Integrating global health and medicine into the medical curriculum.

摘要: Broadly viewed, global health and medicine ( GHM ) is the study of health, illness, practice care in one culture order to bene® t another culture. Sometimes, international borders are crossed for other cultures. More often, changing locales within a country or even neighborhoods city enables encounters with people who speak different language, religion, eat foods engage seemingly strange medical practices. Until recently, predominant model was transport western, science-based disease practices scienti® cally unsophisticated cultures Mahler, 1997 ). This can be highly effective preventing infectious saving earthquake victims. However, it has become increasingly clear that models such as ideas from Chinese Indian religious spiritual support Wolff, 1965 ), may lead more intractable, incurable chronically ill patients constitute large part burden western countries Bandranayake, 1993 Here we present preliminary description what believe ® rst attempt teach distinct curriculum. We