The School of Medicine of the Universidad de Navarra has announced its incorporation to Global Health Learning Opportunities (GHLO), the first global alliance of Medical Schools. This network, directly promoted by the American Association of Medical Colleges, joins more than 40 world top universities from all continents. GHLO aims to cover the entire world by giving medical students of those centers the best international clinical exchanges there are to offer, among other resources.

Being part of such a network of medical institutions carries with it not only the duty to offer world-class electives to the other member institutions, but also to prepare in an exquisite way each one of the students who claim these outgoing electives. Thanks to the software that is made available to all institutions part of this global learning opportunity, the School of Medicine of the Universidad de Navarra can now reach and be contacted by institutions from 20 different nationalities.

Besides, this new international platform will help members to strengthen ties between them to some other kind of collaborations such as Faculty exchange, co-organization of courses and research. Product of the intense internationalization plan that is now taking place at this School of Medicine, the GHLO membership is, along with all the new exchange agreements that this School managed to obtain, another step further in the mission of the University to share with the world its values and working methodology.

Internationalization plan

Along with this initiative, and according to the internationalization plan 2013-2016, the School of Medicine also organized an admission's exam in New York and prepared and advised those students willing to make their specialty in foreign countries.

Finally, GHLO launched an event to receive the recently admitted Schools of Medicine. Secundino Fernández, Vice-Dean of the School, and José María Gutiérrez de Cabiedes, Director of Development of the School, represented our School in this welcoming day that took place the past November in Philadelphia, exchanging their opinions and thoughts regarding subject as varied as new simulation techniques or foreign employment markets