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The Yale University International Health Program was founded
in 1981 by Drs. Michele Barry and Frank Bia in an attempt to
inspire a more global vision of health care in a traditional
internal medicine residency program. By placing physicians trained
in the US face-to-face with the broad range of health care needs
in the developing world, the Yale International Health Program
(IHP) hoped to instill a sense of global citizenry and create
local and international community activists in health.
During the past 20 years over 300 residents-in-training
have participated in this unique program by working and teaching
in underserved areas throughout the world. These rotations
offer unusual opportunities for residents to enrich their
knowledge and practice of medicine in settings with few resources.
A study of Yale graduates of this program confirmed that IHP
physicians were more likely than their counterparts to demonstrate
social concern within their clinical practices as measured
by their commitment to serve poor and immigrant populations.
The Yale/Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholars in International
Health Program was thus conceived with the goals of:
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expanding
the existing Yale IHP to physicians in residency training
from leading U.S. hospitals and universities, and |
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offering
overseas opportunities to more experienced career physicians.
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In addition, this program will maintain a strong alumni network
to promote future partnerships between host countries, universities
and physician scholars in international health.
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