GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS ABROAD

Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing

Northwestern University has been offering a medical exchange with Capital University since the summer of 2003. In addition to medical student training, the University has a Faculty of Public Health, several research institutes, and eleven affiliated hospitals in Beijing , including the CDC Hospital and the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine . The hospitals specialize in various fields such as basic medicine, neuroscience, urology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, geriatrics, and otolaryngology. First year and fourth year medical students can participate in clinical rotations, experience a working rural clinic, and attend lectures on public health issues. MPH students may conduct field work in public health, supervised by CU faculty. Housing is available on the medical campus. Northwestern also runs a successful undergraduate summer program in public health at Capital University.

Makerere University, Kampala

Our agreement with Makerere University begins in the summer of 2008. Several housing options are available on campus, and the Medical School is located next to the Institute of Public Health and Mulago Hospital. Details of the program will be finalized soon.

Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City

Northwestern University has been formally affiliated with Universidad Panamericana (UP) since 2000. We have hosted 4-6 UP students in our clinical electives each year, and 4-6 first and fourth year Northwestern medical students have participated in clinical rotations at UP each year.. UP is affiliated with a number of the major hospitals in Mexico City, including the “national” hospitals (the equivalent of the NIH clinical centers in Bethesda). There are also two new rural clinics in indigenous areas of Central Mexico, where UP students spend their sixth, service-oriented year of medical school. Most of the opportunities available to FSM students would incorporate portions of the UP third and fourth year curriculum, with didactic sessions in a specialty area coupled with afternoon clinical experiences. The curriculum is conducted in Spanish. Public Health research is also available to MPH students. Among the notable aspects of the specialty experiences, there is a dermatology hospital where leprosy and other conditions uncommon in this country are seen on a routine basis.

Stellenbosch University Medical School, Cape Town

Over the past three years, Northwestern University has sent ten M1 and M4 students to Stellenbosch University for clinical and research electives. The Stellenbosch Faculty of Health Sciences enrolls 3,000 graduate and undergraduate students and comprises four Schools: Allied Health Sciences, Basic and Applied Health Sciences (Pathology and Biomedical Sciences), Medicine, and Public and Primary Health Sciences. The Stellenbosch University Medical School/Tygerberg Hospital complex is located 30 minutes from the main university campus and 20 minutes from Cape Town. Housing in available on campus.

Previous students have completed rotations in pediatrics, obstetrics, trauma, gynecology, and community health, as well as in rural health through the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health.

Legal Exchange Program with Universidad Panamericana

IPD and the Bluhm Legal Clinic co-sponsor an eight-week summer program for law students interested in learning about the Mexican legal system, getting hands-on legal experience in a foreign country, and improving their legal Spanish. The program is hosted by our partner institution in Mexico City, Universidad Panamericana.

Students train in various areas of the Mexican legal system, work in the legal clinic of Universidad Panamericana (Bufete Jurídico), and visit courts and legal institutions.