INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD EXPERIENCE IN RURAL BELIZE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PHY ASST 662 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate history and physical exam skills with a culturally sensitive approach that permits accurate diagnostic evaluation Audience: Graduate 2. Identify predominant cross-cultural and underserved issues in primary care, and appreciate how this knowledge can be utilized in the practice of medicine in the participants’ home country Audience: Graduate 3. Recognize and implement cost-effective approaches to providing health care in a resource-limited setting Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate interdisciplinary team work (communication, negotiation, respect for group dynamics, and conflict resolution) and describe how an interdisciplinary approach to care contributes to improved patient outcomes Audience: Graduate 5. Examine Belizean culture through rural connections, community interactions, and guided cultural excursions. Discuss this relationship to the concept of Global to Local Audience: Graduate 6. Discuss the structure of the health care system in Belize from the role of the traditional medicinal healer to the community health worker and primary health care physician Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate history and physical exam skills with a culturally sensitive approach that permits accurate diagnostic evaluation Audience: Graduate 2. Identify predominant cross-cultural and underserved issues in primary care, and appreciate how this knowledge can be utilized in the practice of medicine in the participants’ home country Audience: Graduate 3. Recognize and implement cost-effective approaches to providing health care in a resource-limited setting Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate interdisciplinary team work (communication, negotiation, respect for group dynamics, and conflict resolution) and describe how an interdisciplinary approach to care contributes to improved patient outcomes Audience: Graduate 5. Examine Belizean culture through rural connections, community interactions, and guided cultural excursions. Discuss this relationship to the concept of Global to Local Audience: Graduate 6. Discuss the structure of the health care system in Belize from the role of the traditional medicinal healer to the community health worker and primary health care physician Audience: Graduate