Eritrea 02/18/2009
Syria 02/12/2009
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 02/05/2009
Haiti 01/28/2009
Philippines 01/27/2009
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza 01/15/2009
Burundi 01/08/2009
Sri Lanka 12/22/2008
Cote d'Ivoire 12/15/2008
Georgia 12/12/2008
Zimbabwe 12/12/2008
Nigeria 12/02/2008
Nepal 11/21/2008
Pakistan 11/21/2008
Somalia 11/15/2008
Chad 11/14/2008
Kenya 11/14/2008
Yemen 11/10/2008
Sudan 10/02/2008
Iran 09/15/2008
Lebanon 09/10/2008
Afghanistan 09/10/2008
Algeria 08/22/2008
Colombia 08/07/2008
Saudi Arabia 07/09/2008
Uzbekistan 07/03/2008
Iraq 06/13/2008
Central African Republic 03/25/2008
http://www.adventisthospitals.info/
 Nuzvid: Adventist Hospital International site: Giffard Memorial Hospital in Nuzvid. Nuzvid has been blessed with the volunteer work of a physician couple from New Mexico, Betty Whatley and Gregg Manoff. (Source: AHI) Pediatric Residents may select this site for a independent rotation.
Chennai (Madras): Kanchi Kamakoti Child's Trust Hospital. Although this is not a Adventist Hospital, there are a number of US trained physicians were very keen on having pediatric residents and attendings visit for education/direct medical care. This hospital is in a very safe city. The hospital itself was quite modern with ventilators and incubators in the NICU and PICU and is the largest children's hospital in India in the private sector. Their web site is www.childstrusthospital.in and is pretty impressive. Contact Shamel Abd-Allah (sabd-Allah@ahs.llumc.edu) for more details.
 Manipal, India There is an established on-going affiliation betwen Loma Linda University and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, which is a private medical school in India. This is one of the top five medical schools in India. Manipal is located on the southwest coast of India, 250 miles from Bangalore. Manipal Academy of Higher Education has created an association of nursing, pharmacy, dental, engineering colleges and six medical schools in four countries (India, Nepal, Malasia, Antigua). There is an international school with students from 52 countries. You can go for Medicine, Pediatric rotations (inpatient, outpatient, rural program). The hospital has 800 beds. The rural program provides clinical Care for the complete family in the rural villages. Maniapl is a university town five miles from the beach. One month rotations in September to March are recommended. There are clinical research opportunities, clinical skills labs, and a wonderful new medical library. You can stay in the air conditioned dorms, next to the nice food court and swimming pool. Contact persons: Vinod.Bhat@manipal.edu or vc.mahe@manipal.edu
Short-term teams go to Yunnan, China once yearly. The next trip is Winter 2008-2009. Contact Peter Yorgin (pyorgin@llu.edu) for details.
Kayne Hospital
 Dr. David Thompson founded Bongolo Evangelical Hospital in 1977 in response to a request from The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Gabon. The hospital began as a simple dispensary with one nurse and has now grown into a district referral hospital. The Gabonese staff of 60 consists of nurses, lab technicians, maintenance staff and administration. There are three missionary doctors (Surgeon, Family Practitioner and Pediatrician) and five missionary nurses at the hospital. There are also two expatriate surgical residents, one from Angola, the other from Madagascar. Dr David Thompson heads the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS), which is a four-year residency program in general
surgery to train African doctors. The hospital has various departments, the largest being Surgery, followed by Medicine, Pediatrics, Maternity and Dentistry. It also maintains three outlying dispensaries and has an independent eye clinic. Last year the hospital performed 850 major surgeries, hospitalized 2,600 patients, saw 26,000 outpatients, did 460 deliveries and cared for 70 premature babies. (Source: Malinckrodt). Pediatric Residents may select this elective if accompanied by an attending.
