Education Programs

The Office of International Programs is the core of the medical center's global education efforts, which include:

• Clinical and research electives in more than two dozen countries
• Faculty exchange programs
• International student programs
• Assisting with conference attendance outside the U.S.
• A variety of activities and events, including:
  • A KU Medical Center International Meet and Greet at the beginning of each semester
  • International fellowship and scholarship advising sessions
  • Clinical Culture and Diversity Series
  • Culture Hour — a casual forum for students and faculty to discuss culture
  • Global Connections program
  • International Education Week — a weeklong series of events each November 

Other Global Education Efforts

• Robinson Scholars — This program is for students who want to complete an International Education Experience at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. Students from the School of Health Professions are eligible to apply for a scholarship to complete an elective rotation during the summer, and School of Medicine and School of Nursing students can apply for an International Elective Rotation that occurs during February of their final year.
• Clendening Summer Fellowship — Eight to 10 medical students pursue independent research between their first and second years of medical school. Clendening Fellows have studied such diverse topics as risk factors for HIV transmission in Addis Ababa; the use of traditional therapeutics in the Tibetan Autonomous region of China; the archeology of ancient Greek healing shrines; personal narratives as healing among children orphaned by AIDS in Nigeria; the 16-century dissolution of parish hospitals under Henry VIII; heroin addiction and treatment programs in Mombasa, Kenya; and oral histories of the integration of East and West German health systems in Berlin.
• Kansas-Paraguay Partnership KU School of Medicine-Wichita's Family and Community Medicine department's longtime partnership with Paraguay.
• Health Care and Social Policies in Sweden — Summer course offered through the University of Kansas and taught by KU Medical Center faculty. Open to undergraduate and graduate students from any accredited U.S. college or university with an interest in health care, or social policies. Also open to interested professionals in the field.

Residency and Fellowship Programs

• Neurology/Neurosurgery VMR Resident Scholarship program supports a month-long International Educational Experience
• Department of Otolaryngology international outreach
• Department of Plastic, Wound and Burn Surgery international outreach
• Department of Pediatrics residents may choose to spend one week per year with Heart To Heart International or Medical Mission Foundation in Haiti, Guatemala or Belize