International medicine comes with challenges all its own. We understand those challenges and provide our residents with practical, hands-on training they can use in the field. International environments are often even more dependent on a single family physician to see to all their health care needs than rural areas in this country. Skills ranging from OB to ER come into play on a daily basis. That's why we give residents interested in international medicine the opportunity to spend time treating refugees in our International Health Clinic and on elective rotations abroad. There they encounter and treat many unique pathology cases at various stages of the disease process.