Benefits
What the Global Health Track at Tulane can do for your career:
The RIGHT program will help residents prepare for careers in a multitude of fields, including: clinical infectious diseases, the CDC’s Epidemiologic Investigative Service, overseas medical and missionary work, refugee health, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), or research programs in travel and tropical medicine. *In the time of COVID, international and travel outside of Louisiana may be limited. The RIGHT Program will be structured according to Tulane School of Medicine and CDC guidelines*
As a RIGHT resident, you will have access to educational resources through the School of Public Health’s Tropical Medicine and Global Health divisions. There is limited funding available for these trips, however if you are not meeting the requirements funding will not be provided.
The track combines five core components:
- Education
- Monthly seminar series (must attend 60% of the seminars to pass)
- On-line 3-year curriculum
- Monthly seminar series (must attend 60% of the seminars to pass)
- Mentorship
- One-on-one mentor with experience in global health
- One-on-one mentor with experience in global health
- International rotation
- Three months (total) working at one or more international sites (Due to COVID-19, international travel is on hold)
- RIGHT mentors are working with local agencies to provide global health and health equity sites for training.
- Write up of experience after each travel event
- Scholarly project
- Mentor-approved project in an area of interest in global health or health equity
- Mentor-approved project in an area of interest in global health or health equity
- Local clinical experience
- Travel medicine clinic
- Opportunities for collaborating with local clinics serving immigrant populations
