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Professional Certificate Course in International Medicine & Public Health

Course Code: PCC – IMPH 903

Overview

Promoting health in a low resource and/or cross-cultural setting presents special challenges, and requires particular skills. This comprehensive course enhances expertise in diseases of poverty, low-resource HIV medicine, maternal-newborn health, clinical skills for low-resource settings, international public health, cross-cultural skills, disaster management, low-resource health leadership, and healthcare education. Academic credit earned is 10 credit hours. Sample the INMED learning experience with this 15-minute Free Demo Online Course.

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Competency Objectives

At the completion of the INMED Professional Certificate Course in International Medicine & Public Health, learners will be able to demonstrate using case-studies and simulation:

Management & prevention of the leading diseases of poverty
Management & prevention of HIV infection
Care for the health of pregnant women and newborns
Proficiency in clinical skills useful in low-resource settings
Skill in community-wide health promotion and death/disability prevention
Culturally appropriate healthcare
Proficiency in disaster mitigation and response
Design and implementation of team-lead healthcare interventions
Transfer of healthcare skills to other personnel

Time Frames

This Professional Certificate Course includes 8 weeks of structured learning and assignments due each Sunday night. Each week includes a required virtual class with the faculty for discussions, simulations, case studies and final exams. This weekly required virtual class may last up to 120 minutes.

Course Faculty

Nicholas Comninellis, MD

Paul Larson MD, MS, MBA, CPE, DTM&H, FAAFP

Micah Flint, MPA, RN, DINPH

INMED DIPLOMA OPTION

INMED highly recommends that the Professional Certificate Course in International Medicine & Public Health be complemented with a supervised clinical experience in international medicine, available throughout the INMED Professional Diploma in International Medicine & Public Health (DIMPH).