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Office of International Humanitarian Medicine
Emergency Medicine is one of the few specialties of medicine that encompasses all disciplines of medicine. One unique opportunity to learn more about diseases rarely seen in this country is to travel abroad. The International Humanitarian Medicine program at MCG allows Emergency Medicine residents the opportunity to travel to third world countries and provide medical care to those underserved by modern medicine. The experience however, is mutually beneficial, with the physicians educated and enlightened by the experience.
2009 INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE COURSE
Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine Course
Bangkok, Thailand | May 12-22, 2009
The trips are generally of 1-3 weeks duration,
and most involve care of poor and disadvantaged citizens. Many trips
take place in primitive environments such as villages in the Peruvian
Amazon, remote towns in Myanmar, and the Masai region of Kenya. Team
members sometimes are housed in simple hotel rooms, but in the more
remote regions of the world the team members sleep on sleeping bags
underneath mosquito nets. Recent countries visited include the Philippines,
Thailand, Myanmar, Haiti, Peru, Dominican Republic, Romania, Turkey, and
Kenya. On the drawing board are trips to China, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and
Egypt. The majority of the international trips available to residents
are co-sponsored by Missions to the World, a medical missionary group
based in Atlanta, but no religious affiliations or participation are
required of the medical team members.
For more information about International Humanitarian Medicine program, contact Dr. Ted Kuhn at or 706-721-3530.
Download a presentation about previous International Humanitarian Medicine Programs
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| International Medicine Team deep in the Amazon 2002. | |
Page updated: June 12, 2008