title: Medical Education and Global Health Equity.
abstract: Recent efforts to expand medical training in resource-constrained settings are laudable, but change that transforms health systems will require new educational approaches. Today's physician-leaders need to leverage clinical and global health knowledge with a nuanced understanding of the social forces that impact health, the ability to marshal political will, and the capacity to manage dynamic programs and institutions. In establishing the University of Global Health Equity, we have identified three reform principles. First, equipping medical schools with the tools and technology to deliver is imperative. Second, the mismatch between the skills taught in most medical schools and those needed to improve fragile health systems must be addressed. Finally, medical schools that strive to eliminate health inequities should "walk the walk," adopting progressive practices to institutionalize equity.
authors.affiliation: Clinician who practices infectious disease medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and an educator who teaches global health and social medicine at Harvard University in Boston, and a health systems researcher and the co-founder and executive director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Partners In Health's new university in Rwanda.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Drobac
authors.affiliation: Deputy chief medical officer at Partners In Health, an assistant program director for the internal medicine residency program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and a visiting professor at the University of Global Health Equity.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morse
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D004501:Education, Medical; D014943:Global Health; D018166:Health Care Reform; D000069576:Health Equity; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010820:Physicians; D011057:Politics; D012432:Rwanda; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012931:Social Environment; D014495:Universities