International Rotation Directory
Duke University Hospital Program
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Last updated: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Description
We offer several different opportunities aiming at: understanding different health care environments, learning and sharing diverse methods of healthcare delivery and education, demonstrating cultural humility, addressing local social determinants of health, applying principles of community engagement and developing competencies in global health settings.
Locations of rotations
Argentina
Lebanon
Sri Lanka
Tanzania, United Republic of
Ecuador
Austria
Address
Box 3886
Durham, NC 27710
Country
US
Phone
(919) 684-6721
Fax
(919)668-1785
Program director
Sara Martin MD
Field experience
Argentina: Residents rotate as members of a FM residency program in the city of Buenos Aires, and the more rural city of Tucuman, Argentina. The residency program is nested within OSPECON, the Construction Workers Union. Residents apply principles of community engagement, and address healthcare, community health prevention and social determinants of health. _____________________________________ Ecuador: In partnership with Cachamsi, Residents live with a family in Cacha, Ecuador and attend Spanish instruction classes for half a day and rotate through different healthcare venues during the other half of the day. _____________________________________ Lebanon: Residents work in the Department of Family Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. They attend hospital rounds, emergency room, work in refugee camps, and the Family Medicine Center. _______________________________________ Tanzania: These rotations were designed together with the Duke Global Health Institute, and they involve mostly infant and child health. ______________________________________ Austria: One third year resident is selected to attend and teach for one week at the Duke Family Medicine Seminar offered every year at the Open Medical Institute in Salzburg. Fellows attending the seminar are physicians practicing in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the former Soviet Union and other countries in transition. Residents can spend a month in Vienna, studying the European health system.
Didactics
Residents are recommended to spend a rotation away from Duke Medical Center during their 2nd and 3rd years. These are some of the options for electives. Our program proposes learning from and contributing to a different healthcare environment and culture, addressing health care disparities, community engagement and social determinants of health through becoming an active member of the site we partner with.
Cost to individual residents
Additional cost information
Cost depends on site and travel cost to the location.
Number of residents who have participated in the last two years
4 - 6
Does the program accept medical students for trips?
No
Does the program accept residents from outside the program for trips?
No
Approximate time of year of trips
Varies
Duration of trips
1 - 3 months