They must lay out the specific aims and requirements to make international electives safe, educational and long lasting in their effect.
However, the evaluation of a truly "educational" elective and the standardization of applications, funding structures, site and resident evaluations remain elusive.
It is worth noting that the students and programs previously studied aspire to the recommendations for safe and educational elective programs described in the literature [ 23– 25].
Strategic Planning: It is recommended that a Global Health Education Working Group be developed within CORD to improve and integrate the process by which educational electives are offered and evaluated and promote the standardization with which resident trainees are assessed. .
Strategic Planning: It is recommended that a Global Health Education Working Group be developed within CORD to improve and integrate the process by which educational electives are offered and evaluated and promote the standardization with which resident trainees are assessed.
Medical schools are also noting increased demand for educational electives in LMICs.
This may have resulted in residents with higher educational debt taking more electives, or selecting electives with lighter duties possibly skewing the associations between elective exposures and ABIM-CE performance.
We describe an innovative design for a nephrology elective that provides residents with educational experiences in both inpatient and outpatient venues and exposure to faculty with diverse interests and areas of expertise.
A thorough understanding of the IHE experience - from the perspectives of both host and rotator - will ultimately lead to the design of electives that yield the highest educational benefit.
The five components for teacher education, include (a) the educational component; (b) the professional practice component; (c) the school subject content; (d) the educational electives component; and (e) the educational specialization component.
