Two medical students from Kenya are visiting the UW this quarter as part of the medical school’s newly established International Medical Students Exchange (IMSE).

James Mbuvi and Henry Njuguna, who are both in their last year of medical school at the University of Nairobi, were chosen for the program out of 30 applicants, based on their academic and clinical merit. The two students will be studying epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, and other topics at the UW School of Medicine for nine weeks before returning to Kenya.

The IMSE program, which is organized by the UW School of Medicine’s International Health Group (IHG) and funded by the Puget Sound Partners for Global Health (PSPGH), provides training opportunities for professionals from developing countries that host UW medical students studying abroad.

Those students take part in two other programs organized by the IHG and funded by the PSPGH: the International Health Opportunities Program, which gives UW students between their first and second years of medical school the chance to travel to Kenya and study public health and health-care delivery issues, and International Health Electives, in which fourth-year students pursue clinical rotations in developing countries.

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