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International Health Track

Houston, Texas

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International Health Track
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Curriculum Topics

Topics
MS 1
MS 2

MS 3
MS 4

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