Promoting Health Equity Through Purposeful Design and Professionalization of Resident Global Health Electives in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Autor: Luckett R; Botswana Harvard AIDS Initiative Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana; Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole, Botswana; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. Electronic address: rluckett@bidmc.harvard.edu., Barak T; Botswana Harvard AIDS Initiative Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana; Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole, Botswana; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts., Anderson S; Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole, Botswana., Kalenga K; Scottish Livingstone Hospital, Molepolole, Botswana., Johnson K; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts., Molina RL; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts., Clune E; Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts., Mmalane M; Botswana Harvard AIDS Initiative Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana., Makhema J; Botswana Harvard AIDS Initiative Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana., Ricciotti HA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts., Scott J; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of surgical education [J Surg Educ] 2019 Nov - Dec; Vol. 76 (6), pp. 1594-1604. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 May 31.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.05.019
Abstrakt: Objective: To design an Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) residency elective in global health that meets ACGME standards and simultaneously promotes health equity.
Design: A 4-week elective was established for US residents in a high-volume African district hospital that served as a site for OBGYN rotations for the national internship training program. Clear clinical, operative, and teaching requirements were delineated for US OBGYN residents. Resident formal didactic outputs were incorporated into the intern OBGYN curriculum. The program was evaluated through assessment of resident experience and contribution to local training, as well as assessment of intern competency in OBGYN.
Setting: Scottish Livingstone Hospital, a public district hospital in Molepolole, Botswana.
Participants: Second- to fourth-year OBGYN residents from US training programs, working with Batswana medical interns under on-site faculty supervision.
Results: From May 2016 to June 2018, 18 residents from 9 US OBGYN residency programs participated in the elective. Under supervision, US residents performed 116 major and 77 minor gynecologic surgeries, and teach-assisted Batswana interns and medical officers in 76 cesarean deliveries. Residents led or contributed significantly to 25 didactic education sessions as part of the formal intern OBGYN curriculum. During this period, 24 Batswana interns rotated through the hospital's department of OBGYN, and all 24 trainees met required OBGYN competencies prior to completing their internship.
Conclusions: Matching US resident demand for global health experiences to equitable global health programming while maintaining ACGME training guidelines poses a challenge to OBGYN residency training programs. This elective provides a model OBGYN global health elective that addresses host-identified needs, broadens residents' skills, and meets standards for postgraduate OBGYN training. Purposeful global health electives for US residents embedded in longitudinal programs provide an opportunity for residents to contribute to broader global health efforts that promote health equity.
(Copyright © 2019 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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