Curriculum per Department

Medicine | Neurosurgery | Psychiatry | Obstetrics and Gynecology

Global Health Neurosurgery Residents

Global Health Residents from the Duke Neurosurgery Training Program will apply 12 months of their non-clinical research elective time from PGY4 towards global health training. Nine months of this year will be devoted to coursework in the Masters of Science-Global Health program and three months to setting up a mentored research project at an international site. Beginning in PGY7, following completion of at least 36 months of clinical neurosurgery training and establishment of board eligibility, the Neurosurgery GH resident will engage in clinical care and research activities for six additional months at a mentor-approved international site. Throughout the residency there will be ample opportunity to access special events and lectures.

Global Health Competencies for Neurosurgery

Topic	Goals	Objectives
Health Disparities	Develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for culturally competent care.	GH residents will be asked to keep a log of instructive patient surgical cases in which social determinants (e.g., education, food security, housing, early life experiences, social trauma, and gender) have played a major role in the health of a given patient. In the final month of the program, residents will undergo an oral examination by two Duke Neurosurgery faculty in which five or more of these cases are discussed.
Third world surgical procedures	Describe the major pathological processes, their biological alterations, and how they affect specific organ systems.	GH residents will receive a number of didactic sessions taught by Duke Department of Surgery faculty on, but not limited to, basic general surgical procedures (e.g., appendectomies, cholecystectomies, long bone fracture stabilization and repair, tonsillectomy, and tracheotomy). Competency in these areas will be assessed by case-study based oral examinations administered in the final month of the program.
Public Health	Develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes need to practice basic principles of prevention.	GH residents will receive intensive didactic training in public health through a master's level curriculum at Duke University. Topics of importance to include research methods, program implementation and evaluation, health policy, and leadership.

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