PUBLIC HEALTH
PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
These electives are not available to visiting students.
| PB02P Medicine in the Tropics |
| All interested Columbia P&S students MUST have approval from the course director for this elective. |
| Course Director: |
Dr. Dickson Despommier, (212) 781-6670, ddd1@columbia.edu |
| Given: |
All year, for a mimimum of two months, not including travel time, sorry no exceptions. |
| Maximum: |
None |
| Start Date/Time: |
Start date and time to be arranged (contact course director) |
| Site/Location: |
Site and location to be arranged (contact course director) |
| Description: |
So you want to travel?
So you want to travel to exotic places?
You've come to the right place.
By the way, the Tropics is defined as that region of the earth lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Learning Objective: To expose students to preventive and clinical medicine programs in developing countries with emphasis on tropical infectious diseases.
Learning Experience: Stress is placed on the mechanisms of delivery of health care, and attention is paid to the medical, cultural and socioeconomic circumstances under which health care is organized.
University, government, mission and industrial medical facilities in Central and South America, Africa and Asia are available for this purpose.
Requirements: A letter of collaboration from the host institution must be in hand before the elective can be approved. In addition, the student must maintain a diary of the experience.
From this document a 10-12 page report (not including supplemental illustrations-which are highly encouraged) must be filed in the Office of Student Affairs and serves as a record and resource for the next student who may wish a similar Medicine in the Tropics experience.
Feedback and Evaluation: Dependent upon filed report and mentor evaluation at host institution. |
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
| PB01P Public Health |
THIS ELECTIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE TO VISITING STUDENTS.
All interested Columbia P&S students MUST have approval from the course director for this elective.
All interested P&S students must contact the course director at least three months in advance in order to arrange these individualized placements. |
| Course Director: |
Dr. Susan Cohen, (212) 305-5152, sc33@columbia.edu |
| Given: |
September through June |
| Maximum: |
2 students per month |
| Start Date/Time: |
Start date and time to be arranged (contact course director) |
| Site/Location: |
Site/location to be arranged (contact course director) |
| Description: |
Individual field placement in public health programs and research projects of Columbia School of Public Health, New York City Department of Health, and other agencies.
Objective: The student will be able to describe, in a written project report, one specific public health problem and at least one approach to ameliorating or investigating it.
Learning Experience: Students will actively participate in public health intervention and research projects in areas of their choice, including maternal and child health, epidemiology, geriatrics, health services finance and delivery, quality assurance, family planning, the sociomedical sciences, and environmental health.
Feedback: The student will work closely with a supervisor within the project, and will meet periodically with the course director to assess the progress of the elective.
Evaluation: The student's grade will be based on a paper (approximately 10 double-spaced pages in length) that describes the project and relates it to a local or national public health issue (as described in the published literature); and on the evaluation of the project supervisor. |
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