Global Training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Global Training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
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Project Site Location
UIC
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Partner Organization(s)
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Global Health Interest Group
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UIC CGH Faculty Contact
Sarah Boudova
Project/Activity Summary
Global health training enhances clinical knowledge, strengthens communication skills, promotes personal and professional development, and increases academic collaboration. It is increasingly recognized as an important and desirable aspect of medical education. While most global health education has focused on medical students or residents there is a great need for fellowship-trained clinicians globally. This is particularly urgent in obstetrics. Roughly 20 million pregnancies globally are classified as high-risk requiring maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) expertise.
This study aims to:
- Characterize global health education during MFM fellowship through a standardized national survey of MFM Program Directors and semi-structured interviews with a subset of these PDs. Through this mixed-methods approach, we hope to characterize and classify existing global health training in MFM, identify gaps and barriers to this training, and examine ways to improve MFM global health training.
- Map the global distributions of MFM training programs and MFMs, characterizing the scope of training provided.