Dive Into Global Health Issues During Med School
If you are applying to medical school, I encourage you to read this article. It highlights the importance of incorporating global health coursework, service, research and practice in medical school. In our "interconnected world", studying global health issues is all the more important so doctors can better address the needs of all patients both in the US and abroad. "Disease is disease."
" Professor Coates (professor of global AIDS research at the University of California—Los Angeles) says global health issues ought to be integrated into core medical school classes, even those that aren't classified strictly as global health courses. In order to understand the greatest challenges in medicine, Coates says, a doctor needs to have a global perspective."
