International Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Specific goals

• Develop skills in organization and implementation of short term international emergency expeditions such as: site and team selection, liability, supply logistics, travel arrangements, financial management of expedition funds, and overall expedition logistics
  
• Successfully serve as expedition coordinator for two or more international expeditions
  
• Learn to work with the ministry of health for respective developing countries to allow the most lasting benefit from short term mission expeditions
  
• Develop skills as an academician through research, independent study, and teaching roles
  
• Develop skills in disaster medicine as related to international emergency medicine
  
• Gain knowledge of internationally acquired infectious diseases
  
• Increase understanding of the preventive aspects of international travel health
  
• Establish guidelines for pre-travel immunizations and illness/injury prevention
  
• Develop the proficiency to assess international health systems and identify essential health issues
  
• Develop the necessary ability to implement emergency medicine programs abroad and integrate them with existing health systems
  
• Learn to evaluate the effectiveness of international health programs
  
• Develop methods of fund raising for international mission expeditions

Left: Disaster drill, Czech Republic; Right: Improvised pharmacy, Kenya