| Title | From Passion to Skill: A Platform for Development of an Interdisciplinary Global Health Curriculum at UBC |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Medicine |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 1 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2008 |
| Completion | 03/31/2009 |
| Project Summary | The global health initiative is an innovative student-driven project that will translate the abstract concept of global health and citizenship into consensus learning objectives enabling the principles, opportunities, and obligations of global citizenship to be introduced to the students in any faculty. With Year 1 TLEF funds (preceded by a needs assessment and pilot year) we demonstrated success (most defined objectives met or exceeded) and validated the effectiveness of our methodology for student involvement, mentorship, knowledge transfer and continuity. Year 2 will use three validated components to increase our capacity and scope: 1) the global health skill-building workshop series (open to all students/faculty) 2) student participation in global health projects that provide ‘real world’ experience and 3) evaluation, gap analysis and engagement of students involved in 1 and 2 to promote student awareness, achieve knowledge transfer and drive curriculum development. With Year 2 funding we will meet out principal goal of delivering the consensus learning objectives and curriculum outline necessary to enable the ‘passion’ of references to global citizenship in UBC’s Trek 2010 mission statement to be translated into actual ‘skill’ acquisition by students. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2008/2009 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Andrew Macnab |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 72,400 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Andrew Macnab, Professor, Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine |