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Overview
The Global Health Primer for Doctors course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will provide a foundational knowledge base, teach relevant critical skills, and generate a network of clinicians to prepare you for future work within the field.
What you will study
- This is a fully online course, with a mix of asynchronous activities, as well as live sessions which we strongly encourage you to attend.
- Much of the teaching has been designed to be interactive, to enable you to (virtually) meet other students on the course and to develop networks whilst gaining fundamental learning for a foundation in global health.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- To define global health and issues pertaining to global health such as health inequity within the current world landscape
- To develop critical analysis and appraisal skills and apply this to scientific papers relevant to global health, and to break this down to a digestible level for local communities
- To analyse clinical scenarios and create appropriate investigative and management plans for parasitological infections
- To discuss public health strategies for the control of parasitic infections
- To analyse disease elimination and eradication strategies and identify appropriate diseases to be targeted for this
- To develop a network of like-minded people, interested in global health, who can learn from each other and work together to solve problems
- To develop teamworking skills within the online environment
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 6 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Public Health Health Administration View 31 other Short Courses in Health Administration in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Any early-career doctor who would like to work within the field of global health, or who has an interest in global health and would like to learn more.
- As the course delivery is fully online, we expect our audience to be one which continues to work full-time throughout the course, remaining in their home country (or the country in which they work), allowing them to continue to earn a living whilst also studying part-time on an affordable, high-quality course.
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents840 GBP / full≈ 840 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents840 GBP / full≈ 840 GBP / full
Additional Details
- £840 for high income countries
- £420 for upper middle income countries
- £210 for lower middle income countries and low income countries
Funding
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