Congratulations to Lacey Menkin, MD, a resident in the MUSC Emergency Medicine Division, who presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly regarding her team’s research findings on the diagnosis of malaria at a clinic in Uganda.
Global Health News and Events
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MUSC Emergency Medicine Resident Presents Malaria Research Findings
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MUSC Students Around the Globe
Ever wonder why global health matters to MUSC students? Check out what some of the former Center for Global Health travel grant recipients had to say about how an overseas experience shaped their perceptions about practicing health care in the U.S.
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Center for Global Health 2016 Travel Grant Finalists Announced
Trainee Travel Grant Awardees |
A world beyond Grey's Anatomy: Reflections from Ashley Hall students
Tackling HIV and diabetes in Tanzania. Battling Ebola on the front lines of West Africa. Fighting global tobacco. These aren’t the typical topics most high school students learn about in their ninth grade biology class. But Allison Sill Bowden isn’t your typical teacher at Ashley Hall. “Our class is currently studying about bacterial and viral infections, but I was eager to expose my students to some of the most pressing health |
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MUSC Global Health Symposium November 3-4, 2015
Tuesday, November 3
8:00 am Registration and Coffee 8:30 am Welcome |
MUSC Advocate Takes on Sickle Cell Disease
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An Inside View of Medical Mission in Honduras
By Shakira Lynn |
Student Reflection from the Field: Elizabeth Bernard
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Reflections from Thomonde, Haiti: Melissa Hite
By Melissa Hite
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MUSC nurse exposes family to mission work in Mombasa, Kenya
By Matthew Husband
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The developed world has a surplus of knowledge, expertise and technological innovation at its disposal.
It is difficult to begin to describe how truly wonderful my trip to Uganda was. As I sit to write this reflection, I am still in amazement that I was able to have this experience, see the sites and patients that I saw, and meet so many magnificent people. It provided more educational and personal growth than I could have ever imagined.
Joining Service Learners International (SLI) as a first year in medical school was not an easy decision, as there were many enticing opportunities for that “last summer of life”; however, I valued its foundation as a student-led organization that allowed a deeper level of involvement in the trip planning and also allowed continuity in a global project for the duration of medical school. 
Residents of the developed world rarely think about the lower levels of basic need found in Maslow’s Hierarchy. At its nadir, the hierarchy explains a requirement for things like water, food and shelter—physiological maintenance factors - that come easy in higher-income countries. Travel to East Africa, however, and you will see the daily energy expense of meeting these most basic of needs.