Pre-Travel Orientation Session for Students Traveling Abroad
The GHI provides a pre-travel orientation session for students traveling abroad, including (but not limited to) MHIRT Scholars, Framework in Global Health Scholars, and AMS Summer Assistantship recipients. All are strongly encouraged to attend this one-day training session.
The orientation covers the following topics:
- global health basics
- personal health and safety
- vaccinations
- cultural issues
- practical advice for living overseas
- responsible conduct in research
Please see below for selected pre-travel training materials:
- The Practitioner's Guide to Global Health (strongly recommended; required for MHIRT Scholars)
- Pre-Travel Consultation, by Rebecca Reece, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, Brown University
- How NOT to save the world: Why U.S. students who go to poor countries to 'do good' often do the opposite
- During Your Global Health Elective, by Wayne A. Hale, MD, MS, MCHS Family Medicine Residency Program Greensboro AHEC, University of North Carolina Dept of Family Medicine
- Other CUGH Educational Modules