Resources

The Mayo International Health Program has compiled a broad range of resources to help you prepare for your rotation in an underserved international community.

For Mayo Clinic employees

These Mayo Clinic intranet links are for Mayo faculty, residents, fellows and other staff. To access them, you must be logged in to the Mayo Clinic network by being on campus or connected by virtual private network (VPN).

Groups

• Global Health Track — Department of Family Medicine
• International Health Lecture Series
• Mayo International Health Program
• Mayo Medical School Global Health Journal Club
• Pediatric Global Health
• Program in Underserved Global Health

Service opportunities

• Christian Medical & Dental Associations
• Mayo International Health Program Opportunities
• Samaritan's Purse International Relief: World Medical Mission

Travel medicine

• Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic
• Travel Medicine Resources

For Mayo Clinic employees and the public

Clinical cases

• Cases from the 2011 Gorgas Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine
• Dr. Bobbi Pritt's Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites

Conferences, seminars and courses

• A Taste of Tropical Medicine (Mayo Clinic)
• Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar Series (University of Minnesota)
• Global health conferences
• Tropical medicine courses

Online learning

• Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health (University of Pittsburgh)
• Global Health eLearning Center (USAID)
• Online Global Health Course (University of Minnesota)

Organizations

• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Other resources

• Books
  • "Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children" (World Health Organization)
  • "Primary Surgery" (Volume 1, Non-Trauma; Volume 2, Trauma — Maurice King, et al.)
  • "Surgical Care at the District Hospital" (textbook of essential surgery for primary care physicians — World Health Organization)
  • "Handbook of Medicine in Developing Countries" (3rd edition — Dennis Palmer and Catherine E. Wolf, CMDA, 2008. Target audience: Doctors and other clinicians going on short-term or long medical trips.)
  • "Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine" (3rd edition — Michael Eddleston, Robert Davidson, Andrew Brent and Robert Wilkinson, Oxford University Press, 2008. Target audience: Residents and practicing clinicians in the West or majority world. Part of the Oxford Handbook Series, a classic series of handbooks used and respected widely in Anglophone Africa.)
  • "Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine" (6th edition — G.V. Gill and Nick Beeching, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Target audience: Students and practitioners of tropical medicine. This is a 30-year classic from the Liverpool School that uses bullet-point outlines, tables, boxes and lists extensively for easier lookup.)
  • "Common Medical Problems in the Tropics" (3rd edition — C.R. Schull, Macmillan Education, 2010. Target audience: Paramedical workers in majority world countries. Gives approach to diagnosis of presenting symptoms within a resource-limited setting.)
• Gapminder (Karolinska Institutet)
• Global Health Interventions: A Review of the Evidence (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• International Travel and Health (World Health Organization)
• Millenium Development Goals (United Nations)
• Teaching-aids at Low Cost (nonprofit book and resource store)
• Travelers' Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Preparation for global health work

• Short courses and online
• Steve's Essential Stuff for Global Health Volunteerism

Service opportunities

• Catholic Medical Mission Board
• Volunteer Opportunities (JAMA Career Center)

Travel medicine

• Travel Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota

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