When public health messages become stressful: Managing chronic disease during COVID-19.

To curb the spread of COVID-19, the United States has endorsed a variety of public health measures and distributed their content expediently. While these measures are critical for saving the lives of thousands, they may be sources of stress for individuals managing a chronic disease or make disease management more challenging. Forty-five percent of Americans live with chronic disease and already manage a range of everyday stressors related to their disease, making the additional stress produced by this public health guidance and their messages more difficult.

A case for an international health elective training program during residency: a four-points call for action.

Background: International Health Electives (IHE) are becoming more popular among graduate training programs. This is likely due to the high demands from graduating medical students who are seeking to have an international health experience during their post-graduate training. Despite the important educational experiences associated with an IHE, this opportunity does not exist in all graduate medical programs and fewer have formal established programs.

An international health elective in Haiti: a case for osteopathic medicine.

As global health education becomes increasingly important, more physicians are participating in international health electives (IHEs). Haiti is a favorable site for an IHE because of its substantial health care needs and rich culture. Although both osteopathic and allopathic physicians can provide effective health care to Haitians, osteopathic physicians may be particularly well suited to serve in Haiti because of their training in osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT).

Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians: a mixed methods survey of clinician-researchers and health policy leaders.

Background: Interest and participation in global health activities among U.S. medical trainees has increased sharply in recent decades, yet the global health activities of physicians who have completed residency training remain understudied.

International health electives: strengthening graduate medical education.

An international health elective (IHE) can be an important component of the medical education and professional development of a physician. It provides essential global health skills that are crucial in a globalized society. Graduate medical education has an opportunity to deliver such skills to our health care workforce while addressing the pending workforce shortage and the uneven distribution of primary care physicians across the United States.