A resident’s perspective on why global health work should be incorporated into family medicine residency training

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Abstract

Family physicians are well prepared to address global health issues. In this perspective a family medicine resident reflects on her experience working on a global health project in Guatemala and why this type of experience should be incorporated into family medicine residency training.

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Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): FMCH

Title: Family Medicine and Community Health

Abbreviated Title: FMCH

Publisher: Compuscript (Ireland )

ISSN (Electronic): 2009-8774

ISSN (Print): 2305-6983

Publication date (Print): January 2016

Publication date (Electronic): February 2016

Volume: 4

Issue: 1

Pages: 53-54

Affiliations

[1] ¹Family Medicine and Community Health, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Bolwell 1200, Cleveland, OH 44107, USA

Author notes

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Sarah Sweeney, MD, Family Medicine and Community Health, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Bolwell 1200, Cleveland, OH 44107, USA, Tel.: +440-724-4225, E-mail: sarah.sweeney@ 123456uhhospitals.org

Article

Publisher ID: FMCH.2015.0150

DOI: 10.15212/FMCH.2015.0150

SO-VID: 5d98b939-18f9-4617-bed2-d528b38157c5

License:

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

History

Date received : 20 July 2015

Date accepted : 20 November 2015

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