Keck-USC School of Medicine partnered with Global ENT Outreach to offer medical students in their third and forth years a unique opportunity to travel and learn. Thanks to the past efforts of Dr. Dennis Mull, M.D. from the Department of Family Medicine and Mrs. Linda Werner from the office of educational affairs, the program is open to students who wish to use their elective time participating in an international clerkship.
Students have joined us in Suriname, Peru, El Salvador, and Ecuador. The experience has opened doors to medical students, allowing them to see diverse ethnic cultures and medicine in the developing world.
Suriname, which is one example of a program, offers rotations in Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Family Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dermatology, General Surgery, and Emergency Room Medicine. Rotations in Suriname are conducted at the Diakonesseshuis Hospital, Academic Hospital, and in both government and private clinics under the supervision of the program's medical director. American students frequently participate in rotations with Dutch medical students visiting from the Netherlands.
The goals of this program are three-fold. First, to provide an exciting learning environment in a developing country where diseases such as Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Leishmaniasis give visiting physicians a unique exposure to the difficulties facing populations in developing countries. Second, to provide the opportunity to meet and work with professionals from other countries, such as the Suriname physicians and the Dutch medical students who are on rotations in Suriname. Third, to have hands on practical experience practicing medicine in a different unfamiliar cultural setting, where the experience has the promise of developing an appreciation, understanding, and insight into other cultures in the world, while at the same time enabling personal self development and appreciation for practicing medicine in a system with technological advances.
Students have joined us in Suriname, Peru, El Salvador, and Ecuador. The experience has opened doors to medical students, allowing them to see diverse ethnic cultures and medicine in the developing world.
Suriname, which is one example of a program, offers rotations in Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Family Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dermatology, General Surgery, and Emergency Room Medicine. Rotations in Suriname are conducted at the Diakonesseshuis Hospital, Academic Hospital, and in both government and private clinics under the supervision of the program's medical director. American students frequently participate in rotations with Dutch medical students visiting from the Netherlands.
The goals of this program are three-fold. First, to provide an exciting learning environment in a developing country where diseases such as Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Leishmaniasis give visiting physicians a unique exposure to the difficulties facing populations in developing countries. Second, to provide the opportunity to meet and work with professionals from other countries, such as the Suriname physicians and the Dutch medical students who are on rotations in Suriname. Third, to have hands on practical experience practicing medicine in a different unfamiliar cultural setting, where the experience has the promise of developing an appreciation, understanding, and insight into other cultures in the world, while at the same time enabling personal self development and appreciation for practicing medicine in a system with technological advances.
USC School of Medicine
