Questions/Answers needed for Yale/J&J website to illuminate the role of resident
scholars at each site; to be completed by jointly by US and site mentors for each site.
Please feel free to add as much detail and take as much space as you’d like.
Site: JFK Medical Center-Monrovia Liberia
What is the Resident’s role in providing medical care:
 educator
 observer
 care provider
 other: _________________
The Resident’s day to day duties will be as a/an:
 Observer
 Provider with direct supervision
 Provider with supervision available
 Other: _______________________________
Do duties change over the course of the rotation? No
Expectations @ performing procedures:
 Observer
 Provider with direct supervision
 Provider with supervision available
 Other: _______________________________
Please attach a template of the expected schedule, and comment on the following:
Taking Call: Once weekly during weekdays
Weekend Hours: Saturday 4 hours, Sunday off
Weekday Hours: 8am-6pm daily
Free Time/Vacation Days: Sundays off, no vacation time is integrated into rotation
Flexibility of scheduling: Some
Impact of time of year/season on rotation: Wet/Dry seasons impact malaria burden and
incidence of water born pathogens.
Expectations for sociocultural etiquette: Will be advised prior to departure.
Safety issues: Night time travel. Political context of post-conflict environment. Travel
outside of Monrovia.
Participation in existing research: Heavily emphasized.
List expected rotation sites/Affiliated Institutions: Univ of Chicago, Brown University,
Mt Sinai School of Medicine. All rotators will be working at JFK Medical Center.
Potential for rotation at Redemption Hospital (Public Facility on outskirts of Monrovia)
exist as well.
List optional rotation sites
Opportunities for Teaching
 presenting at Grand Rounds Once Monthly
 offering formal lectures Weekly
 bedside teaching to colleagues,etc.--Daily
 teaching of med students Daily
other: ___________________
Opportunities for formal Learning
Grand Rounds weekly
 Attending rounds twice weekly
 seminars (if yes, how frequently? _____)
 attending lectures at other institutions
 other: ______________________
How many of these opportunities is a resident expected to attend? As desired
Other comments: Rotation is intended for residents possibly interested in careers in
global health are requires some prior knowledge or practice in low resource
environments. Rotators will have significant direct patient care responsibility and will be
caring for advanced and complicated cases with limited resources. Priority is given to
senior level residents and those with prior work experience in tropical settings.
Link added to website January 2009.