Global Health–related Training Opportunities. A National Survey of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Programs

What is it about?

Clinical and research training opportunities in global health are of increasing interest to medical trainees, but little is known about such opportunities in U.S.-based pulmonary and pulmonary/critical care medicine (PCCM) fellowship programs. This survey – the first to characterize available global health-related training opportunities in U.S.-based PCCM fellowship programs – highlights important challenges that have limited the expansion of PCCM global health-related training, provides a framework around which a standardized training curriculum and metrics of success can be developed, and characterizes several existing gaps that require formal evaluation before consideration of widespread implementation of global health-related training opportunities nationally.

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