Office of Advancement
Engaging the International Community
Overview
Outreach for medical students and faculty is not limited to local or even national endeavors. Students increasingly travel internationally to study in other countries. As part of an international clerkship or simply as volunteers, their work has them examining national public policy on health care reform in Germany or Belize, to traveling to Kenya or Ghana to work in a clinic or medical school, or going to Ecuador to bring supplies and provide care in hospitals, clinics, orphanages, and women’s prisons, as well as to street children, and to patients in convalescent homes. Students help to prepare themselves for these opportunities through language study and courses in cultural competence. These experiences are important not only to those that they serve, but to their own understanding of their professional role and the future of health care in a global society. The University of Illinois, through the College of Medicine in Chicago, has over seventy-five international affiliates for student medical study abroad. Notably among these are exchanges with the National University of Singapore; Kings College, London, UK; the University of Brest, France; and Ludwig- Maximillian University, Munich, Germany. |
 ‘Books for Belize’ medical student outreach project |
