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. 2020 Nov 19;5(11):e003362. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003362

Table 1.

Global Health course offers within the medical curriculum at Charité

Global Health course offers Teaching units Approach Focal point Target group
Elective classes
 ES—Charité goes global—primary healthcare, global health and infectious diseases (M24) 60 All All B
 ES—Emergency and Disaster Medicine (M24) 60 All All B
 ES—Tropical Medicine (M24) 60 All All B
 ES—Global Health—medical profession in globalising times 26 All All B
 ES—Medicine: worldwide perspectives and limitations 26 All All B
 EMSR—Berlin—Nairobi exchange program (M 23) 33 All All B
Core classes
 LEC migrants in medical care (M6) 2 TEC Local C
 LEC medicine and responsibility: climate change 1 TEC Glo-cal C
 LEC intervention strategies for epidemic diseases (M18) 2 SEC Local C
 LEC emerging pathogens (M18) 2 SEC Glo-cal C
 LEC HIV/AIDS: epidemiology and prevention (globally and regionally) (M35) 2 TEC Glo-cal C
 MSL LEC—How do global health sciences work? 2 SJ Global C
 MSL LEC—closing gaps—primary healthcare and access to medicines in Global Health (Part 1) 1 TEC Glo-cal C
 MSL LEC—closing gaps —primary healthcare and access to medicines in Global Health (Part 2) 1 SJ Glo-cal C
 MSL LEC—climate change—impacts on population health and intervention strategies 2 TEC Global C
 MSL LEC—emergency and disaster medicine—local and global help (part 1) 1 SEC Glo-cal C
 MSL LEC—emergency and disaster medicine—local and global help (part 2) 1 SEC Local C
 MSL LEC—medicine for and with refugees (part 1) 1 HUM Local C
 MSL LEC—medicine for and with refugees (part 2) 1 SJ Local C
 MSL LEC—from malaria to ebola: infection and epidemic control worldwide (part 1) 1 TEC Global C
 MSL LEC—from malaria to ebola: infection and epidemic control worldwide (part 2) 1 TEC Glo-cal C
 PT access to healthcare without barriers for migrants (M6) 3 SJ Local C

Teaching unit: 1 teaching unit = 45 min, A = “The passionate about Global Health”, B = “Those interested in Global Health”, C = “The vast majority”.

EMSR, Elective module scientific research; ENT, entrepreneurial approach; ES, elective seminar; HUM, humanitarian approach; LEC, lecture; MSL, module supporting lectures; PT, practical training; SEC, security approach; SJ, social justice approach; TEC, technical approach.