Global Health Program

Global Health Track

• Global Health Track Application (Word)

October 2009

Global Health Track
For WVU Medical Students

Notice to all First Year Medical Students:

Opportunity for Global Health Track for Medical Students

 The Global Health (GH) Track is available for WVU medical students and begins during the summer between 1st and 2nd year.  The purpose of the GH Track is to provide additional training and experience in global health to WVU students throughout their four years of medical school and to attract excellent students to WVU School of Medicine who have a special interest in global health.

There are two options available to a student who chooses to do the Global Health Track:

Option 1 – Attend any three modules (6 weeks) of the Clinical Tropical           Medicine and Traveler's Health Course in the summer (tuition waiver here is worth         $4000.00 and is free to the student).  Summer stipend will be $1000.00             (depending on availability of funding).

Option 2 – Attend all four modules (8 weeks) of the Clinical Tropical Medicine            and Traveler's Health Course (tuition waiver here is worth $4750.00).  Summer          stipend will be $1000.00(depending on availability of funding).

It is required that students in the GH Track take three or all four modules in the summer between their first and second year in order to facilitate planning electives in their fourth year.

Students in the Global Health Track who choose to take only three modules of the 8-week course this summer will take the remaining module during their fourth year as an elective.  After completion of the entire 8 week course, the student will receive a certificate of completion of the course and recognition by the WVU School of Medicine as having completed the Global Health Track.  He/she will be eligible to sit for the national exam offered by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The rest of the benefits and requirements of the Global Health Track include:

1. Option to take an international elective for two months during fourth year (instead of the usual one month) and a guaranteed stipend
2. Opportunities for participation in many activities associated with international health throughout 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years (Students for Global Health Club, Circa Terra, Medical Spanish Association, Physicians for Human Rights).
3. Recognition by the School of Medicine as having successfully completed the WVU Global Health Track

To Apply:       

Application will be posted on the Student Services web page or you can contact Melanie Fisher, MD, Director of the Global Health Program at 293-3306 or by email mfisher@hsc.wvu.edu or Jacque Herceg at 293-5916 or by email jherceg@hsc.wvu.edu.

We will select TWO students for the GH Track this year, beginning summer of 2010.  Student applicants will be selected by a faculty committee.

Please email Dr. Melanie Fisher at mfisher@hsc.wvu.edu, 293-3306, or page her at Beeper 0566 with any questions.