Table 1.

Components of the Weill Cornell Global Health Curriculum (GHC) at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC)

Component	Duration	Audience	Requirements and assessments for GHC enrollment	Concomitance of GHC and WCMC requirements for the MD degree	Student completion: years: numbers*
Courses
Introduction to Global Health: A Case-Based Approach	14 weeks, 28 hours	WCMC first-year students	Attendance (75%) Anonymous feedback forms Participation in final class case competition	No credit toward MD degree	98 total 2009–2010: 29 2010–2011: 34 2011–2012: 35
Foundations in Global Service	5–7 weeks, 7.5 hours	WCMC first-year students	Attendance (75%) Anonymous feedback forms Summer experience feedback submission for electronic project database	No credit toward MD degree	64 total 2009–2010: 20 2010–2011: 23 2011–2012: 21¶
Global Health: Clinical Skills for Resource-Poor Settings	2 weeks, 80 hours	Any fourth-year students	Attendance (100%) Diagnostic clinical examination using situational case studies Anonymous feedback forms	Elective credit toward MD degree	24 total† 2009–2010: 8 2010–2011: 8 2011–2012: 8
Experiential learning
Global Health Preceptorship	7 weeks, 28 hours	WCMC first-year students	Reflection session(s) Anonymous feedback forms 1- to 2-page reflection paper	Credit for one first-year clinical preceptorship requirement for the MD degree	113 total 2009–2010: 37 2010–2011: 35 2011–2012: 41
Applied Experiences (i.e., hands-on experiences in the field, office, and/or lab)	Full-time study/experience at least four weeks in length	WCMC first-, third-, and/or fourth-year students	Two Applied Experiences are required. Of the two, one must be a field experience (international or domestic) Evaluation of student by mentee Abstract submission for electronic project database	Elective credit toward MD degree awarded for fourth-year Applied Experiences only	78 total 2009–2010: 32‡ 2010–2011: 26§ 2011–2012: 20**
Lecture series and seminars
Global Health Grand Rounds	9 sessions, 1 hour per session	Public Video linked to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York	50% attendance (during first year only)	No credit toward MD degree	80 total 2009–2010: 32 2010–2011: 25 2011–2012: 23
Global Health Career Seminar	Variable per year, 1 hour per session	Students and medical residents	Optional	No credit toward MD degree	NA

^*The student completion column lists the number of students who have met the requirements for the specified GHC component by academic year of completion.

^†Students represented ten medical schools.

^‡Twelve of the 32 were not enrolled in the GHC.

^§One of the 26 was not enrolled in the GHC.

^¶Three of 21 were physician assistant students.

^**Eight of the 20 were not enrolled in the GHC.