Asamang Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Kumasi
Kendu Adventist Hospital Kenya
Nairobi DAGORETTI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
Madagascar - Hôpital Adventiste d'Andapa
Blantyre Adventist Hospital
Seventh-day Adventist Health Center Lilongwe
Malamulo Hospital Makwasa
Review of Malamulo Hosptial Rotation by Stacey Wiles, MD (PDF)
Community medicine rotation
Masanga Leprosy Hospital Freetown
Maluti Adventist Hospital - Ficksburg
Kibidula medical & dental clinic/family development international Iringa
Welcome Home Children's Center - Jinja
Ishaka Adventist Hospital - Bushenyi
Mwami Adventist Hospital - Chipata
Yuka Adventist Hospital - Kalabo
San Ignacio
Centro Adventista de Saude Porto Alegre, Brazil
Clinica Adventista Ana Stahl - Iquitos
Clinica Adventista de Juliaca
Bella Vista Hospital - Mayaguez
Contact Marti Baum, MD for details: mbaum@ahs.llumc.edu
The LBJ Tropical Medical Center is the only Hospital serving a total population of about 65,000 in this U.S. Island Territory which is comprised of one larger (about 25 miles long by 5 miles wide) and 6 smaller and much less inhabited islands in the South Pacific. This Public Hospital is located in the center of the main island (Tutuila), approximately 2,500 miles South/Southwest of Hawaii. It is a very lush and tropical environment with high annual rainfall and temperatures between the low 70's and mid 90's basically year around. The Medical Center has about 150 total beds with a very active Hemodialysis Unit, usually busy Surgical, Pediatric and Adult Medical as well as Maternity Wards, an 8 bed combined Adult/Pediatric ICU, and a Nursery/NICU which averages 5 births per day and deals with the full spectrum of sick Newborns as well. The most frequented Outpatient Clinics include the Medical, Pediatrics, Surgical, OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, ENT, PT, and Psychiatry Clinics, but the ER also serves as the Family Medicine Clinic/Urgent Care Center and sees approximately 40,000+ cases per year on its own. Patients generally come in only when sick or in need of something, and the population overall is very poor even by rural U.S. standards.
The population at large suffers mostly from the diseases which most afflict people in the USA nowadays as well, including Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes, but in addition there are still elements of some of the more traditional "Tropical" illnesses somewhat prevalent there as well, such as Dengue Fever Outbreaks and Lymphatic Filariasis. In the past the majority of U.S.-trained and licensed doctors who have worked there have been either from the Navy, or have come through the National Health Service Corps. either as "Scholars" or "Loan Repayors," but the vast majority of the remaining overall Medical Staff were trained first as Generalists either in places like Fiji or other local Island Nations under the British Medical School Model; therefore they have somewhat different experiences and approaches and have been forced to adapt to the high overall burden of illness with little or no Sub-Specialty training or backup. The General Pediatrics Service, for example, is currently comprised of 5 full-time and one part-time Physician(s) who cover their own patients each day on the Ward, ICU (when necessary), and the NICU/Nursery as well as staff the Clinic during regular hours from Monday through Friday; additionally they see ER Consults (usually for Admission) when necessary while on-call, currenly in a 1:5 ratio. Recently the Hospital has fully adopted the use of the U.S. Veteran's Administration "CPRS" (Computerized Patient Record System) in an attempt to eventually go entirely "paperless" with its Medical Records Department; this is a very modern, useful, and time-saving system that has been enthusiastically received.
For more information contact: James R. Marrone, MD, MPH&TM @ marrone@humc.edu or Stacey Wiles, MD sdwiles@earthlink.net
Papua New Guinea
Tropical Medicine Rotation
Pediatric AIDS Corp - A program throug Baylor University. In 1999, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation developed alleviate the HIV/AIDS crisis among women and children in sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by the pandemic.
To arrange interviews with Dr. Mark Kline, please contact Lori Williams at Baylor
College of Medicine. She can be reached at:
Cell: 713-775-6912
Office: 713-798-4712
loriw@bcm.tmc.edu
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