Reconfiguring a One-Way Street: A Position Paper on Why and How to Improve Equity in Global Physician Training

James C Hudspeth1, Tracy L Rabin, Bradley A Dreifuss

  • 1J.C. Hudspeth is assistant professor and director, Residency Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. T.L. Rabin is assistant professor of internal medicine and associate program director, Global and Community Health, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, and associate director, Office of Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. B.A. Dreifuss is assistant professor of emergency medicine and public health and director, Rural, Border, and Global Programs in Emergency Medicine, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. M. Schaaf is professor and associate director, Global Health Pathway, School of Medicine, and director, Global Outreach, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. M.S. Lipnick is assistant professor and program director, Anesthesia Global Health Fellowships, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. C.M. Russ is assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard University, and associate director, Global Health Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. A. Autry is professor and director, Graduate Medical Education, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. M.B. Pitt is associate professor and director, Global Health Education, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. V. Rowthorn is executive director, University of Maryland-Baltimore Center for Global Education Initiatives, Baltimore, Maryland.

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