AAFP Global Health Summit

Preparing for “GLOCAL” (addressing global health issues while considering local contexts and needs) or an overseas experience? Seeking to better understand transnational health issues and social determinants of health?

Then FMX is your time to explore global health.

Network with global health advocates as you:

• Assess your strengths and needs to successfully participate in global health partnerships
• Identify ethical and culturally sensitive ways to work with global partners toward equity
• Learn to manage communicable and noncommunicable diseases in resource-constrained settings
• Develop leadership skills as a mentor and teacher in global health endeavors
• Support family medicine faculty and training programs around the world
• Explore opportunities to “think globally” in local settings

Global Health Schedule

Global Health Summit Topics

Breakout Session Topics

• Bridging Gaps for Equity and Sustainability: Community-Based Participatory Research in Glocal Health Programs
• Bringing Global Health into the Medical School Curriculum Through the Back Door: Training the Next Generation of Global Health Family Physicians Through a Medical Spanish/Latino Health Longitudinal Elective
• Care of Complex Refugees
• Charting a New Path: Transitioning Medical Project Leadership
• Congressional Advocacy for Global Health
• Considerations When Creating Global Health Experiences UME vs GME Learners, How Different is LCME vs ACGME With Requirements
• Considering Fatalism in Health Care Promotion Initiatives
• Expanding the Capacity for Long-term Local Community Benefit Through Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement in the Context of a Short-term Experience in Global Health-local Partnership
• Family Medicine Specialty Around the Globe: An Overview by Different Countries
• Healing Across Divides
• Launching Your International Healthcare Career
• Malaria: Disease Overview and Evidence Update
• Parasitology 101: Gastrointestinal Parasites
• POCUS Use in Global Health – Shedding a Light in the Dark
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound – An Important Diagnostic Tool for Resource-limited Settings
• Swiftwater Medicine
• Toolkit for Dissemination of Evidence-Based Information in a Global Health Setting on a Budget
• Thirty Years: Lessons Learned from the ENLACE Honduras Experience
• Transforming the Trauma of War
• Utilizing 3D Printing Technology to Enhance Healthcare in Resource-limited Environments
• Your Partner Should Be Your Role Model: How an Indigenous-led Guatemalan Nonprofit Prioritized Anti-colonial Values While Creating a Lasting Partnership with a U.S. Academic Medical Center

Topics are subject to change.

CME Credit Statement

The AAFP has reviewed Global Health Summit and deemed it acceptable for up to 9.25 Live AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 9/22/2024 to 9/23/2024. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The AAFP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this Live activity for a maximum of 9.25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.