The development of the Global Health Initiative is a significant step towards addressing pressing health care needs, educating young doctors in global health issues and encouraging the growth of primary care doctors. The world is in need of sustainable health care, with a greater need in under-resourced countries. People around the globe need doctors - not only doctors who are well educated and highly trained, but doctors who are excited about what they do every day. We strive to help mentor the physicians of tomorrow by meeting today’s health care needs. Since 2008, the Global Health Initiative has funded over 200 medical students to serve in 23 different resource-limited countries around the world. Student demand is amazing and growing every year.

Your help with our new Global Health Initiative serves to give our students at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine an educational experience that will inspire them throughout their medical career.

Download the GHI brochure

The New England Journal for Medicine
An International Service Corps for Health - An Unconventional Prescription for Diplomacy

Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Eight Years of the Mayo International Health Program: What an International Elective Adds to Resident Education

The Robert Graham Center
Specialty and Geographic Distribution of the Physician Workforce: What influences medical student & resident choices?

American College of Physicians
The Impending Collapse of Primary Care Medicine

USA Today
Medical Miscalculation Creates Doctor Shortage

The New England Journal of Medicine
Easing the Shortage in Adult Primary Care - Is It All about Money?

Chicago Lake Shore Medical Associates’ funding link for medical students:
Feinberg School of Medicine - Center for Global Health

An example and sample of an approved clinical site for FSM students:
Hillside Clinic in Belize

For further reading, please see Factors Associated With Medical Students’ Career Choices Regarding Internal Medicine JAMA, September 10, 2008 – Vol. 300, No. 10.