FEATURES
Local Health Care Informed by Medical Anthropology
We equip medical students with the skills to address health care challenges in local communities, with a dual focus on medicine and patients' life-world. Students will engage in anthropological fieldwork activities that emphasize cultural relativism. These activities help them gain a well-informed understanding of the cultural backgrounds of local community residents and develop competencies to address a wide variety of problems related to their lives and health.
Online Learning and Training Platform
We train students to become healthcare professionals who can practice and adapt to local situations. For this purpose, we take advantage of high-speed transmission technologies that enable real-time communications between local clinics and the university hospitals. These technologies can overcome physical barriers to learning. Our e-portfolio system is specifically designed for local health care and education and enables students to interact with each other and their supervisors, wherever they are. The passion and experience of near-peer educators foster medical students' commitment to local communities.
Peer- and Near-Peer-Assisted Learning
Community physicians provide excellent role models and resources for medical students to become leaders in community health. We offer online faculty development opportunities for physicians and other health care professionals in local healthcare institutions who support this program. This helps them align with the leadership of this program.
