Table 6.

Examples of investigated topics during the community immersion clerkship

Topics investigated locally (Geneva)

Topics investigated in a developing country

Health in detention Health and prostitution Health of refugees Health of clandestine workers Domestic violence Burn-out Autism Measles AIDS Pro/contra vaccination Blindness Deafness Abortion Infertility Breast cancer Melanoma Children living with a handicap Childhood obesity Pain in chronic childhood diseases Senile dementia Palliative care Euthanasia Alcohol consumption Addiction to illegal substances Smoking Alternative medicines Nosocomial infections Emergency Rights of the psychiatric patient Organ transplantation

Diabetes in rural Benin Malaria in Kenya Vaccination campaign in Senegal Access to health structures in a township in South Africa Nosocomial infections in Bamako, Mali AIDS prevention in Gabon Epilepsy in Equator Health in a favela in Brazil Chaga's disease in Argentina AIDS in Bolivia Access to safe birth in Nicaragua Children living with a handicap in Peru Access to water in rural India Mother and child health in Calcutta, India Violence against women Health of street children in Mumbai, India Tuberculosis in Nepal Health of street children in Mongolia Children living with HIV in Thailand Health of orphans in Cambodia Access to health care in Manila, Philippines Children living with a handicap in Vietnam Health of refugees in Lebanon Nosocomial infections in Armenia Tuberculosis in Romania Addiction in Sweden Health of native populations in Australia