Table 4 Comparing freely available online curricula for short-term global health ethics
From: An ethics curriculum for short-term global health trainees
Website | Broad conceptual framework | Primarily case-based | Includes specific cases or scenarios | Certificate available for completion | Part of global health curriculum | Some modules in Spanish | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) Teaching Modules | X | X | X | · Self-navigation through PowerPoint | |||
http://globalhealtheducation.org/modules/SitePages/Home.aspx | · Ethics integrated within "Working and Visiting in Low Resource Countries" | ||||||
Unite for Sight Volunteer Ethics and Online Professionalism Course | X | X (cost) | X | · Self-navigation through text based modules | |||
· Focuses on professional behavior abroad | |||||||
Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, “Ethical Challenges in Short-term Global Health Training” | · Self-navigation through cases | ||||||
X | X | X (free) | · Focuses on common scenarios | ||||
· Employs multiple choice questions and real-time feedback | |||||||
University of British Columbia, “Ethics of International Engagement and Service-Learning Project” | · Users navigate through various menus | ||||||
X | X | · Includes cases, pedagogy, and philosophical analysis | |||||
· Employs open-ended question and answers |