The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries

First Do No Harm?

Anya Ahmed, James Ackers-Johnson, Helen Louise Ackers

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319483634
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines the current state of elective placements of medical undergraduate students in developing countries and their impact on health care education at home.Drawing from a recent case study of volunteer deployment in Uganda, the authors provide anin-depth evaluation of the impacts on the students themselves and the learning outcomes associated with placements in low resource settings, as well as the impacts that these forms of student mobility have on the host settings. In addition toreviewing the existing literature on elective placements, the authors outline a potential model for the future development of ethical elective placements. As the book concurs with an increasing international demand for elective placements, it will be of immediate interest to universities, intermediary organizations, students as consumers, and hosting organisations in low-resource settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Frontmatter
• 1. Introduction: Why Ethical Educational Placements?
• 2. The Ethical Educational Placement Project
• 3. Student Learning on Ethical Educational Placements
• 4. Ethical Placements? Under What Conditions Can Educational Placements Support Sustainable Development?
• 5. Managing Reciprocity: No Harm Approaches to International Educational Placements
• Backmatter