Global Health Supper Club: An Innovative Training Approach for Global Health Clinical Skills and Ethics

Saturday, April 26, 2025

10:00am – 11:30am HST

Location: Convention Center: 307

CE: CME: 1.5
Ethics CME: 1.5

Leader(s)

Kristina Tebo, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States

Co-Leader(s)

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Guenet Degaffe, MD

Associate Professor
UT Health
Houston, Texas, United States
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William Chong, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States
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Whitney Rome, MD MPH

Staff Physician
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, United States
Wan-Hsuan Sherly Chen, DO (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States
Emily Leong, MD (she/her/hers)

Resident Physician
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States

Disclosure(s):

Kristina Tebo, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Guenet Degaffe, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

William Chong, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Whitney A. Rome, MD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Wan-Hsuan Sherly Chen, DO: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Emily T. Leong, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop Description: Global health is a field that is rapidly gathering the interest of pediatricians. Simulations bring the global health experience to those who haven’t had the opportunity to practice in countries under the constraints of limited resources. Our Global Health Supper Club fosters a collaborative learning environment with monthly dinner meetings where the participants are taught interactive clinical and procedural skills and apply them to a mock global health scenario. Attendees are tasked with the challenge of practicing medicine without the aid of nursing and diagnosing a condition without traditional labs and imaging. Our clinical care workshop demonstrates a sample of our curriculum and teaches the attendees about the various skillsets of the global health physician.

Similar to our Global Health Supper Club, workshop participants will learn how to construct and adapt medical devices used in low-resource clinical settings. This includes building a bubble CPAP device, creating homemade burn dressings and IO devices, inserting NG tubes and catheters, and mixing malnutrition formulas. Next, participants will apply those skills learned through a series of global health simulation cases. They will learn to properly triage, assess, diagnose, and treat their simulated patient with the same constraints as a resource-limited setting. The workshop concludes with a reflection on the sessions, and how these challenges pertain to ethical and cultural considerations in a real-life scenario.

Learning Objectives:

Explain and demonstrate medical skills which can be used impactfully in resource limited settings, including creatively constructing instruments adapted to these settings
Practice managing common clinical scenarios in resource-limited settings through simulated cases using the newly acquired medical skills and instruments.
Reflect on the principles of medical ethics, humanism, and professionalism encountered in global health settings