Education
Residency Training

INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE SPECIAL ELECTIVE : HONDURAS
This 2-week or 4-week elective in Honduras provides a quality international health experience for family practice residents. Experience includes practicing medicine in a resource poor setting, public health training, cross cultural exposure and language immersion. The goals of the program are to enhance residents’ understanding of the needs of recent immigrant to the US from Latin America, improve their Spanish and strengthen clinical skills. Residents begin their experience by working hand-in-hand with local Honduran physicians on a week-long medical brigade providing care to young children and the elderly in remote communities. Residents then have the option of attending a language-immersion training program where they will live with Honduran families, attend language school and work in a public hospital. Those residents feeling comfortable with the Spanish skills can choose to work in a variety of clinical settings: with a private physician; in a public-teaching hospital; in a private hospital that does community outreach or a combination of all three.

CARE FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS ELECTIVE (APPROVED, NOT YET LISTED)
This elective emphasizes high quality care for underserved populations, health disparities, cultural competence and medical Spanish while gaining clinical experience in a full-spectrum Family Medicine practice in a community health center setting. Selected research topics related to underserved populations, health disparities and/or Hispanic/Latino health issues are presented on the last Thursday of the course.

COMMUNITY MEDICINE: PEOPLE’S COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER DAY
First-year residents spend one day during their month-long Community Medicine rotation at People’s Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center affiliated with Health Net with an 80% to 90% Spanish-speaking patient population. Emphasis placed on high quality of care for underserved populations, health disparities, cultural competence and medical Spanish.

BASIC MEDICAL SPANISH SERIES
Based on interest expressed by residents, a quarterly medical Spanish series providing Spanish grammar and basic medical Spanish has been started at the Indiana University Family Medicine Residency.