Identifying International Leadership Competencies in Medical Education.

Internationalization of medical education must be a part of medical education, in order to ensure that worldwide healthcare issues can be solved collaboratively. To date, medical educators have not agreed upon what skills students should obtain via internationalization of medical education. Medical leadership skills are of increasing importance in both academia and clinical practice.

Health profession students' outlooks on the medical profession during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global perspective.

Background: This article summarizes a global study of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on junior health professions students' outlook on medicine. The pandemic has significantly affected health professions education. There is limited understanding of how students' pandemic experiences will affect them, and what impact these events may have on their career paths or the future of the professions.

Universal health care in middle-income countries: Lessons from four countries.

Background: In this paper, we review lessons learned about Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in middle-income countries, with specific reference to achievements and challenges observed during recent years in four middle-income to upper-middle-income countries - Mexico, Turkey, The Republic of Korea and Ukraine. Three of these countries - Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Turkey are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Ukraine has aspired to join Western institutions like the OECD since its independence in 1991.

Health Care Expenditures Associated With Pollution: Exploratory Methods and Findings.

Background: The research done for this paper is part of the background analysis undertaken to support the work of the Global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development, an initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The paper expands on areas where the current literature has gaps in knowledge related to the health care cost of pollution.

Objectives: This study aims to generate an initial estimate of total tangible health care expenditure attributable to man-made pollution affecting air, soil and water.