The Dartmouth Global Emergency Medicine program seeks to develop residents imbued with a broader global perspective through didactics in global health, tropical medicine, and social determinants of health. There are a variety of elective opportunities both nationally and internationally in resource-constrained settings, serving different patient populations and in varying clinical environments which are available for interested residents and those in the global emergency medicine track. The mission of the Global Emergency Medicine program at Dartmouth is one of education and human resource capacity building through shared knowledge and experience.
To view information on program faculty, please visit the Global Health faculty page.
Elective opportunities
Dartmouth Emergency Medicine residents have the opportunity to participate in multiple different elective rotations:
Bhutan
The Bhutan clinical and teaching elective involves traveling to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, accompanied by a Dartmouth faculty member, and working in the Emergency Department of the National Referral Hospital. This opportunity is rooted in a longstanding and bi-directional relationship with the Emergency Medicine residency program at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences in Bhutan. Despite the geographic distance, these 2 residency programs have numerous similarities in that both serve as primary tertiary care referral centers amid a large rural catchment area, and both serve rural regions often with long transport times and backed by strong aeromedical pre-hospital care teams. This provides immersive exposure to different clinical environments and bidirectional sharing of clinical knowledge and perspectives.
Vietnam
Dartmouth Emergency Medicine residents have the opportunity to teach at the Vietnamese Society for Emergency Medicine and Critical Care conference each fall in a different city in Vietnam. Residents can give a didactic talk, teach in a workshop, teach in a medical student workshop and/or participate in symposia with Vietnamese physicians, residents and medical students. This is a structured collaborative effort, with an ultimate goal to help the Vietnamese direct their own conference, so there is opportunity for teaching as well as organizational work.
Indian Health Service
Residents have various elective opportunities at Indian Health Service (IHS) sites. Prior residents have rotated at the IHS emergency departments in Tuba City, Arizona, and Shiprock, New Mexico. This provides an opportunity to work in a different patient and clinical environment helping to build an understanding of the breadth of emergency medicine practice environments after trainings.