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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
Perspective<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>December</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Perspective<br />
Highlights<br />
Welcome<br />
Congratulations<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Video of the Month<br />
Ebola in Uganda<br />
Decolonization<br />
Innovation and Technology<br />
Among the Letters<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who<br />
We Can Be<br />
Reflections<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Upcoming Grand Rounds<br />
New Publication<br />
Global Health Family<br />
Calendar<br />
Photo Gallery<br />
Resources<br />
The Value of Global Health:<br />
Perspectives from the Bedside<br />
Written by Stephen Scholand, MD<br />
The Nuvance/UVMLCOM Global Health Program<br />
serves a very important and multifunctional role in<br />
healthcare and particularly in clinical healthcare<br />
education.<br />
The core of the program is grounded in a<br />
bidirectional model to teach the next generation<br />
of physicians and healthcare workers. It is truly<br />
global in extent – with teaching sites spread over multiple countries in Africa,<br />
Asia, Latin America and beyond. In this way, the program connects healthcare<br />
provision with knowledge, teaching, and genuine compassion.<br />
One particularly important aspect of the program is the authentic patient care<br />
experiences offered. It is essential to move beyond the textbook, the classroom<br />
or Zoom session into the reality of patients’ lives and conditions. Our global<br />
health learners are immersed in these experiences across a diversity of settings.<br />
Many current and past learners have extolled the amazing opportunities they<br />
have had, and related how they were affected or changed as a result. The<br />
program’s blog and <strong>eMagazine</strong> publications are filled with these stories.<br />
Some of these accounts highlight the health inequities prevalent in many<br />
settings, helping to nurture the development of compassion, concern and<br />
humanity. These qualities integrate into who we are as providers and affect<br />
“everyday” healthcare back home. Senior clinicians and faculty have in fact<br />
noted that the global health experiences resonate with their core ideals and<br />
beliefs in the practice of medicine. Our preceptors often report feeling renewed<br />
and reinvigorated by participating in these opportunities.<br />
Global health then represents not only a frontier for bedside teaching and<br />
compassion, but also provides a stalwart foundation of what makes us caring<br />
and capable physicians.<br />
One personal experience I will always remember was my time spent working on<br />
a dengue fever ward in a city hospital in the tropics. Seeing and spending time<br />
with patients on rounds every day, noting their physical and clinical appearance<br />
with only a singular platelet count once a week, helped enhance my clinical<br />
skills and reframe my own perspectives on caring for patients. Learning to heal<br />
without all the technological distractions was possible and readily achievable.<br />
In sum, global health opportunities through the Nuvance/UVMLCOM Program<br />
provide a comprehensive framework for clinical learning. Partnerships with other<br />
health institutions and people are forged and strengthened. Human connections<br />
become the fabric with which we share our knowledge and provide experienced<br />
based teaching opportunities. Our friendships are strong, and our leadership is<br />
visionary. We look forward to the continued prosperity of the program.<br />
Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT (Majid Sadigh)<br />
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