International Rotation Opportunities

Mercy Family Medicine has a longstanding history of faculty and residents using their skills for the service of others in the global community. The program feels that there are valuable learning opportunities in both short-term medical missions and longer international rotations. Residents may choose to do this in two settings: First, as part of a medical mission's team that spends one week of intense service in either El Salvador in November each year or in Peru in April of each year. Both of these trips are led by faculty as part of a larger multi-specialty team affiliated with an established medical mission organization. Secondly, residents may choose to spend a maximum of one month away on an international rotation approved by the program director. Recent residents have gone to Bolivia, Botswana, Uganda, Haiti, and other locations. We are pleased to now have an adjunct clinical faculty member and graduate of the program, Dr. Theron Hutton, MD, who is serving in Mbarara, Uganda. Dr. Hutton will be able to host residents for rotation starting in September 2009. the rotation experience in Uganda has potential to be a unique immersion into the culture and community medicine approach for those interested in long-term medical mission work.