GLOBAL HEALTH PLACEMENT

INFORMATION SESSION

Jessica SleethNovember 17, 2011

Agenda

•Criteria

•Things to consider

•Application process

•Checklist

Criteria

• Observership is minimum 4 weeks

• Must adhere to all UGME and Queen's University International Centre policies

• Observership criteria document

• Can go with organization or set-up own placement

• Attend PDT and post-arrival sessions

• Certificate

Questions to ask yourself...

• What kind of traveller are you? Experienced?

• Where do you want to live?

• Urban or rural

• Homestay or independently

• What kind of experience do you want?

• Clinical? Hospital or busy clinic

• Public health? Outreach and community healthcare

• Interprofessional experience

• Speciality or general?

• Rural medicine versus hospital in different healthcare system

Questions to ask yourself...

• Language?

• Structured project and timeframe?

• What are your goals and expectations?

• Medically - clinical practice or social/cultural experience

• Personally - what do you want to have accomplished by the end of the summer?

• Research?

• Why are you going? To help? To learn?

More questions...

•Spend time reflecting on your expectations

•What are your motivations?

•This trip is for you, you will not save the world, but you will learn and grow as a person

•"Sometimes good intentions aren't enough"

•Website

•OCASP

•Observership Approval Form

Pre-departure Checklist

• Application due: February 17th, 2012

• One copy by email and one dropped off at the OGH

• GH Bursary: last Friday in February (not administered by the OGH)

• Pre-departure Training: April 2012

• Individual interviews: April 2012

• OCASP: May 1, 2012 (if placement is in June, OCASP us due April 1, 2012) - through Queen’s University International Centre

• Observership Approval form (online, UGME): 6 weeks before departure

Post-arrival Checklist

•Observership Attendance form: September 15, 2012 (online, UGME)

•OCASP incidence form: 30 days post-arrival

•Post-arrival debrief session

•Placement Information Form