GH Placement Requirements

The global health placement provides you with an immersive experience to apply your knowledge and skills in an under-resourced setting, or with a population experiencing marginalization. Through the global health placement, you will: 

  • Observe how to provide appropriate care in under-resourced health systems, and/or populations that experience marginalization
  • Evaluate your position as a medical trainee to understand how your position, experiences, and history affect your perception of and impact on under-resourced health systems, and/or populations that experience marginalization

Global Health Placement Requirements

The global health placement can be completed as an observership in 1st or 2nd year, or as a clerkship elective in 3rd or 4th year.
 
Observerships should be a minimum of 4-weeks in length.
Clerkship electives should be a minimum of 3-weeks in length.
 
Please note that you do not need to complete your placement in an international setting. Local observerships and electives in under-resourced settings, and with populations that experience marginalization will also count towards completion of the Global Health Placement. 
 
To complete your global health placement for the Global Health AEP, you will need to:
 
Prior to your placement:
  • Identify a global health placement
  • Coordinate with the host organization to plan your placement and identify a supervisor
  • Complete and submit the Global Health Placement Application Form
  • Complete all required UGME forms for observerships/electives
  • Complete the 2.0 Off Campus Activity Safety Policy (OCASP) Form 
  • Complete and submit a Placement Code of Conduct Form
  • Complete the pre-departure assignment
  • Attend pre-departure training (occurs annually in March)
After returning from your placement:
  • Complete a post-arrival reflection
  • Attend a post-arrival debriefing session
  • Present on your placement

You can find all relevant forms and documents in the private EdTech GH community once you are enrolled.