- $750 stipend for travel costs to International site
- Dr. Duke Duncan – Pediatrician, Former Chair of the International Health Committee of American Academy of Pediatrics is one of the many faculty members willing to provide guidance for residents setting up international electives. He has pediatric and public health experience in Brazil, Honduras, Philippines, Swaziland, China, and India and has numerous contacts throughout the global health field. Dr. Bill Madden, Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, has clinical experience throughout Central America. Dr. Thomas Ball, Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, has clinical experience in Malawi and Mexico.
- Here’s where some of our recent residents have traveled:
- Ryan Bierer, 3rd year resident, spent a month working in Malawi with the Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric AIDS Corps, where a former UA resident is working.
- Scott Witt, 3rd year resident, spent a month working in a NICU in Puerto Rico.
- Sabrina Shih, chief resident, spent a month last year in Vientiane, Laos working with an organization called Health Frontiers. She worked on the wards/ICU at Setthathirath Hospital, which has the only peds training program in the country.
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