Curriculum Topics
Topics |
MS 1 |
MS 2 |
MS 3 |
| Health care delivery systems (community needs, access, input on effects of health care delivery) and organizations involved in international health | X | X | |
| Epidemiology of preventable Disease worldwide - including global standards for healthcare | X | X | X |
| Survey Research Design | X | ||
| Women Issues and International health (circumcision, sex trade, child prostitution, Eastern Europe, Thailand) | X | ||
| Gender access to health care - depression/mammograms | X | ||
| Prenatal Care, maternal-fetal medicine, breast feeding | X | ||
| Reproductive Health | X | ||
| Violence and Health - Gender Issues | X | ||
| HIV/AIDS Issues: Epidemiological, Cultural, Social-Economical, and Political Factors | X | X | X |
| Travel Medicine clinics, CDC | X | X | |
| Wilderness Medicine | X | ||
| Infections in Immigrants from Developing Countries | X | X | |
| TB - in the international community; scope of problem in developing countries | X | X | |
| Immunization - expanded program for Immunizations (WHO) | X | ||
| Diagnostic Techniques without US technology | X | ||
| Antibiotic resistance | X | ||
| Medical Anthropology (i.e. Cultural competence in providing health care, here in Houston and abroad) | X | X | |
| Ethics and International. health care | X | ||
| Exploitation of Developing Countries, legal infrastructures | X | ||
| Public health and human rights | X | ||
| Relief Work efforts (refugee and disaster situations) - organizations and training and operation | X | ||
| Refugee Camps | X | ||
| Border Health/Health Care for Immigrants from developing countries | X | ||
| Native American Health | X | ||
| Nutrition/Malnutrition | X | ||
| Pollution (Environmental, bacterial infestation in food, mad cow disease) | X | X | |
| Waste water/Clean water - waste management | X | ||
| Diarrhea | X | X | |
| Orphans (Brazil) | X | ||
| International Adoption | X | ||
| Mental health (PTSD, torture/abuse, suicide) | X | ||
| International opportunities for US Medical graduates; | X | ||
| Infectious Diseases (Taxonomy, life cycles, epidemiology, pathology and pathogenesis, differential diagnosis, clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention) | X | ||
| Other diseases and conditions (Nutritional disorders, Environmental stress, Ectoparasites, poisonous and toxic plants and animals) | X | ||
| Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach to Clinical Syndromes | X | ||
| Laboratory Diagnosis | X | ||
| Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach to Clinical Syndromes | X |
For more information, contact:
Rosa Olvera
Academic Coordinator for International Affaris
Deparment of Family and Community Medicine
713- 798- 3640
rolvera@bcm.tmc.edu, or
Joe Workman
Office of Dean of Education
713- 798- 5285
jworkman@bcm.tmc.edu