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This Course is now available as a hybrid course. Click here for details.
Concern over healthcare for all people continues to grow, fueled by economic globalization, worldwide news coverage, and the ease with which an epidemic or disaster in distant lands can affect other nations within hours. There also exists a heartening sense of caring that motivates individuals to respond with compassion and action to those who are most in need.
Yet healthcare professionals who enter service in low-resource communities often discover that their education poorly prepared them to work effectively because:
- Health challenges are distinct. Malnutrition, unique injuries, and certain infectious diseases are common in low-resource communities, but they are rare in wealthier ones.
- Healthcare resources are minimal. Safe drinking water and adequate housing, let alone diagnostic technologies and specialty consultation, are rarely available in low-resource communities.
- Cultural context is challenging. Success in promoting health and combating disease requires an intimate understanding of human behavior, which often contrasts sharply from one community to another.
- Leadership skills are underdeveloped. Effective health intervention requires attention to community-wide needs and resources, team building, and strategic planning - concepts infrequently addressed in the education of healthcare professionals.
- Living and working in low-resource communities demands unique personal skills. Attention to physical health, emotional wellbeing, financial subjects, and family relationships is essential for long-term success.
| ENROLLMENT QUALIFICATIONS |
The Course is open to healthcare professionals and healthcare profession students in the fields that routinely diagnose and treat disease, including physicians, dentists, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, resident physicians, and students of medicine, dentistry, advanced practice nursing, physician assistants, and pharmacy. Participants are strongly counseled to attend the entire course to optimize its benefit.
| COMPETENCY OBJECTIVES |
At the completion of the INMED International Medicine Intensive Course, students in the context of a low-resource community will be able to:
- Advocate for literacy, economic development, and effective interventions to promote health and prevent death and disability
- Prevent, diagnose and treat the leading diseases of poverty
- Assure that healthcare interventions are culturally appropriate
- Design effective health interventions as part of a leadership team
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in relevant clinical skills
Graduates of the 2011 INMED International Medicine Intensive Course
| COURSE CONTENT |
The Course will address five particular bodies of knowledge:
- International Public Health - Those factors that most significantly impact health in low-resource communities
- Diseases of Poverty - The health conditions most frequently encountered in low-income communities
- Cross-Cultural Competency - Those skills necessary to effectively promote health in a new cultural context
- Health Leadership - How health care professionals can work in cooperation with communities to design and lead effective health systems
- Technical proficiency in performance of relevant clinical skills
| EDUCATIONAL COMPONENTS/METHODS |
Students in the Course will achieve the above learning objectives through the following educational components:
- Lecture presentations by expert professionals
- Case studies providing analysis
- Skill stations to develop technical facility
- Formation groups exploring personal application
| EVALUATION |
Assessment of student's performance will be based upon:
- Attendance and participation in all Course events
- Acceptable performance on examinations
| CERTIFICATION |
Students who successfully complete the course of study and who pass the final examination will receive the INMED Academic Qualification In International Medicine. Verification of the educational experience will be provided to the student's affiliated school or residency program. Those who do not pass the final examination will receive a certificate of attendance.
