Office of Global Health
National Global Health Electives
The Office of Global Health (OGH) assists students in finding and securing global health related elective
placements through Accredited Canadian Medical Schools. In addition to the national electives catalogue
through Schulich’s OGH, the Canadian Federation of Medical Students has a Global Experiences Database that
assists students in finding global health related experiences. Please note, national global health clinical electives
are only available for Schulich year 4 students.
Here is a current list of national global health clinical electives by medical school:
Medical
School
Northern
Ontario
School of
Medicine
University
of Toronto
University
of Alberta
McMaster
University
Queens
University
Elective Name
Contact
Rural electives in various disciplines in various rural
sites – see online catalogue for details
www.nosm.ca/electives
See Catalogue at http://medsis.utoronto.ca/electives/
Apply at https://admin.med.utoronto.ca/utme/
See
website for
details and
deadlines
Refugee Health Crossroads Clinic
Women’s College Hospital
Planned Parenthood Toronto – community health clinic
providing services to refugee youth
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands – serving women
from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and South Asia
Francophone Community Health Centre – providing
services in French to a largely immigrant population
Inner City Health Program - populations include
homelessness, chronic mental illness, addictions, and
HIV/AIDS
Health of the Homeless
AIDS and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus aetiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and management of
HIV infection and AIDS and associated opportunistic
infections.
Sherbourne Health Centre – serves
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People, Homeless and
Newcomers to Canada
See Catalogue
https://www.med.ualberta.ca/programs/visiting/under
graduate
Designing for Health: A Collaborative Project with the
Health Humanities and the Community
donna.feeney@wchospital.ca
Traditional Healing Practices, the Health Belief Model
and way for the provision for Aboriginal Health and
Wellness
Family Medicine - Yukon
Northern Medicine – Inuvik
Rural Family Medicine in Alberta
See Catalogue
http://macmdelectives.ca/utme/visiting/index.cfm
See Catalogue
http://meds.queensu.ca/education/undergraduate/visit
ing_students/elective_opportunities
Weeneebayko General Hospital (Moose Factory,
visitingelectives@ualberta.ca
updated April 20 2014
Additional
Details
See
website for
details
akapoor@ppt.on.ca
nalya@whiwh.com
nicholas.nfchong@gmail.com
curtis.handford@utoronto.ca
Must be
bilingual
Space
extremely
limited
seganl@smh.ca
fongi@smh.toronto.on.ca
QNguyen@sherbourne.on.ca
pbrett@ualberta.ca
visitingelectives@ualberta.ca
visitingelectives@ualberta.ca
visitingelectives@ualberta.ca
medelect@queensu.ca
Only
available
in the
summer
for 2
weeks
Office of Global Health
Ontario)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine
University
of Ottawa
Dalhousie
University
See Catalogue
http://www.med.uottawa.ca/electives/eng/visiting_me
dical_students.html
Apply at
http://www.medicine.dal.ca/departments/coreunits/undergraduate/visiting-studentelectives/studying-in-canada.html
See Catalogue
http://www.med.dal.ca/medix_public/UME_electives/p
rogram_list.cfm
Public Health
McGill
University
University
of
Manitoba
University
of
Saskatche
wan
University
of Calgary
Apply at
http://www.mcgill.ca/ugme-electives/visiting-students
See Catalogue
http://www.mcgill.ca/ugme-electives/elective-courses
Acupuncture
Parasitology
medelect@queensu.ca
natalie.macdonald@dfm.queensu.ca
elective@uottawa.ca
electives@dal.ca
electives@dal.ca
drhandesk@hotmail.com
timothy.g.geary@mcgill.ca
Social Pediatrics – exposure to special health problems
encountered by socially disadvantaged infants, children,
and youth.
Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Social Studies of Medicine – Students may explore such
questions as new approaches to health and healing;
healing in cross-cultural perspectives etc., Visit
http://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/ for more details.
Apply at and see catalogue at:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/education/und
ergraduate/electives.html
Aboriginal Health
Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Occupational Health
Rural Family Medicine
Northern Medical Unit - engage with the people of
communities which are mostly indigenous to North
America. Medical students experience will be broadened
by learning about the historical, cultural, and
socioeconomic context of life in northern and rural
Canada.
Apply at
http://www.medicine.usask.ca/education/medical/und
ergrad/current-students/electives/index.php
Jaemarie.ferdinand@muhc.mcgill.ca
Apply at
http://www.ucalgary.ca/mdprogram/visitingelectives
See Catalogue
http://www.ucalgary.ca/mdprogram/files/mdprogram
/Medical%20Electives%20Catalogue%2020142015%20Visting%20editionFeb%2010,%202014.pdf
Urban Public Health in Calgary - orientation may include
going on environmental inspections, participating in
immunization, well baby, STI, family planning and TB
clinics, and the Elbow River Healing Lodge, for urban
aboriginal clients.
visiting@ucalgary.ca
updated April 20 2014
See
website for
exclusion
periods
laurence.kirmayer@mcgill.ca
alberto.cambrosio@mcgill.ca
electivesUGME@med.umanitoba.ca
electivesUGME@med.umanitoba.ca
electivesUGME@med.umanitoba.ca
electivesUGME@med.umanitoba.ca
Cathy.Higham@med.umantoba.ca
electivesUGME@med.umanitoba.ca
janine.corbett@saskatoonhealthregi
on.ca
visiting@ucalgary.ca
No
electives
from JanApril
Office of Global Health
University
of British
Columbia
Rural Public Health
Aboriginal Public Health (Edmonton) - an introduction
to understanding the health status of Alberta First
Nations, the health determinants impacting First Nations
health and the organization of health care delivery for
Alberta First Nations.
Siksika First Nations – 100 km East of Calgary
Rural and Regional Family Medicine
Apply and see catalogue at
http://mdprogram.med.ubc.ca/visiting-studentelective-program/
visiting@ucalgary.ca
Innercity Family Practice in Vancouver (FP- InnerCityVCHA)
Rural Aboriginal Family Practice at Fraser Health
Authority (FP-Rural Abor-FHA)
Prison Family Practice (FP-PrisonMed-FHA)
Rural Northshore Family Practice in Gibsons (FP-Rural
General North Shore-VCHA)
Gibsons Community Health Unit Public Health and
Preventive Medicine (PHPM-CommMed-Gibsons-GCHU)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Fraser Health
Authority in Surrey (PHPM-CommMed-Surrey-FHA)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Vancouver
(PHPM-CommMed-Vancouver-VCHA)
Environmental Health at BC Centre for Disease Control
(PHPM-Environ Health-Vancouver-BCCDC)
Epidemiology at BC Centre for Disease Control (PHPMEpi-Vancouver-BCCDC)
HIV at St. Paul’s Hospital (PHPM-HIV-Vancouver-SPH)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine North Vancouver
(Courtney) (PHPM-MHO-COURTNEY-OTHER)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine Nanaimo (PHPMNanaimo-PH)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine Victoria (PHPM:
Victoria)
Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Salmon Arm
(PHPM-PHPM-Salmon Arm-IHA)
Rural Psychiatry in Squamish and Whistler (PS-Rural
Psychiatry - Squamish and Whistler)
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
visiting@ucalgary.ca
visiting@ucalgary.ca
visiting@ucalgary.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
elective@exchange.ubc.ca
For more information contact the office of global health at – globalhealth@schulich.uwo.ca
updated April 20 2014