医学院校全球卫生能力建设的国际经验及启示

Capacity building of global health at medical school:International experience and their implications to China

全球化正在不可逆转地改变着人们的健康状况和卫生保健服务,也对未来医学院校的毕业生提出了新的要求,医学院校加强全球卫生的能力建设势在必行。本文总结了医学院校全球卫生能力建设的国际经验,主要包括成立全球卫生部门,将全球卫生内容整合到医学课程中,开展全球卫生的国际临床选修课程,参与全球卫生实践活动。在此基础上,对加强我国医学院校全球卫生能力建设而改革医学教育提出了相关意见:开展全球卫生研究和教学的平台建设,构建新的课程体系,将全球卫生知识融入现有的学生境外交流活动中等。

Globalization is inevitably altering health and health care. It puts new demands on future medical graduates. Capacity strengthening in global health becomes imperative. This paper summarizes international experience in capacity building of global health for medical schools, which includes creating departments of global health, integrating global health topics into core medical curricula, developing programs for global health clinical electives and participating in global health practice. Based on the international experience, the authors put forward several implications for transforming medical education to strengthen capacity in global health for Chinese medical institutions, including： platform building for research and global health topics into student overseas exc teaching in global health, hange programs, etc. designing a new course structure, integrating