Recommended Resources
Multisite medical service programs:
Doctors Without Borders: "Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries."
Global Medicine Network: "A free and open service for the international health community [...] the Global Medicine Network was created to establish personal and professional contacts among individuals and organizations working in international health and global medicine. The aim is to promote cooperative relationships in areas such as humanitarian service, medicine and supply donation, research, health education and visitor exchange."
Health Volunteers Overseas: "Health Volunteers Overseas is a private non-profit organization dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care in developing countries through the training and education of local health care providers."
Partners in Health: "PIH specializes not in short-term emergency interventions but in partnerships that we expect to last a lifetime and beyond. [...] Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair."
Pediatric AIDS Corps: "The Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Baylor College of Medicine has created a global network of clinical centers modeled after two landmark HIV/AIDS care and treatment centers it constructed and opened in Constanta, Romania and Gaborone, Botswana."
Total Health: "Total Health is a U.S. based organization that is committed to providing high quality, consistent and reliable medical care in Central America. In short, we want to provide primary care medicine to people who have never had it before. Through disease prevention and early treatment we can dramatically change the health of the people we serve."
Clinics and other local medical service programs:
The Banyan: This facility focuses on providing psychiatric and medical care for mentally ill destitute women in Chennai, India. "Since its inception, The Banyan has reached out to over 1,500 women in need and rehabilitated over 850 wandering individuals struggling with mental illness." The Banyan Blog: "The Banyan is an organization based in Chennai that works for the cause of homeless persons with mental illness. We started in the year 1993 as a humane response to a woman in distress. Today we have grown into an organization that is taking a lead in catalyzing change for homeless people with mental illness."
Manos Juntas: Cofounded by Dr. Boyd Shook, this charitable organization provides care in Mina El Limón, Nicaragua, and other settings.
Medical Aid to Northern Uganda: "MANU is a joint United States-Chicago based and Ugandan not-for-profit organization committed to the mission of promoting and providing sustainable health care services to the needy. We plan to help fight disease and poverty in Northern Uganda especially those high risk populations and the most vulnerable, regardless of their social status, ethnic origin, religious or political affiliation."
ServeHAITI: This nonprofit, faith-based organization is dedicated to promoting a better quality of life for the people living in the impoverished region of Grand-Bois, Haiti.
Medical Aid to Northern Uganda: "MANU is a joint United States-Chicago based and Ugandan not-for-profit organization committed to the mission of promoting and providing sustainable health care services to the needy. We plan to help fight disease and poverty in Northern Uganda especially those high risk populations and the most vulnerable, regardless of their social status, ethnic origin, religious or political affiliation."
ServeHAITI: This nonprofit, faith-based organization is dedicated to promoting a better quality of life for the people living in the impoverished region of Grand-Bois, Haiti.
Academic exchange programs:
Global REACH: "University of Michigan Medical School Global REACH (Global Research, Education And Collaboration in Health) is an initiative of the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS). Our mission is to facilitate health research, education, and collaboration among the University of Michigan Medical School faculty, students, and our global partners for the benefit of patients worldwide."
International medical practice - discussion forums:
General International Discussion - Student Doctor Network Forums
Main Foreign Medical Schools Forum - ValueMD Medical Schools Forum
U.S. health care reform in global context:
Physicians for a National Health Program: "Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 14,000 members and chapters across the United States."
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