Our goal is to incorporate an international, intercultural, and global dimension into the purpose, functions, and delivery of our medical education. These dimensions will enhance the quality of education and research by focusing on key issues specific to health education, making a more meaningful contribution to society in the area of medicine and healthcare:
- Medical Education Systems
- Differences in medical school curriculum
- Differences in residency and postgraduate training
- Tuition
- Healthcare Delivery Systems
- Differences in healthcare systems
- Shortages of specialists and healthcare personnel worldwide
- Differences in health economics
- Differences in health insurance systems
- Differences in remuneration and fees
- Differences in hospital systems and medical practice
- Disparities in healthcare
- International Public Health Challenges
- Emerging epidemics
- Infectious diseases
- Mental health
- Aging
- Obesity
- Addiction
- Health Ethic
- Aid-in-dying
- Abortion
- Birth control
- Infertility treatment
- Stem cell and embryonic research
- Organ donation and transplantation
Our Global Classrooms
Working with WMed faculty, bi-lateral online exchanges will be developed to integrate existing courses across two (or sometimes more) institutions that are geographically and/or culturally distinct. WMed’s Global Classrooms will place an emphasis on equity—both as a pedagogy and as an inter-institutional partnership—to provide a collaborative learning model and common benefits for students. WMed faculty will link online with a professor and their class in another region or country.
Together, students engage and develop joint projects over a continuous period. This collaborative learning will include discussing real medical cases and relevant global health concepts in a virtual classroom using available technologies. Furthermore, an optional component is an introductory videoconference—intended for students to socialize with their international peers and discuss experiences of being a medical student in different health systems and countries. Global classrooms will involve students in rigorous disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies and promote close and constructive engagement with students from different cultural perspectives.
Faculty
- One-month teaching opportunities with WMed faculty appointment
- Joint research and grant opportunities
Timeline and Coursework
- 5-6 hours of instruction per week required, credit not required; audited course
- Instruction designed to follow the competencies of medical ethics, humanities, and law
- 20 additional hours of medical observation throughout the program including labs, research labs, ambulatory or hospital clinics, hospital service, migrant and immigrant healthcare, focus/interest group healthcare, screening clinics
- Spring 2025
- 40 students
- 2 countries
- Independent programming
- 4 weeks
- Spring 2026
- 80 students
- 2-3 countries
- Independent and/or exchange opportunities
- 8 weeks
- Spring 2027
- 100 students
- 4-5 countries
- Independent and/or exchange opportunities
- 8 weeks