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, assignments due each Sunday night, online meetings with course faculty, and 2 days of scheduled virtual-classroom activities and final exams. Please view the Course Syllabus.
Course Faculty
Paul Larson MD, MS, MBA, CPE, DTM&H, FAAFP
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).
