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Dedicated Poster
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LP10 - 05
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Accept
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I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
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Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Poster
Sub Type
Education Research
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Title
Global Health in Canadian Undergraduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review of Best Practices and Call to Action
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Background/Purpose
Global health is becoming an increasingly important field in our ever-changing global climate and for more than a decade there have been calls for increased global health education in undergraduate medical curricula. This scoping review serves to provide an update on the progress of Canadian undergraduate medical education to incorporate global health
Methods
With the aim to identify the best practices and existing knowledge gaps for integrating global health into undergraduate medical curricula, we conducted a comprehensive search of PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and ERIC in June 2020 yielding 195 articles. Inclusion criteria included articles that focused on undergraduate medical training in Canada, those that address global health topics, and were published in the last ten years. Articles in both English and French were considered. After the removal of duplicates and screening, 33 articles remained. Grey literature sources were also searched, adding additional documents to the results.
Results
The final articles were synthesized based on three themes: core curriculum, international electives, and extracurricular activities. Out of the final 33 articles, 60% focused on international electives, where about 1/3 of these highlighted the ethical dilemma surrounding international global health electives and 1/4 focused on inconsistencies in pre-departure training. Only 7 of the articles focuses on core undergraduate curriculum, all of which were published in 2015 or earlier, which draw further attention to a gap in current research.
Conclusion
These results re-assert the need for improved global health education in medical education and act as a call to action for medical educators. This has led to further research analyzing global health education programs.
Keyword 1
Global Health
Keyword 2
Social Accountability
Keyword 3
Undergraduate Medical Education
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Curriculum
Curriculum
General
Additional Theme (First choice)
Undergraduate
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Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Emma McDermott
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Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
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Yes
Term 5
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