Dr. Munavvar Izhar is a pioneer of medical Clinical Rotations in USA catering to the needs of Caribbean medical school students and Foreign Medical graduates from India, Pakistan, Far East, middle Eastern & European countries. In the current environment there are travel restrictions because of the post-Covid era, backlog in getting visitor visas to do the clinical rotations in the United States. Munawar Izhar has the devised a way to do clinical rotations mimicking hands-on clinical rotations in the USA. These rotations typically involve zoom sessions of rounding with the attending physician in the hospital and in the clinics. Students can interact with the patients, review the labs and radiology namely X Rays, CT scans etc. form an assessment and plan and present the patient to the attending physician’s whereupon final plan for execution is discussed and drafted.
The second type of clinical rotations are the clinical research rotations which are again done online with mentors from prestigious university programs like university of Chicago, Northwestern University, Stanford university etc. The students connect with the mentors on zoom for a half an hour to an hour a day and generate clinical questions, pull out articles for review, analyze the data, put it in the abstract form and under the guidance of their mentors send it for paper presentations, abstracts or publications in United States conferences, meetings, and journals for publication. On an average Dr. Munavvar Izhar mentions that their students have 1 to 4 publications during the one-month rotation.
The biggest advantage in these telehealth rotations is the savings in terms of cost of living, food, transportation, and the airfare back-and-forth to the USA which accounts to a significant amount of money for an American student. And in the end of the rotation students get excellent letters of recommendations which are almost held on par to the rotations being done in person.
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