Global healthcare volunteer's handbook : what you need to know before you go.

The need for global healthcare volunteers is critical. Yet many healthcare professionals and students find the path to volunteering their services to be confusing and fraught with frustration. This book, based on the author's experiences teaching and practicing medicine on all seven continents, prov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iserson, Kenneth V.
Language:English
Published: Tucson, AZ : Galen Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Volunteer workers in medical care > Training of > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Volunteers > Developing countries.
Volunteers > Training of.
Volunteers > Training of > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Medical care > International cooperation.
Medical care > International cooperation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
World health.
Humanitarian assistance.
Volunteers.
Global Health.
International Cooperation.
Genre:
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Physical Description:xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A. Volunteering :
  • Do you really want to be a global healthcare volunteer?
  • Global volunteer's traits
  • Resource-poor settings and disasters
  • Professional challenges ;
  • B. Preparing to travel :
  • Organizing your trip: a checklist
  • Packing
  • Travel and travel documents ;
  • C. Traveling abroad :
  • Money, customs rules, and pets
  • Food, housing, showers, and toilets
  • Culture shock and re-entry
  • Jet lag and travel fatigue ;
  • D. Health and safety :
  • Personal health
  • Vaccinations, malaria prophylaxis, and pre-existing medical conditions
  • Staying safe ;
  • E. Getting involved :
  • Volunteers and donations
  • Clinical and classroom preparation
  • Foreign language preparation
  • Working with interpreters
  • Phone and internet communication ;
  • F. Global healthcare organizations : an annotated list ;
  • G. Appendices :
  • WHO guidelines for drug donations
  • Healthcare and travel resources.