WEILL CORNELL - AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY JOINT GLOBAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

The curriculum has four components:
(1) Global Emergency Care: During the fellowship, the fellow will spend a total of 8 months at one of the Aga Khan University’s Emergency Department Site; international clinical sites are located in South Asia (Pakistan) and East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania). Through this fieldwork experience, fellows will gain direct exposure to the delivery of emergency care in resource-poor settings. Fellows will receive mentored training to develop skills for stakeholder engagement, demonstrating culturally competent healthcare, and establishing successful relationships with international colleagues, and have the opportunity to take language courses to improve their cross-cultural communication skills. We will hold biweekly didactic sessions and journal clubs with Weill Cornell and global EM faculty, guest lecturers and joint sessions with other fellows in EM will allow the fellow to acquire knowledge of major global health conditions and gain an understanding of various health delivery systems.

(2) Formal Training in Patient-Oriented Research: Fellows will have the opportunity to complete a Masters of Science (MSc) degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. This curriculum spans two years and includes both formal didactic and mentored training in patient-oriented research. Specifically, fellows will gain an understanding of research methodology, study design, and develop skills in data management and analysis.

(3) Global EM Research: Each fellow will be required to undertake a primary research project during fellowship under the guidance of a project mentor. Each project will include design, proposal writing, submission of research protocols to an Institutional Review Board (IRB), data collection, data analysis, presentation of one or more individual research abstracts at a national or international conference, and/or publication of one or more manuscripts in a peer-reviewed journal. In year 2 of the fellowship, fellows will complete a K-level NIH grant based upon data from their scholarly project.

(4) Practice of Academic Emergency Medicine: For 8 months each year, the fellow will work as a member of the clinical faculty of the WCM Department of Emergency Medicine. The fellow will participate in all academic activities in the Department of Emergency Medicine, including grand rounds presentations, conferences, and resident teaching.