenya since 2007 where he has been piloting projects in social marketing for the purpose of optimizing health behaviors in infant care. He has also worked on projects assessing the efficacy of a helminth control project. Dr. Russ is leading our efforts to scale up our partnership with Children's Hospital, Boston, at this hospital. UKRAINE Our faculty and fellows have had the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities in Ukraine with Dr. Brian McMurray. Brian is a former Vandy faculty member and is the ACEP ambassador to Ukraine. We have had the opportunity to work with Brian on educational projects in Kiev, several mid-size cities, and rural settings in the country. ZAMBIA Dr. Jeff McKinzie has had a multi-year involvement in a program in rural Zambia that involves health screening and HIV counseling and care. His most recent abstract from this program was "Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of routine, opt-out HIV testing and counseling in rural Southern Zambia" which was presented at the Unite for Sight 2009 Global Health Conference.
 For more information about this program please contact one of the members of the Division of International Health:
Seth Wright, MD, MPH
Stephan Russ, MD, MPH
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