Addis Ababa University School of Medicine and Black Lion Hospital and Education Center - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Global Health Program
Addis Ababa University School of Medicine and Black Lion Hospital and Education Center – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This elective clerkship will enable fourth-year medical students to gain four to eight
weeks clinical experience in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings at Black
Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The students will live
in an apartment/dormitory facilities within walking distance of the hospital. An
additional alternative may be an opportunity to stay with one of the faculty members
who will be responsible for transportation both to and from the hospital daily.
Students will have the opportunity to work with attending physicians in a variety of specialties including:
- Emergency Medicine
- Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases
- General Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- and other medical/surgical specialties
The student’s clinical experience will focus on primarily one of the above areas based on the student’s interest and availability of supervised service in that specialty. Student will be expected to manage a variety of problems. Specifically the student will learn to integrate the knowledge of clinical disease entities, both medical and surgical. These disease entities will include but are not limited to; trauma and acute surgical disease, oncology, cardiology/acute coronary disease, pulmonary disease/acute infectious disease entities, acute neurology emergencies, gastrointestinal disorders, endocrinology and renal/urologic disorders.
Length of Clerkship: Four weeks with longer rotations possible
For additional details view the Clerkship Description (clerkship/rotation description,
housing, transportation, language, insurance, costs, and cultural activities) and
the Elective Curriculum (elective description, length, educational objectives, instructional
methods, and evaluation):
