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Welcome to IHTC
The International Health Training Center of USFQ is designed to give participants a unique opportunity to improve language, intercultural and clinical skills. IHTC facilitates participation in clinical and community health projects in a diverse network of hospitals and institutions in rural and urban areas throughout all regions of Ecuador: the Amazon, Sierra, Coast and Galapagos Islands.
Our Mission
The International Health Training Center operates in harmony with the mission of USFQ’s College of Health Science Department, whose founding principles lay in achieving academic excellence through integrating the humanities and liberal arts with health science, and a vision of Medicine as a social responsibility and service. At IHTC we believe quality health education embodies both theory and practice in a way that fosters intercultural understanding and awareness of global health issues. By facilitating the collaboration between Ecuadorian health practitioners and educators, and international medical professionals and students, IHTC envisions a future of socially responsible health practice worldwide.
College of Health Sciences, USFQ
IHTC is managed by the College of Health Sciences (COSCA), a well-established department at la Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador’s leading non-profit, private university. With over 12 years of experience, the College of Health Sciences hosts both undergraduate and graduate programs, including Master programs in Public Health, Security, Health and Environment and Clinical-Surgery Specialties. COSCA professors are distinguished in their fields, with leading research in areas such as tropical medicine, community health, mental health, and many others. Successful, ongoing projects include ECODESS which focuses on environmental change and infectious disease. COSCA has partnerships with educational institutions worldwide, including universities in the United States, Canada, France and Holland. Through the College of Health Sciences, IHTC has received over 120 international students from 16 universities from the United States, Germany, England, Spain and Holland, who have successfully completed rotations, research and classes at IHTC.
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Director
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Dr. Mauricio Espinel is the director and founder of the International Health Training Center. He is both a medical doctor and professor at la Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He specializes in tropical medicine and infectious disease, having earned his PhD at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2003. He has extensive experience working in the Northwest Coastal Region of Ecuador, both as director of the National Control Program of Onchocerciasis (in northern Esmeraldas) between 1993 and 1995 and as the medical director of the seventh health region (in Canton Eloy Alfaro) between 1996 and 1997. He continues with work in tropical medicine as co-investigator for the program, ECODESS, which focuses on environmental change and infectious disease. He also dedicates his time to international health education, as a professor in IHTC’s Summer course, and as the coordinator of customized rotations and electives. Dr. Espinel has extensive experience working with international students and professionals and greatly enjoys this aspect of his work.
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