About Me
Derek Lubetkin, MD
Coastal Maine Global Health Fellow 2023-2024
I'm an emergency medicine physician interested in EM education and development in rural settings and LMICs. I completed my emergency medicine training at the Brown University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. During my time at Brown EM I was a member of the EM Global Health Track and the Brown Residency International/Global Health Training Pathway (BRIGHT).
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I'm a registered facilitator for the WHO Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course.
About the Coastal Maine Global Health Fellowship (CMGHF)
The Coastal Maine Global Health Fellowship is an innovative training program for emergency medicine physicians that couples the experience of rural emergency medicine in mid-coast Maine with the needs of global emergency care along the Thailand-Burma border.
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The goal of the collaboration between the CMGHF and the Mae Tao Clinic is to have a bidirectional exchange of knowledge in order to develop an evidenced based approach to Emergency Medicine at the clinic.
About the Mae Tao Clinic
Mae Tao Clinic provided 98,762 consultations; of them, 7,314 were admitted for the further diagnoses and treatment. Among the total patients, 61% were women and 25% were children under 5 years old. In addition, 61% of clients are from the Thai side (2018 data)
Mae Tao Clinic Mission Statement
MTC is a community-based organisation (CBO) that provides and advocates for an equitable and essential health system, education and protection for vulnerable and displaced people living in the Thai-Burma border area and Eastern Burma. MTC addresses the needs and human rights of these people through comprehensive programs and a collaborative approach with local, national, international and government bodies.
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The MTC team is embarking on a three-year project to develop a comprehensive Emergency Care Unit (ECU) that began in July 2023.