MASTER'S IN
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Elective Courses
Customize your Master’s in International Health through elective coursework aligned with your professional interests, career goals, and concentration area.
MIH learners will complement and focus their educational experience by selecting for elective credit from INMED relevant to their career aspirations. Some courses, such as Emergency Pandemic Control, are eight weeks of active online learning and virtual-classroom, while others, including Ultrasound for Primary Care, have both a five-hour self-paced online section and one-day in-person section. MIH elective credits must total at least 9 credit hours.
3 Credit Hour Courses
1 Credit Hour Courses
ACC – EPC 701 | $1,050
About this Course
Rapidly increasing international trade and travel predictably increases the likelihood of rapid transmission of infectious diseases. The devastation caused by the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic and the worldwide alarm prompted by the 2004 SARS epidemic provide important insights into today’s concerns surrounding COVID-19. This course emphasizes objective investigation to identify evidence-based answers to critical questions, including identifying the infectious agent, the mode of transmission, incubation period, and effective modalities for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. This course also highlights how communicable disease control often requires deliberate intervention to address special ethical challenges: disease-associated racism, resistance to local and international cooperation, and extreme stress placed upon low-resource health systems.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the Communicable Disease Control Course, participants will be able to demonstrate using case-studies and simulation:
- Long-range mitigation of risk factors associated with communicable diseases.
- Effective measures to investigate causes of communicable diseases.
- Reliable communicable disease control interventions
ACC – IRC 702 | $1,050
About this 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 the resolution/repatriation phase. Throughout these phases, refugee care leaders must attend to complex issues over security, dependency, mental health, location of settlements, and host-refugee relationships.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the International Refugee Care Course, learners will be able to demonstrate using case-studies and simulation:
- Describe the scope of the worldwide refugee crisis
- Identify the basic issues involved in meeting the needs of refugees
- Design comprehensive refugee care interventions for specific populations
- Explain crisis resolution alternatives
ACC – HLM 703 | $1,050
About this 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 will provide several frameworks for understanding and approaching change. It will introduce tools to use in implementing sustainable and evidence-based organizational change in resource-rich and resource-limited situations. Focused study will include reading, discussion, application exercises and professional reflective writing.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the Healthcare Leadership and Management Course, participants will be able to demonstrate using case-studies, active discussion, and reflective writing:
- Application of effective change principles to the movement of people and processes toward a new vision.
- Demonstrate understanding of the differences in global health work in resource-limited settings and the individual patient centered models of care used in many resource-rich locations.
- Acquisition of new partnership and collaboration skills necessary for bringing about lasting global health changes in resource-limited settings.
ACC – IHPE 704 | $1,050
About this Course
Progress in health requires skilled personnel who can apply the appropriate knowledge and resources on behalf of people in need. But the intentional transfer of such skill from one healthcare professional to another is frequently inadequate and inefficient. The purpose of this in International Health Professions Education Course is to equip healthcare educators with concepts and methods of effective learning and teaching that will improve their ability to equip national healthcare professionals to carry forward progress in health.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the International Health Professions Education Course, participants will be able to demonstrate using case-studies, active discussion, and reflective writing:
- Express the importance of skill transfer and empowerment.
- List modalities to enhance effective learning. Assessment.
- List principles of effective teaching.
- Describe evaluation of learning outcomes.
- Explain the principles of instructional design.
ACC – HMA 705 | $1,050
About this 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 lack of attention to social needs that are so vital to health. As a result, marginalized people are frequently unable to access essential health care. This course explores the complex patchwork of ingredients which comprise United States health care systems, with special attention its deficiencies for marginalized people. The profound impact of social determinants of health are examined. Health resources are evaluated. Obstacles to care are identified, along with “work around” solutions commonly used by marginalized people. Existing and potential solutions to the healthcare dilemma for US marginalized people are explored. Course participants are challenged to advocate for a more equitable US health care system.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the INMED Healthcare for Marginalized Americans Course, learners will be able to demonstrate using analysis, case-studies and simulation the:
- Comprehension of the obstacles and resources which exist for US marginalized people in accessing health care
- Skills to improve the individual care of marginalized people which arise from an approach of cultural humility.
- Effective strategies for addressing the social determinants of health in the lives of marginalized people.
ACC – SCHP 706 | $1,050
About this Course
This course gives the learners the tools and skills needed to live a healthy lifestyle. Health professionals are susceptible for neglecting their own care for the service of others. This leads to unhealthy habits, physical and emotional neglect, compassion fatigue, and ultimately will have a direct affect on the personal and professional life of the health professional. This course aims at promoting the well-being of health professionals through education and behavior change that promotes a healthy lifestyle.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the Self-Care for the Health Professional Course, participants will be able to demonstrate using case-studies, active discussion, and reflective writing:
- Complete a personal health status analysis.
- Analyze one’s personal health assessments.
- Develop a personal health plan that addresses nutrition, stress reduction, sleep hygiene, community and activity.
- Implement behavior change models into one’s personal health plan.