| COURSE DIRECTORS |
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Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine President, Institute for International Medicine - INMED |
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John O. Gibson, MD
Director of Global Health Education, John Peter Smith Family Medicine Residency, Ft Worth, Texas Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
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Nancy Crigger, PhD, ARNP
Associate Professor of Nursing, William Jewell College |
| HOST |
INMED - Institute for International Medicine
| PARTNERS |
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
- University of Kansas School of Medicine Department of Infectious Diseases
- Via Christi Medical Center International Medicine Fellowship
- University of Texas Health Sciences Center/John Peter Smith Hospital International Medicine Fellowship
| COURSE FACULTY |
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Pam Arlund, PhD, is the Director of Training at All Nations Family, Inc. During ten years living in western China she assessed the literacy needs of Sarikol Tajik speakers (25,000), and created a writing system for that language. She also developed a system to assist Uighurs (10 million speakers) learn English. |  |
Himal Bajracharya, MD, is an infectious diseases physician with the Infectious Disease Associates of Kansas City. Prior to this position, he served as Lecturer in Community Medicine at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, and as a clinician at Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals, Lucknow, India. |
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Alan Barber, DDS, is adjunct faculty at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and Director of International Healthcare for AT Still University. Dr. Barber is also Founder/Chairman of True North Missions, a humanitarian organization providing healthcare to indigenous people of Central America, and recipient of the 2006 Rotary Healthcare Professional of the Year. |  |
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, is president of INMED and board certified in both public health and family medicine. Nicholas trained in tropical medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and served four years in Shanghai, China, and Angola, Africa. Today he teaches public health at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |
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Nancy Crigger, PhD, ARNP, is an associate professor of nursing at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. For two decades she has lead volunteer medical teams to Central America, and has been published extensively regarding her insights into cultural, ethical and best practices issues related to international service. Dr. Crigger is also a member of the INMED Board of Directors. |  |
April Davies, MPH, is International Programs Manager at Water.org. April served in the Peace Corps as a water, sanitation, and rural health volunteer in El Salvador. As a public health student at Emory University's Center for Global Safe Water she conducted research in water, sanitation and hygiene in western Kenya. |
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Micah Flint, MPA, is Chief Programs Officer of INMED and a graduate of the Disaster Management program at Park University. Micah serves on the board of directors for Samaritan Emergency Medical Search and Rescue. |  |
John Gibson, MD, is Program Director of the International Medicine Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Health Sciences Center/John Peter Smith Hospital. He lived in Thailand from 1984-2004 training medical personnel and providing care for marginalized people throughout the nation. Dr. Gibson is an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) certified instructor. |
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Ted Higgins, MD, is a general and vascular surgeon at Research Medical Center. He has provided surgical care in the Dominica Republic each year since 1995. |  |
Joe LeMaster, MD, MPH (London), is an Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Joe and his wife Judy lived in Nepal from 1990-2000, serving at Okhaldhunga Hospital, the only medical care facility for 300,000 people, promoting maternal-child health, and conducting leprosy research. |
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Mani Mani, MD, is a graduate of the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, and trained in plastic surgery at the University of Kansas. From 1974-1995 he served at Medical Director of the Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center, University of Kansas Medical Center. |  |
Kyle McPhee, is a specialist and independent consultant in biosecurity and disaster preparedness. Previously, he worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), served as leader of Global Crisis Response at Heart to Heart International, and as Coordinator for Safety and Emergency Preparedness at Kansas City's Saint Luke's Hospital. |
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Scott A. Murphy, MD, is a board certified ophthalmologist and fellowship trained ocular plastics surgeon trained at the University of Oklahoma Dean McGee Eye Institute. He volunteers at the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission, providing eye care in the region of St. Louis du Nord. |  |
Cindy Obenhaus, RN, is a neonatal nurse and former director of the Maison de Naissance birthing center in Haiti, located in a community where infant mortality was before as high was 30 percent. Cindy is actively engaged in teaching neonatal resuscitation and management of obstetrical complications. |
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Laura Ralston, MPH, is International Programs Manager at Water.org. Fluent in Haitian Creole, Laura began her career living for two years in Haiti with the Maternal and Child Survival project of the Haitian Health Foundation. Today she applies her skills in developing water sources and treatment systems in eight developing nations. |  |
Michael Searcy is a Certified Financial Planner and President of Searcy Financial Services - a firm specializing in money management needs of medical professionals. He is an adjunct faculty member at the College for Financial Planning and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. For the last decade, Michael has traveled with medical mission teams to Guatemala. |
