Our Vision + Mission
Our vision is to improve the standard of medical care and health outcomes in Low-to-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) by improving the quality of medical education and healthcare infrastructure by leveraging human resources and knowledge.
Our mission is to address the global disparity in medical education by providing equal access to high quality medical education for healthcare providers in LMICs via a dynamic, adaptive, interactive and skill-building digital platform.
About Us
We are a diverse collective of healthcare providers, social justice advocates and business professionals who are working to promote equal access to medical education for healthcare providers in LMICs. Through collaboration and partnerships we have created a team of professionals and advocates from numerous academic institutions and countries. Partnerships are central to our efforts. We partner closely with healthcare providers and medical institutions in the countries that we serve in order to create implementation strategies that are realistic and sustainable. We also proudly represent diasporic participation which we accomplish by building a diverse team of professionals many of whom share personal ties to the communities that we serve.
Our first initiative was an adaptive International Cardiology Curriculum Accessible by Remote Distance Learning (ICARDs) which was launched at one teaching hospital in Haiti in 2019. The curriculum proved impactful with trainees in Haiti demonstrating a meaningful improvement in pre and post-intervention assessments. Given the success of the ICARDs pilot, we are expanding to other teaching hospitals in Haiti and eventually to medical institutions in other LMICs. It is our goal to eventually include other medical education topics such as nephrology, neurology and rheumatology. We do not see the Global Medical Education Network as a replacement for in-person teaching or onsite global health endeavors but instead as a valuable and durable adjunct which is able to withstand travel restrictions, political instability, pandemics and financial hardship.