Courses
Professional Qualification Course in Essentials for General Practitioners
Protecting health in a low resource and/or cross-cultural setting presents special challenges, and requires particular skills. This course enhances expertise in diseases of poverty, common medical emergencies, wound care, chronic disease management, disaster management, and maternal-newborn health. At the completion of the INMED Professional Qualification Course in Essentials for General Practitioners in Impoverish Settings, …
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Professional Qualification Course in Obstetrics Ultrasound
Obstetrics care requires critical information about the mother and baby. Ultrasound is an essential technology to supply such vital information. This course develops skills in early pregnancy ultrasound (confirmation, location) and third trimester ultrasound (parity, pulse, pocket, placenta, presentation, postpartum evaluation). This course requires that participants already have attained basic obstetrics skills and experience. …
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Professional Qualification Course in International Faculty Physician Development
Faculty physicians require special skills in teaching, guiding, and evaluating their students and learners. International physicians require special understanding of differing health systems, unusual diseases, and foreign cultures and languages. International faculty physicians must be prepared to overcome all these challenges together. This course will introduce and equip Chinese physicians for esteemed careers as international …
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Professional Qualification Course in Hands-On Skills for Low-Resource Healthcare
Provision of medical care in low-resource settings is extremely challenging. This is especially true for healthcare professionals accustomed to an abundance of consultants, diagnostics, imaging, medications, and interventions. This course will provide learners a review of mostly commonly needed essential clinical skills. Included are hands-on skills sessions covering wound care and suturing, extremity trauma and …
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Professional Qualification Course in Essential Care for Every Baby and Small Babies (Essential Newborn Care 2)
Every baby requires warmth, hygiene, umbilical cord care, eye care, early and exclusive breastfeeding, and proven-effective medications and immunizations. But many babies around the world go without. The INMED Professional Qualification Course in Essential Care for Every Baby and Small Babies Helping Babies (ECEB-ECSB Master Trainer Course) is an evidence-based educational program to prepare learners to teach …
Diploma Service-Learning
Overview INMED cooperates with health facilities around the world to provide INMED learners with exceptional, supervised service and learning experiences. Within this context, INMED learners enjoy the opportunity to develop judgment and expertise as they apply principles into actual practice. Selection of INMED Service-Learning Sites is made with attention to safety, accessibility, instructor credentials, ease of …
International Healthcare Ethics Course
Healthcare as a profession has inherent underlying and often inadequately examined ethical assumptions and principles from which ethical decisions are made. In the US, nearly all health-care professionals are taught at least the four basic principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. In the diverse international context and among some populations within the US, these …
Scholarly Project
An INMED Scholarly Project is the capstone requirement for the Professional Master’s Degree in International Health (MIH). MIH learners will select, design, and develop a scholarly project relevant to their career interests. An appropriate INMED faculty will be assigned to assist the learner with each step of the process, guiding the learner through project completion. …
MIH Service-Learning
Overview INMED cooperates with health facilities around the world to provide INMED learners with exceptional, supervised service and learning experiences. Within this context, INMED learners enjoy the opportunity to develop judgment and expertise as they apply principles into actual practice. Selection of INMED Service-Learning Sites is made with attention to safety, accessibility, instructor credentials, ease of …
Self-Care for the Health Professional Course
This course gives the learners the tools and skills needed to live a mitigate burnout, reclaim their passions, and live a balanced health lifestyle. The healthcare profession is a physically, mentally, and spiritually demanding profession. The current healthcare environment, operating systems, and moral dilemmas are some of the causes of the increased rates of professional …
Healthcare for Marginalized Americans Course
Many people live on the margins of United States society due to race, language, ethnicity, income, immigration status, and more. The United States is distinct from other developed countries in that there is no single national health care system that provides access for all of its inhabitants. Also notable in the US is the relative …
International Health Professions Education Course
Progress in health requires skilled personnel who can apply the appropriate knowledge and resources on behalf of people in need. But intentional transfer of such skill from one healthcare professional to another is frequently inadequate and inefficient. The purpose of this International Health Profession Education course is to equip healthcare educators with concepts and methods …
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Healthcare Leadership and Management Course
Global health systems are under tremendous pressure worldwide. Pandemics, the brain drain of health professionals from resource-limited countries, and unprecedented financial constraints are just a few issues that drive the need for constant change. Leadership by professionals with skills in administration, communication, clinical care and public health are vital to a healthy future. This course …
International Refugee Care Course
Today’s world has more international refugees seeking relief and asylum than at any time since the end of WWII. Eighty-six percent of refugees are hosted in developing countries, severely straining existing social infrastructures. This course will introduce the principles of international refugee care, including the four recognized phases: pre-emergency/mitigation phase, emergency phase, post-emergency/maintenance phase, and …
Introduction to Epidemiology Short Self-Paced Course, 2nd Edition
Epidemiology originates from Hippocrates’ observation more than 2000 years ago that environmental factors influence the occurrence of disease. However, it was not until the 19th century that the distribution of disease in specific human population groups was measured to any large extent. This work marked not only the formal beginnings of epidemiology but also some …
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Measuring Health and Disease Short Self-Paced Course, 2nd Edition
Objective measurements of health and disease are fundamental to the practice of epidemiology. To this end, a variety of measures of morbidity and disability are used to characterize the overall health of populations. But population health status is not fully measured in many parts of the world, and significant gaps remain even in high resource …
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Epidemiology Studies Short Self-Paced Course, 2nd Edition
Trustworthy epidemiology relies upon reputable scientific studies. Choosing the appropriate study design is a crucial step in an epidemiological investigation. Each study design has strengths and weaknesses, and epidemiologists must consider all sources of bias and confounding, and strive to reduce them. Throughout such research ethical issues must be carefully considered, as in other scientific …
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