Program Reviews

First of all, I would like to thank GEI for creating a wonderful online course for international students and teachers to talk about "Global Health". Thereby, I feel that we do not need to do anything too big, just contributing a small amount of our ability can help people improve their health condion (or social issues) from simple things like "Raising people 's awareness " .
Through the course, I felt that I needed to put more effort into improving my English, my skills, my knowledge and my attitude towards the world. I have had great experiences with international friends, chatting happily even through the laptop screen. I am very happy to have the opportunity to work with wonderful friends like Sameen, Lydia and Minh on our project "Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Efforts in Vietnam" and " Dengue Fever" . Thank you, Ms. Army and Ms. Thuy for connecting Vietnamese and American students. Thanks again to GEI for creating this wonderful course.

I would like to send my heartfelt to GEI for giving me this valuable opportunity and my dear manager Amy and Thuy for always being so supportive and dedicated. You guys truly made us feel welcomed and cared for

Speaking of which, GHP is the first virtual course I would say an incredible course I ever had. Despite the different time zone, we work as a real team, mostly on the very first morning or very late at night but everyone has so much energy and always willing to get the mission. Totally fall in love with the course!

The program far exceeded my expectations for what could be learned about culture and healthcare over Zoom instead of live/in-person. I learned so much about the Vietnamese culture, healthcare, and global health issues that are prevalent in many areas of the world. I feel like after hearing the students speak from Vietnam as well as the students from DMU, global health is definitely gaining awareness and makes me hopeful for changes being made in the future. I can't wait to visit Vietnam and hopefully meet some of the people I was able to meet and work with during this past week!

Although the course lasted only a week, I have a very interesting experience. On the first day, I was quite worried about the language problem when I was unable to keep up with what everyone was talking about so I couldn't answer everyone's questions but just listen. But things got better the next day. Thanks to that I learned a lot of things that I never even knew about in Dr.Waleed's wonderful lecture. My teammates are also very friendly and kind. They always ask my opinion about the presentation and are willing to answer my questions when I have any problems. I also learned a lot about their professionalism during group working process. Despite the difference in time zones, we ran into no problems and successfully completed the presentation. Thanks GEI for creating the opportunity for everyone to meet and work together, especially Ms. Thuy and Ms. Amy who supported us throughout the course. Looking forward to seeing everybody in person one day.

Firstly I would love to offer warmest thanks to GEI, CTUMP and Des Moine University. This is my first time joining this kind of internship. This internship is really awesome that help me a lot in working with foreigners, improve my English skills. Besides, my teammate working very well and I think we had done a very good job. Really thank you to you guys Jiyoon Song, Peter Hollinger, Alejandra Castillo and An Nguyen. Hoping that we can keep in touch in the future. Finally, I would love to join more GEI internships in the future.

This virtual course gave me a wonderful oppotunity to get access to global health's issues then thinking of my responsibility and determining specific things that i have to learn to becone part of medical workforce, as well as brought me chance to contact with students from the USA.
Although i acctually got a bit dificulty when the American students sometimes speak so fast that made me miss understand but at all we had such a great time exchanging and sharing. It also reminded me of keeping practicing English to be more active in those kind of course in the future.
Thanks for coordinators' efforts to facilitate the best condition for us to experience the course. Thanks you from Ctump.

The Spring break Virtual Vietnam trip was an engaging and joyous experience. Throughout the week, we dove into both cultural and health care topics in Vietnam and met many new friends overseas. Our leaders, Thuy and Amy, were available at nearly all hours, encouraging, and positive. I couldn't wait for the next meeting to see and hear from them again. We finished the week with a group project that allowed us to work with Vietnamese students and it was a pleasure to learn with and through them. It was challenging to work between two opposite time zones but incredibly fulfilling to meet this new group of people. I hope to see my new friends and Vietnam in person very soon.

The GEI coordinators, preceptors and students were nothing but welcoming the entire experience. Though we were in a virtual space, I felt right at home with every orientation and interaction shared. My partner, Huan, was very invested in our project even though we both had rigorous course work outside of the internship. We successfully completed the project which was the beginning to my Master's thesis. I could not be more grateful for this experience and I hope to meet Huan in person one day! Thank you GEI!

I truly enjoyed my virtual experience with the GEI team in Vietnam during the Maternal and Neonatal Health research internship. Collaborating with a medical student in Vietnam was the best part of the experience! The GEI team was very approachable for guidance and enthusiastic about the projects. Despite the virtual setting, I was able to form close bonds with my partner and the group and learn about the culture and medicine in Vietnam. This internship is a wonderful opportunity that everyone should take advantage of.

Firstly i would love to offer warmest thanks to GEI, CTUMP and Des Moine University, especially Dr Bao and Haley, without them I just can not complete the presentation well. This internship is wildly fantastic as I can learn a lot from Haley, she is such a good partner. Unfortunately, this intermship not only occurs in my final examination but also the difference about time zone up to 13 hours make us have to burn the midnight oil to finish the project on time, it is such a sad thing that this come to and end, i would love to join more in the future as my knowledge grows