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Stan Shaffer, MD, is a neonatologist at St. Luke's Health System, in Kansas City, and a founder of the Maison de Naissance in Haiti - a modern birthing center and community health program. Dr. Shaffer is E. Gray Diamond Professor of International Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |  |
Anne Sly, MD, is Associate Program Director for the Research Family Medicine Residency and formerly of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Thailand medical relief project in association with Cornell University. |
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Todd Stephens, MD, DTM&H, is Director of the Post-Residency International Family Medicine Fellowship at Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Stephens served six years in Kenya and Rwanda. The Fellowship he leads today is designed to equip physicians with the unique knowledge and clinical skills necessary to serve effectively in developing countries. |  |
Spencer Stith, MDiv, MA, is Director of Faculty Recruiting for International Institute for Christian Studies. Prior to this he served three years at director of international activities of the American Academy of Family Physicians, seven years leading an NGO in Bulgaria, and several month coordinating relief for war refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia. |
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John Wilson, MBA, PMP, a native Kenyan, is on the business faculty of Park University and is founder of Hope Kenya International - a not-for-profit organization that collaborates with American institutions to assist families break the pervasive cycle of poverty by providing access to education, health and micro-financial. | ||
| COURSE SCHEDULE |
Monday, June 6, 2011
| 8 | Course Orientation & Introductions - Comninellis, Rolf | |
| 9 | Pretest - Comninellis | |
| 10 | Fighting The Diseases Of Poverty - Comninellis | |
| 11 | Low Resource HIV Care - Comninellis | |
| 1 | Chronic Disease Management - Stephens | |
| 2 | Tuberculosis - Stephens | |
| 3 | Malaria - Stephens | |
| 4 | Language Acquisition - Gibson |
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
| 8 | Nutritional Assessment & Management of Malnutrition - Sly | |
| 9 | Lower Respiratory Infections - Sly | |
| 10 | Vaccination, Nutrition & Well Child Care - Shaffer | |
| 11 | Management Of Common Childhood Illnesses - Shaffer | |
| 1 | Odontogenic Infections - Barber | |
| 2 | Oral Pathology - Barber | |
| 3 | Obstetrical Complications & Skill Stations - Gibson, Comninellis | |
| 4 | Obstetrical Complications & Skill Stations - Gibson, Comninellis |
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
| 8 | Water-Borne Diseases - Bajracharya | |
| 9 | Helmithic Infections - Bajracharya | |
| 10 | Personal Health of the Traveler - Bajracharha | |
| 11 | Evaluation Of The Febrile Patient - Bajracharha | |
| 1 | Ultrasound Techniques & Skill Stations - Gibson | |
| 2 | Casting Techniques & Skill Stations - Comninellis | |
| 3 | Essential Newborn Care & Skill Stations - Shaffer, Obenhaus | |
| 4 | Essential Newborn Care & Skill Stations - Shaffer, Obenhaus |
Thursday, June 9, 2011
| 8 | Acute Abdomen - Higgins | |
| 9 | Wounds And Surgical Infections - Higgins | |
| 10 | Exam Review - Comninellis | |
| 11 | Exam Review - Comninellis | |
| 1 | Burn Management - Suzanne Mitchell RN and Janelle Epp OT | |
| 2 | Clinical Diagnosis Of Ulcers And Tumors By Clinical Methods - Mani | |
| 3 | Clinical Diagnosis Of Joint & Spine Disorders By Clinical Methods - George Varghese MD | |
| 4 | Suture Technique - Mani, Reid Ecton MD |
Friday, June 10, 2011
| 8 | Gynecology topics - Gibson | |
| 9 | Injury Prevention & Management - Gibson | |
| 10 | Dengue & Yellow Fever - Gibson | |
| 11 | Application Groups | |
| 1 | Common Eye Disorders - Murphy | |
| 2 | Eliminating Preventable Blindness - Murphy | |
| 3 | International Medicine Exam - Comninellis | |
| 4 | International Medicine Exam - Comninellis |
Monday, June 13, 2011
| 8 | Course Orientation & Introductions - Comninellis, Rolf | |
| 9 | Pretest - Comninellis | |
| 10 | Fighting Diseases Of Poverty/Effective Health Promotion - Comninellis | |
| 11 | Health Leadership - Comninellis | |
| 1 | Disaster Medicine Management - McPhee, Flint | |
| 2 | Disaster Management Case Studies - McPhee, Flint | |
| 3 | Financial Planning For A Life Of Service - Searcy | |
| 4 | Financial Planning For A Life Of Service - Searcy |
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
| 8 | Health & Economic Development - Wilson | |
| 9 | Health & Economic Development - Wilson | |
| 10 | Promoting Community Literacy - Arlund | |
| 11 | Promoting Community Literacy - Arlund | |
| 1 | Movie "The God's Must Be Crazy" | |
| 2 | Movie Discussion | |
| 3 | Cultural Adaptation - Stith | |
| 4 | Surviving Culture Shock - Stith |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
| 8 | Water And Community Development - Ralston, Davies | |
| 9 | Potable Water Resources And Systems - Ralston, Davies | |
| 10 | Cross-Cultural Competency in Healthcare - Comninellis | |
| 11 | Language Acquisition - Fyffe | |
| 1 | Promoting Health Thru Community Development - LeMaster | |
| 2 | Community Health Assessment - LeMaster | |
| 3 | Training Health Workers - LeMaster | |
| 4 | Case Studies In International Public Health - Comninellis |
Thursday, June 16, 2011
| 8 | Building International Partnerships - Crigger | |
| 9 | Ethical Issues In International Medicine - Crigger | |
| 10 | Controversies In Short-Term Medical Missions - Comninellis | |
| 11 | Case Studies In International Public Health - Comninellis | |
| 1 | Application Groups - Comninellis, Flint | |
| 2 | Examination Review - Comninellis | |
| 3 | Comparative Health Systems - Flint | |
| 4 | Building Organizational Capacity - Flint |
Friday, June 17, 2011
| 8 | International Public Health Exam - Comninellis | |
| 9 | International Public Health Exam - Comninellis | |
| 10 | Choosing Your Path To Service - Comninellis | |
| 11 | Reception for Students and Instructors |
| CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT |
Physicians: The Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Missouri State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Institute for International Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 26 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity.
