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Resources
The Mayo International Health Program has compiled a broad range of resources to help you prepare for your rotation in an underserved international community.
For Mayo Clinic employees
These links are for Mayo faculty, residents, fellows and other staff.
Where indicated with an asterisk (*), you must be logged in to the Mayo Clinic network by being on campus or connected by virtual private network (VPN).
Learning
Service opportunities
- Mayo Clinic Abroad opportunities* for Mayo Clinic employees
- Christian Medical & Dental Associations
- Samaritan's Purse International Relief: World Medical Mission
- Unite for Sight
Travel medicine care
For Mayo Clinic employees and the public
Clinical cases
- Cases from the 2011 Gorgas Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine
- Dr. Bobbi Pritt's Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites
Conferences, seminars and courses
- Global Health Medicine (University of Minnesota)
- Global health conferences
- Tropical medicine courses
Online learning
- Unite for Sight Global Health University certificate programs
- Global Health Medicine online courses (University of Minnesota)
- Global Health eLearning Center (USAID)
- Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health (University of Pittsburgh)
Books to bring
- "Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children," by the World Health Organization
- "Primary Surgery Volume 1: Non-Trauma," editors Maurice King, et al. (Second edition available in PDF only.)
- "Primary Surgery Volume 2: Trauma," by Maurice H. King
- "Surgical Care at the District Hospital (PDF)," by the World Health Organization (Textbook of essential surgery for primary care physicians.)
- "Handbook of Medicine in Developing Countries," by Dennis Palmer, D.O., et al. (Target audience: Doctors and other clinicians going on short-term or long medical trips.)
- "Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine," editors Andrew Brent, et al. (Target audience: Residents and practicing clinicians in the West or majority world. Part of the Oxford Handbook Series, a classic series of handbooks used and respected widely in Anglophone Africa.)
- "Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine," by Nick Beeching, et al. (Target audience: Students and practitioners of tropical medicine. This is a 30-year classic from the Liverpool School that uses bullet-point outlines, tables, boxes and lists extensively for easier lookup.)
- "Common Medical Problems in the Tropics," by C.R. Schull (Target audience: Paramedical workers in majority world countries. Gives approach to diagnosis of presenting symptoms within a resource-limited setting.)
Country context of care orientation
- Gapminder (Karolinska Institutet)
- Global Health Policy (Kaiser Family Foundation)
- International Travel and Health (World Health Organization)
- Millennium Development Goals (United Nations)
- Teaching-aids At Low Cost (nonprofit book and resource store)
- Travelers' Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)