ACC – IHE 707 | $1,050
About this 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 principles are sometimes not assumed. In this course learners will first focus on Western ethical principles and then broaden the perspective by critiquing these Euro-American ethical perspectives by looking at bioethics from the perspective of other cultural approaches – voices from within the US and internationally. An anthropological approach will be introduced. The questions surrounding a universal morality, moral status and obligation, individualism and communalism, public good and individual freedom, globalism vs “statism”, etc. will be explored. Course graduates will gain an understanding of the breadth of cultural complexity from which ethical decision-making occurs in an international context. In the final essay, there will be the opportunity to take a particular case from an international context and apply the principles learned.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the International Healthcare Ethics Course, participants will be able to demonstrate using case-studies, active discussion, and reflective writing:
- Western principles of ethics related to healthcare
- Complexities of healthcare ethics in the non-Western international cultural context
- Analytical skills to understand and speak into ethical issues across culture
PQC - USPC 801 | $450
About this Course
Quality medical care in low-resource settings is often hampered by lack of objective clinical information. ultrasonography is a useful technology in such settings, providing vital data to support patient care decision-making. This course enhances performance and interpretation for ultrasonography of carotid, thyroid, heart, lung, aorta, abdomen, urinary tract, DVT screening, joint and venous access, and eFAST exam.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of the Professional Qualification Course in Ultrasound for Primary Care, learners will be able to:
- Apply the basic principles of ultrasonography to clinical settings
- Perform basic ultrasonography of carotid, thyroid, heart, aorta, abdomen, urinary tract, DVT screening, and joint and venous access
- Interpret basic ultrasonography of carotid, thyroid, heart, aorta, abdomen, urinary tract, DVT screening, and joint and venous access
- Perform eFAST (Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma) Exams
- Interpret eFAST (Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma) Exams
PQC – OBUS 806 | $550
About this Course
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.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Confirm early pregnancy diagnosis and location
- Identify common gynecological pathology
- Identify the 6 Ps of late pregnancy: parity, pulse, pocket, placenta, presentation, postpartum evaluation
PQC – HSLH 805 | $450
About this Course
The INMED Professional Qualification Course in Hands-On Skills for Low-Resource Healthcare is designed to provide learners a review of most commonly needed clinical skills in settings with a shortage of specialists. Included are hands-on sessions covering wound care and suturing, extremity trauma and immobilization, complicated obstetrics, newborn resuscitation, tropical fever evaluation, and community health survey techniques.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to demonstrate:
- Wound evaluation and urgent management including repair
- Extremity trauma evaluation and management including immobilization
- Tropical fever evaluation and management
- Management of common obstetrics complications
- Newborn resuscitation techniques
- Community health survey techniques
PQC – HBB 802 | $500
About this Course
The INMED Professional Qualification Course in Helping Babies Breathe (HBB Master Trainer Course, 2nd Edition), is an evidence-based program to teach basic neonatal resuscitation techniques in low-resource locations, developed on the premise that straightforward newborn care can save many lives.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of this course, learners will be able to demonstrate using case-studies and simulation how to:
- Identify delivery risks for mothers and newborns
- Mitigate delivery risks for mothers and newborns
- Provide for the healthcare needs of newborns at delivery, include ventilatory support when appropriate
- Transfer newborn healthcare skills to other providers
PQC – ECEB 803 | $500
About this Course
The INMED Professional Qualification Course in Essential Care for Every Baby and Small Babies (ECEB-ECSB Master Trainer Course) is an evidence-based program to prepare learners to teach basic baby care techniques in low-resource locations to benefit midwives, mid-level providers, and community health workers.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of this course, learners will be able to demonstrate using case-studies and simulation how to:
- Provide essential care needed by every newborn
- Identify danger signs in newborns who require special care
- Provide feeding for small babies
- Educate parents in home care
- Transfer baby healthcare skills to other providers
PQC – HMS 804 | $500
About this Course
The Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) Master Trainer Course is designed to improve the results of pregnancy and delivery by equipping healthcare professionals and learners the most essential, evidence-based skills in pre-natal and obstetric care. HMS skills are especially applicable for low-resource and cross-cultural healthcare settings. HMS is an educational experience created by Jhpiego.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to demonstrate:
- Proficiency in essential care for labor and birth
- Management of bleeding after birth
- Management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Management of threatened preterm birth
- Management of prolonged labor
Concentrations
MIH elective courses allow learners to explore specialized topics in international health while developing expertise aligned with their professional interests and concentration. Electives provide flexibility within the degree program and support individualized learning pathways.
The following four concentrations can be selected any time prior to beginning elective courses. Each concentration requires at least 9 credit hours.
Healthcare Leadership
Prepares students with the competencies necessary to effectively cast vision, organize, and daily manage healthcare organizations.
3 Credit Hour Electives
Disaster Relief
Equips learners with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively mitigate, advanced plan, respond, and recover from natural and man-made disasters.
3 Credit Hour Electives
- Communicable Disease Control
- Healthcare Leadership and Management
- International Healthcare Ethics
- International Refugee Care
- Self-Care for Health Professionals
1 Credit Hour Electives
Maternal-Newborn Health
Prepares students with the competencies necessary to protect the health of pregnant mothers and their newborns, and to intervene with necessary treatments.
3 Credit Hour Electives
1 Credit Hour Electives
Low-Resource Primary Care
Equips learners with the knowledge and skills needed to provide quality health care in resource-limited and cross-cultural settings.
3 Credit Hour Electives
- Communicable Disease Control
- Healthcare for Marginalized Americans
- Healthcare Leadership & Management
- International Health Professions Education
- International Refugee Care
- Self-Care for Health Professionals
1 Credit Hour Electives