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INMED International Medicine Intensive Course The course will be held at the
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of Infectious Diseases
Starting: 7/1/10 1/1/11 3/1/11 5/1/11 6/1/11
! Physicians, Dentists, & $1025 $1085 $1140 $1250 $1470 Via Christi Medical Center
Pharmacists International Medicine
Fellowship
! Residents, NPs, PAs $810 $865 $920 $1030 $1250
! Students* $535 $585 $645 $755 $865
U n i v e r s i t y o f Te x a s
*Medical, PA, NP, Dental and Pharmacy students only. PhD students Southwestern Medical
are not eligible for the student rate. Center/John Peter Smith International public health
To pay via credit card, pay online at www.inmed.us or call
816-444-6400, or make checks payable to INMED and mail
Hospital Diseases of poverty
completed registration with payment to: Cross-cultural competency in healthcare
University of Missouri
Institute for International Medicine
6400 Prospect Ave., Suite 338A Kansas City School of Health leadership
Kansas City, MO 64132 Medicine International Personal skills for cross-cultural living
CME/CEU Information Medicine Program
To be eligible for CME or CEU credit, one must attend the entire
course. Partial credit will not be given, and the certificates will be
given out at the conclusion of the course.
Refund Information For more information outlining the course
If one is unable to attend the course after having registered, he/she curriculum and logistics, please visit
June 6-17, 2011
must notify INMED in writing by April 30, 2011 to receive a refund. University of Missouri - Kansas City
A $50.00 fee will be charged for all cancelled registrations. No www.inmed.us or contact INMED at:
5120 Holmes
refunds will be issued after April 30, 2011. INMED reserves the
right to cancel or modify individual sessions or the entire course. In Kansas City, MO 64110
(816) 444-6400
the event of a course cancellation, a full tuition refund will be made.
Fax: 816-444-3060
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At the completion of the INMED International Medicine Intensive Course, Course Content Course Topics
students in the context of a low-resource community will be able to:
The course will address five particular bodies of knowledge: International Public Health
• Advocate for literacy, economic development, and those interventions most • Launching Into International
effective to promote health and prevent death and disability • International Public Health - Those factors Medicine
• Prevent, diagnose, and treat the leading diseases of poverty that most significantly impact health in low- • World Health Challenges
• Assure that health interventions are culturally appropriate resource communities • Promoting Health Thru
• Design effective health interventions as part of a health leadership team • Diseases of Poverty - Focusing on Community Development
• Successfully adapt one's lifestyle to a new cultural context preventing and treating medical conditions • Nutritional Assessment
• Demonstrate technical proficiency in relevant clinical skills that are most frequently associated with and
encountered in low-income and developing Diseases of Poverty
Course Directors: nations • Water-Borne Diseases &
• Cross-Cultural Skills - Addressing how to Dehydration
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH adapt to living and working effectively in • Lower Respiratory Infections
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City unfamiliar cultures • Common Eye Disorders Cross-Cultural Competencey In
School of Medicine • Health Leadership - Detailing how health professionals can work in • Essential Optical Refraction Healthcare
President, Institute for International Medicine – INMED cooperation with communities to design and lead effective health systems • Prevention of Global Blindness • Health & Culture
• Personal Skills For Cross-Cultural Living - Covering cultural adaptation, • Burns & ENT Disorders • Surviving Culture Shock
physical health, personal relationships and financial skills connected with • Oral/Dental Pathology • Cultural Adaptation
Nancy Crigger, PhD, ARNP service in low-resource communities • Family Planning & Prenatal Care • Language Acquisition
Associate Professor of Nursing, William Jewell College, • Obstetrical Complications
Liberty, MO
Educational Components
• Common Newborn Illnesses Health Leadership
• Teaching Basic Newborn Care • Principles of Disaster Management
Students in the course will achieve the above learning
• Vaccination & Well Child Care • Comparative Health Systems
objectives through the following educational components:
• Malaria • Haiti Health Intervention Planning
• TB • Community Health Assessment
• Lecture presentations by expert professionals
Featured Faculty: • Fungal Diseases • Major Global Health Initiatives
• Case studies providing analysis and application
• Avian Influenza • Ethical Issues in International Medicine
Joe LeMaster, MD • Hands-on clinical skill stations to develop technical facility
• Fine Needle Aspiration • Future of International Medicine
Following residency in 1990, Joe and his wife Judy first • Formation groups exploring personal application
• Necrotizing Infections • Research in International Health
served at Okhaldhunga Hospital in eastern Nepal, a 32-
Enrollment Qualifications • Burn Management
bed facility that provided the only medical care for 300,000
• Common Surgical Disorders Personal Skills For International Living
people. During a furlough, Joe completed a Masters in
The course is open to healthcare professionals and healthcare students in • Chronic Disease Management • Misconceptions About Medical Missions
Public Health in Developing Countries at the London
the fields that routinely diagnose and treat disease, including physicians, • Supplying Safe Drinking Water • Choosing Your Service Path
School of Tropical Medicine. Over the next ten years he
dentists, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, • Evidence-based Disaster Medicine• International Travel Made Easier
also promoted maternal-child health through the
resident physicians, students of medicine, dentistry, physician assistants, • Bioterriorism • Personal Health Of The Traveler
Okhaldhunga Primary Health Care Programme in Nepal,
and pharmacy. • HIV Management • Financial Planning For Medical Missions
and he did research on leprosy with The Leprosy Mission
• HIV Opportunistic Infections
and Anandaban Leprosy Hospital. Evaluation • Intestinal Helmithic Infections
• Tissue Hemithic Infections
John Gibson, MD Assessment of student's performance will be based upon:
• Measles, Polio, & Dengue
Dr. Gibson is Program Director of the International • Viral Hepatitis
Medicine Fellowship at the University of Texas • Attendance and participation in all course events
Southwestern Health Sciences Center/John Peter Smith • Acceptable performance on examinations
Hospital. He lived in Thailand from 1984-2004 training Certification
medical personnel and providing care for marginalized
people throughout the nation. Students who successfully complete the course of study and
who pass the final examination will receive the INMED Academic
The participating faculty includes 20 healthcare Qualification In International Medicine. Verification of the
professionals with international medicine expertise. For educational experience will be provided to the student's affiliated
school or residency program. Those who do not pass the final
more information outlining the course curriculum and
examination will receive a certificate of attendance.
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