IS 705TF OHSU Global - Tsuha Fellowship Field Experience

Credits: 4 to 8
The OHSU Global Tsuha Fellowship Field Experience provides a mentored global health experience which introduces medical students to the factors contributing to health and disease globally through the lens of experiential learning in conjunction with local professionals. Opportunities for medical student experiences are made available by way of the OHSU administered Tsuha Fellowship in partnership with The University of Western Australia. Currently, eight Tsuha Fellows live and work in low or middle income countries, i.e., current Tsuha Fellows are in Bhutan, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, the Seychelles and South Africa and Fellows could come from additional countries. This elective allows students to learn more about health care, public health and/or planetary health from local professionals living and working in countries which face remarkably different health challenges than one sees in the US. More broadly, the elective aims to deepen student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development goals so that they might be more culturally aware and effective practitioners after returning to the United States when they have opportunity to apply these life changing skills and better understand the global context of their chosen field. OHSU students will be closely supervised by the field experience course director, the Tsuha Mentor from UWA and from the in country Tsuha Fellow.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit