International Activities
Students enrolled in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program may opt to include an international experience within their undergraduate education. The program supports a number of diverse international opportunities from which students may gain insight into healthcare issues around the world. Students are strongly advised to become familiar with the range of options open to them, in order to determine which opportunities best meet their needs.
Students thinking of participating in international healthcare activities can find information relating to current healthcare issues on the following websites:
This site offers a perspective on a multitude of global issues and has numerous relevant external links to news articles, research papers, various non-governmental organizations, as well as multinational bodies.
Juxtaposition is a journal published semi-annually (September and February) in association with the Centre for International Health at the University of Toronto. It explores essential health issues, with a special emphasis on those topics that particularly impact the poor and the marginalized internationally. Juxtaposition seeks to include contrasting perspectives on global health issues in a wider social, economic, political and legal context. The magazine presents an eclectic mix of articles and narratives that reflect the complexity and contradictions of global health issues, and aims to highlight the ongoing global health research and initiatives of the University of Toronto community.
An online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The site covers critical public health issues from around the world.
Additional Issues to be Considered:
