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Office of Student Affairs
Harkness Hall, ESH 219
367 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510
USA
Student Affairs
203.785.2644
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203.785.2643
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203.785.2645
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203.785.6633
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Education: OSA: International
International Studies
Second Floor, E.S. Harkness Hall
367 Cedar Street, Room 214
Phone: 203-785-5937
Yale provides many exceptional opportunities for students and members of the
faculty to participate in international activities in medicine, nursing,
public health and biomedical research. Students travel abroad throughout
the academic year to carry out research, participate in global
health programs and/or take clinical electives. In addition, clinical
electives at Yale are open throughout the year at the School of Medicine
to visiting international medical students who are in their final year
of studies. The many international students who participate in this program
meaningfully enhance education and culture at the University and the School
of Medicine. A medical schoolmate program, a program that matches medical
students who have academic, athletic or cultural interests in common,
encourages friendships between visiting medical students and Yale students.
The Office of International Health and Student Programs serves as a resource
to assist Yale faculty and students in Medicine, Nursing and Public Health.
It administers the clinical
elective program for visiting international medical students and coordinates
opportunities for Yale students who wish to carry out research or take
clinical electives
abroad. The office also provides logistical support information concerning
welfare and safety in overseas settings, and evacuation/repatriation insurance.
Students and faculty voluntarily provide facts about their travel, study
sites and time abroad for the office archives.
The office assists students and faculty in their efforts to develop networks
abroad and serves as a clearinghouse for details about research and clinical
opportunities overseas. It maintains a database of international health
programs and publishes a newsletter designed
to facilitate and coordinate exchanges among people involved in international
health projects. The administrator provides information about the Wilbur
G. Downs International Health Student Travel Fellowship, the Norman
Herzig Fellowship, and the Albert Sweitzer Fellowship.
The office administers the Yale Project for Health Action (YPHA) established by Dean David A. Kessler in 1999. This project has led to a partnership between the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and Yale which works to empower under-resourced South African communities and improve local health outcomes, particularly around HIV/AIDS. This is accomplished through direct project activities in South Africa as well as through training and development opportunities both to international partners and members of the Yale community. Recent YPHA activities have included designing and implementing a life skills/HIV education curriculum for South African high school students, conducting a situation analysis of home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa, and bringing fourth- and sixth-year medical students from the University of the Witwatersrand to Yale for elective courses and an exchange of perspectives on care for patients with HIV/AIDS.
The office also works with the Yale-Cambridge Program. The primary goal of this program is to develop mutually beneficial educational and research collaborations between Yale School of Medicine, especially the Department of Medicine and the University of Cambridge School of Medicine. Students at the end of their third year may apply to complete their Primary Care Clerkship in Cambridge, England.
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