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Curriculum

The International Emergency Medicine Fellowship curriculum is designed to be flexible to accommodate the individual needs and interests of each fellow and is made up of field work, academic (MPH) and clinical components. The core curricular components of fellowship training will include the following elements:

Develop the ability to assess international health systems and identify pertinent emergency health issues.

Establish contacts and develop relationships with local health officials.
Acquire knowledge of prominent endemic illnesses and comorbid factors.
Evaluate available health resources, including current emergency services.
List and prioritize health needs.
Use available data for system evaluation.

Design emergency health programs that address identified needs.

Design programs that integrate needs assessment with available resources.
Develop skills in organization and implementation of international projects.
Develop a proposal that addresses health goals, desired outcomes, funding, resources, and available implementing partners.
Develop educational skills and presentation techniques.

Develop the skills necessary to implement EM programs abroad and integrate them into existing health systems.

Develop cooperative relationships with existing medical, public health, and political organizations.
Establish working relationships with other health providers.
Integrate emergency medical programs into existing infrastructures.
Set up education and funding mechanisms to promote program sustainability.

Evaluate the effectiveness of international health programs.

Design an evaluation tool during the planning phases of a project to form a usable database.
Develop systems of data collection for program evaluation.
Maintain quality assurance indicators.
Contribute to the body of literature in international health.

Curriculum planning

The fellowship director and fellow will regularly review the fellowship curriculum plan, which will be evaluated on the basis of educational value and content relevance to the fellowship goals and objectives. The fellow and the director will review the clinical experience and international electives.

Field work

Fellows will be required to take part in ongoing international projects and spend a significant amount of time during each year abroad. The fellowship field work must be of a substantive, not observational, nature and provide the basis of a research project with a view to publication. Field work will be arranged and coordinated by the fellow under the supervision of the fellowship director.

Clinical

The fellow will work in the emergency departments of Christiana Care Health System's two hospital campuses—in Newark and Wilmington. The fellow will be scheduled for an average of three clinical shifts per week and will be expected to participate in academic activities in the Department of Emergency Medicine including grand rounds, conferences and journal clubs.

Academic

The two-year fellowship curriculum will allow the fellow to obtain an MPH degree in global health from a program of the fellow's choosing, subject to approval by the fellowship director.