Table 1.

Didactic Curriculum for Health Frontiers in Tijuana (HFiT), A Binational Student Run Free Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico

COURSE TOPICS
• Course Overview, requirements and outline
• Scheduling clinic rotations
• Travel Safety
• Student safety and travel requirements for Tijuana Mexico [U.S. students]
• Question answer panel with (repeat) students
• Electronic Medical Record
• Medical history/ SOAP Notes/ Confidentiality/Safety
• Physical Exam
• Cultural competency [U.S. students]
• Substance abuse in the Zona Norte, Tijuana.
• Congenital syphilis in Hospital General de Tijuana
• Health care and health policy in Mexico
• Provider cultural competency
• Social resources in Mexico
• The Binational patient
• Infection Control in health care settings in the US and Mexico
• Case studies: TB outbreak at Hospital General de Tijuana
• Legal aspects of clinical practice in Mexico
• Case studies
• Migration and Health
• Deportation and substance use and HIV risk behaviors
• Cross-border collaboration between clinician-researchers for better patient outcomes: Case studies.
• Student as Teacher
• Community health
• The community as Teacher
• Course Wrap up
• Case studies
• Lessons learned
• Look to the future