E-Learning

This webinar describes the magnitude of the global surgical deficit and what needs to be done to address it.

Haiti Hub's Intro to Creole is a basic, popular conversation class designed specifically for people who work or volunteer full-time with Haiti-focused organizations. It is an immersive class that meets Mon-Thurs for an hour each day for 2 weeks total.
The Intro class is built around the book "Creole Made Easy: A Simple Introduction to Haitian Creole for English speaking people." This book (available for $14 at Amazon) is made up of 16 short lessons.
Fee: $160

Class is offered monthly.  Schedule available here: http://haitihub.com/class_list.php

This self paced course from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and HarvardX begins on 10/26/17 and seeks to prepare learners to recognize and analyze emerging challenges in the humanitarian field. The course explores the ethical and professional principles that guide humanitarian response to conflict and disaster.

A large number of diseases are particularly associated with poverty. Where functioning economies, education and healthcare systems are in motion, the prevalence of such diseases diminishes. But when these social components falter, as in times of disaster, economic depression or civil unrest, diseases associated with poverty routinely reemerge. The INMED Diseases Of Poverty Self-paced Course is designed to equip clinicians to prevent, diagnose and treat the most prevalent and unfamiliar diseases of poverty.

The cost of a 90-day subscription to the course is $49 without receiving Continuing Medical Education Credit and is $100 with receiving 12 Hours Continuing Medical Education Credit

The Course will address the following bodies of knowledge:

At the completion of this course, participants will in the context of a low-resource community be able to:

• Advocate for literacy and general education
• Advocate for economic development
• Effectively promote health through the most potent interventions
• Effectively intervene against the leading causes of death and disability
• IOM: Work in interdisciplinary teams; Utilize informatics; Employ Evidence-based practices
• ACGME/ABMS: Medical knowledge; Interpersonal and communications skills; Professionalism; and Systems-based practice.

The course and exam must be completed within 90 days of subscription. If not, a new subscription will be required. The cost of a 90-day subscription to the INMED International Public Health Self-Paced Course is $29.

This four-week course will run from November 12 – December 7 and will overlap with the 2012 mHealth Summit in the Washington, DC area.This course will examine how mobile technologies are revolutionizing approaches to patient management, health education, diagnostics, and logistics. Through case studies, guest expert interviews, multimedia tutorials, interactive exercises, and live demonstrations of tools, participants will explore topics like SMS (text message) communication programs, smartphone applications, and health information systems for data collection and management.

This course will discuss the best practices associated with conducting short-term medical missions, including: team development and setting goals, how to prepare a team for the mission field, the role of non-medical persons and ethical obligations.

This online course will focus on public health issues that affect populations troubled by disasters, both natural disasters and from conflicts. Learning modules focus on the nature of disasters, how they affect lives and livelihoods, the diseases which occur, and how to respond to the basic public health needs of a population.

MedicalSpanish.com provides courses for healthcare workers interested in learning Spanish. They also have free resources including a medical Spanish dictionary, anatomical illustrations in Spanish and cultural topics.

• Each course course has 25 chapters. In each chapter you learn 8 key phrases that you will use every day. Everything is designed to help you communicate with your Spanish–speaking patients.
• Courses are online. There are no CDs or programs to install. For each chapter there are six learning activities. Each activity takes about 5-10 minutes to complete.
• Activities 1-4 help you learn the material for that chapter. Activities 5-6 are cumulative reviews.

This 3-part timeline-based course will focus on 1.) What type of global health experience is right for you? 2.) How to best prepare for your global health experience, and 3.) Identify strategies for effectively “reintegrating” into your home and work life upon returning from a global health experience.

This is the 9th annual week-long course for physicians, medical trainees, public health practitioners, nurses and other healthcare workers who intend to practice in the tropics, resource-limited settings or who require an update on infectious, parasitic and other major tropical diseases.

This self-study curriculum offers 7 modules and is intended for physicians and other health care providers interested in tropical medicine, travelers’ health, immigrant and refugee health, health care in resource-poor areas, or in responding to humanitarian emergencies.

Surgery has not always been considered a global health priority, but the global health community has recently recognized that surgical conditions form a significant burden of disease and have cost-effective interventions. This online course discusses the global burden of surgical disease, surgery in resource-poor settings, surgical workforce and task shifting, as well as the ethics of surgical care in resource-poor settings.