1. Tropical Disease Institute website at OUCOM
   1. Topics on International Health
      http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/tdi/Topics_International_Health/
       
2. World Health Organization (WHO) list of topics if you know what your are looking for http://www.who.int/topics/en/
    
3. http:\\globalhealthlearning.org
   The Global Health Learning Center provides Internet-based courses that:
   • Provide useful and timely continuing education for health professionals
     • Suggested - Diarrheal Disease, HIV Basics, Malaria, Pneumonia, TB Basics
     • LOTS on Women’s Health
   • Offer state-of-the-art technical content on key public health topics
   • Serve as a practical resource for increasing public health knowledge
      
4. Global Health Education Consortium
   Recommended modules listed below
   http://globalhealthedu.org/Modules/Pages/default.aspx
   1. Planning your global health elective
   2. Globalization and its impact on health
   3. Global Health and Development: The Basics
   4. Global Child Health, Part I
   5. HIV Basics for Health Professionals
   6. Intestinal Protozoa of Relevance: Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Cyclospora
   7. Tuberculosis
   8. Surgery and Global Health (for specific surgical experiences)
   9. Introduction to comparative health care systems (for interest in this topic)
       
5. Supercourse
   1. www.pitt.edu/~super1/ 
   2. this one is really better if you have A LOT of interest and A LOT of time – I wouldn’t recommend this for this kind of preparation
       
6. AMSA International Health information - http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/
    
7. AOA International Website -
   http://www.osteopathic.org/index.cfm?PageID=lcl_interntnl
    
8. Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) - http://www.studentdo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=89

Handbooks for use during your experience – these are more clinical or health care oriented versus research oriented:

1. Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (personal favorite of many students here) - by Michael Eddleston, Robert Davidson, Robert Wilkinson & Stephen Pierini
    
2. The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual by Elaine C. Jong
    
3. Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (available free online) - by David Werner, Carol Thuman & Jane Maxwell

For further reading if you are interested in Global Health:

1. Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty, And Global Service by Edward O'Neil Jr. (highly recommended by faculty who have traveled with OUCOM)
    
2. A Practical Guide to Global Health Service by Edward O'Neil Jr.
   Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer - by Tracy Kidder

Articles regarding International Rotations:

1. “A Caution Against Medical Tourism”
   http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2006/12/oped1-0612.html
    
2. “International Electives: Maximizing the Opportunity to Learn and Contribute” www.medscape.com/viewarticle/503450_print
    
3. “Knowing When to Say “no” on the Student Elective” Nicholas Banatvala and Len Doyal. BMJ. Vol 316
    
4. “The Educational Value of International Electives”
   http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2006/12/medu1-0612.html
    
5. “Understanding Global Health Issues: are International Medical Electives the Answer?” Richard Edwards, Jack Piachaud, Mike Rowson and Jaime Miranda
    
6. “Rethinking Your Elective” J Jaime Miranda and Sarah Finer
    
7. “Educational Effects of International Health Electives on U.S. and Canadian Medical Students and Residents: A Literature Review” Matthew J Thompson MBChB, MPH, Mark Huntington MD, PhD, D. Dan Hunt MD, Linda Pinsky MD, and Jonathan J. Brodie MD.

Further reading on how to make this an effective elective time:

• Alma Mata. Available at http://www.almamata.net.
  This is a free resource and network of about 500 health professionals and students interested in global health careers, training, and research. It contains a database of humanitarian organizations, articles, and interviews with doctors and students who have worked overseas.