AAFP CME: This activity, 2011 International Medicine Intensive Course, with a beginning date of June 6, 2011, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 65.00 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
| PLANNING COMMITTEE DISCLOSURES |
| Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH | INMED President & CEO | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Donna Gum, BSN, RN-BC | Nursing Workforce Development, Truman Medical Center | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Micah Flint, MPA | INMED Chief Programs Officer & Continuing Education Director | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Ted Higgins, MD | General Surgeon at Research Medical Center | Nothing to Disclose |
Speaker Disclosures
| Pam Arlund, PhD | Director of All Nations | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Himal Bajracharya, MD | ID Associates | Speaker's Bureau for Pfizer | ||
| John Wilson, MBA | Founder of Hope Kenya | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Kyle McPhee, MS | Owner Frontier Emergency Management Consulting | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Cindy Obenhaus, RN | Former Director of Maison de Naissance birthing center | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Ted Higgins, MD | General Surgeon at Research Medical Center | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| John Gibson, MD | Faculty at John Peter Smith Family Medicine Residency | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH | INMED President & CEO | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Micah Flint, MPA - INMED | Chief Programs Officer & Continuing Education Director | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Alan Barber, DDS | Adjunct at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Nancy Crigger, PhD, MSN | Associate Professor at William Jewell College | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| April Davies, MPH | Water.org | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Joe LeMaster, MD, MPH | University of Missouri | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Scott Murphy, MD | Ophthalmologist | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Laura Ralston, MPH | Water.org | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Todd Stephens, MD | Via Christi Medical Center | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Stan Shaffer, MD | Saint Luke's Health System | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Mike Searcy | Searcy Financial Services | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Anne Sly, MD | Program Dir., Research Family Medicine Residency | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Spencer Stith, MDiv | Consultant | Nothing to Disclose |
| GRADUATES |
James Bradley, MD
Lori Cahill, MD
Timothy Cahill, MD
Jodi Cantrell, Medical Student
Esmeraldino Celestino, MD
Jeffrey Erickson, MD
Karen Fenstermacher, RN, MS, FNP
Colette Fleming, MD
John Fontenot, MD
Christopher Gifford, Medical Student
Naomi Grasman, MD
Johnny Griggs, MD
Raza Hasan, Medical Student
Anne Jason, MD
Myra Kemna, PA
Timothy Kubacki, DO
John Lewis, MBA, Nursing Student
Ngur Siam Lian, MD
Huy Ly, MD
Duc Nguyen, MD
Bjorn Nilson, MD, MPH
Edna Perez-Koury, MD, MPH, MPA
Trisha Persad, Pharm D
Laurie Pung, DNP
Princess Scutt, PharmD
Racquel Skold, Medical Student
Sara Thorp, Medical Student
Larry Van Vleet, Medical Doctor
Chase Webber, Medical Student
Cherri Whang, Medical Student
James Whitening, Nurse Practitioner
Jed Wilson, PharmD
Joyce Yong, MD, JD