COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Global Health Internship has a 100% practical focus to train interns in pre-medical and global health competencies from a community and public health perspective through practical and observational activities across multiple levels of care in public hospitals, community centers, non-profit organizations, and geriatric facilities. Each site includes a defined project and an objective evaluation. The program concludes with a publishable research product (letter to the editor or academic poster) aimed at submission to the Revista Hispanoamericana de Ciencias de la Salud (UH).
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The major learning objectives of the program are:
- Analyze access to health services and identify social/economic disparities a ecting
- equitable care.
- Participate in pre-assigned practical projects applying observational and quality-
- improvement methodologies under supervision and mentorship.
- Integrate public, community, and global health principles through observation of social
- determinants and preventive practices.
- Develop transversal competencies (intercultural communication, teamwork, critical
- thinking, ethics).
Student Outcomes
Upon completion of the Global Health internship, the student will be able to:
- Apply global health principles, collect/analyze field data using validated instruments, collaborate in interprofessional/intercultural teams, and
- Produce a publishable research product, in the format of a concise manuscript/scientific poster adhering to publication standards (APA 7, ethics, data protection) synthesizing internship findings and contributing to scholarly dissemination in the Revista Hispanoamericana de Ciencias de la Salud (UH).