date: 25 Nov 2016
The Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP)
is a joint initiative with the Peace Corps, the U.S. President’s Plan for AIDS
Relief (PEPFAR), and Seed Global Health that partners with countries to help
them overcome critical shortages of health providers and build strong,
sustainable health systems. GH
SP places nurses and physicians as visiting faculty
in nursing and medical schools in Liberia,
Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania,
and Uganda.
GHSP Physician Educators are
posted overseas as Peace Corps Response Volunteers to serve as visiting
faculty; they teach and work alongside local faculty to expand capacity,
strengthen the quality and breadth of medical education, provide improved
health professional development opportunities, and importantly, improve care
for vulnerable patients.
To assure cultural integration,
GHSP Physician Educators are paired with host country counterparts. Together
with their counterparts and other faculty colleagues, GHSP Physician Educators
develop or refine locally tailored best practice approaches to medical
education and encourage a continuous culture of excellence, responsibility, and
accountability in the delivery of health care.
In partnership with host country
faculty, key Physician Educator tasks may include (but are not limited to):
- Providing classroom-based instruction to undergraduate
and post-graduate trainees, incorporating curriculum development and
student assessment, - Providing formal and informal clinical instruction to
trainees, house staff and other learners emphasizing best practice
standards (through Daily Rounds, Grand Rounds, Morbidity and Mortality
conferences, and similar means), - Modeling sound clinical diagnostic and therapeutic
bedside practice, - Modeling professional and ethical behavior in all
aspects of health care delivery and education, - Enhancing existing clinical training systems and
structures by developing and implementing innovative teaching tools, - Assisting with creating/adapting/implementing improved
clinical guidelines and/or treatment protocols when applicable, and - Organizing continuing education programs with host
country faculty.
GHSP recruits in specialties that
strive to meet the needs of partner medical schools; this has included internal
medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry,
general and orthopedic surgery, anesthesia, pathology, cardiology, emergency
medicine, pulmonary/critical care and infectious diseases.
ELIGIBILITY Volunteers are deployed for one-year
assignments beginning in July 2017. Physician applicants must be US citizens,
and board-eligible or board-certified in a clinical specialty.
BENEFITS GHSP is a Peace Corps Response program,
which offers high-impact assignments for qualified professionals. Benefits for
volunteers include monthly living stipends, transportation to and from their
country of service, comprehensive medical care, a readjustment allowance, and
paid vacation days. Seed Global Health offers debt assistance up to $30,000 for
qualified volunteers.
APPLY For more information about requirements,
qualifications, benefits, financial assistance, and the application process,
please visit: http://seedglobalhealth.org/apply.
The deadline for applications is November 25, 2016.