Impact of global medicine on urologic education.
Collaborative and academic partnerships between institutions in North America and those in resource-limited nations are a burgeoning trend. Leveraging the academic quality and outcomes-based infrastructure of university medical centers to increase surgical capacity in regions where urologic disease burden is immense offers potentially bilateral opportunities. Host institutions benefit from exposure to contemporary surgical approaches, while the surgical volume enables larger-scale collaborative outcome studies and exposure of residents-in-training to rare pathophysiology. This article surveys this growing trend in globalizing health care specific to urology, and the development of a program focused on urologic education at a tertiary referral center in India.
Department of Urologic Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. shukl011@umn.edu
Aseem R
AR
Shukla
D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D014572:Urology / Q000193:education*
Int J Fertil Womens Med. 2006 Nov-Dec;51(6):251-5
17566566
Lancet. 2009 Jun 6;373(9679):1993-5
19493564
Acad Med. 2008 Feb;83(2):115-6
18303353
World J Surg. 2010 Mar;34(3):459-65
20049438
Lancet. 2008 Dec 13;372(9655):2047-85
19097280
Bull Am Coll Surg. 2009 Feb;94(2):30-6
19492743
Health Hum Rights. 2010 Jun 15;12(1):137-52
20930260
Acad Med. 2008 Feb;83(2):117-21
18303354
Can J Urol. 2009 Jun;16(3):4625-6
19497167