Global Health Residency Pathway
The Global Health Pathway offers residents the opportunity to integrate global health into their training. This aligns with the institution’s mission to improve pediatric health outcomes locally and globally and promote innovation.
Residents can participate in educational activities throughout the year or complete a Certificate in Global Health, which includes simulation, skills training and the biannual Global Child Health Course. Participants gain skills in international partnership building, health systems strengthening and caring for diverse populations—including refugees and children living in poverty.
To qualify for the Certificate in Global Child Health, residents must complete one activity from each of the following categories by graduation:
- Didactic teaching
- International or Immigrant Health Elective
- Final educational product or presentation
In recent years, residents have completed international or immigrant health electives in the following areas:
- Border Health
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indian Health Service
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Uganda
- Uruguay
To learn more about global health leaders at Children’s National, visit the Global Health Initiative.
Global Child Health Course
Residents are participating in the simulation and skills portions of the course.
Past Global Health Pathway Projects
Several residents have been recipients of the Global Health Initiative Resident/Fellow Travel Award. As a part of this award, recipients must give a presentation on their experience. Sample presentations include:
- Creation and implementation of a Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) system to identify patients at risk for decompensation at St. Paul’s Millenium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Updating the neonatal hypoglycemia protocol used at Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico
- Noon conference on sexual violence against children in Native American communities and how this relates to high levels of intergenerational trauma, poverty, substance use and poor coordination between justice departments
- Morning report on a patient with Dengue fever and was hospitalized and the WHO guidelines for treatment and classification
- Professorial Rounds on a patient with previously undiagnosed cardiac disease
Explore Our Pathway
Curriculum
Our curriculum draws from a core set of learning goals established by consensus among several global health training programs.
Electives
In the global health elective course, offered twice per year at Children's National, our experts prepare residents for future international elective experiences or work in a developing country. Alternative elective options, including an online course and an immigrant health elective, are also available.
Contact Us
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Enroll
Learn how you can enroll to participate in Children's National Global Health Residency Pathway.
Questions?
Contact Kathy Ferrer, MD, or Stacey Stokes, MD.