Building clinical knowledge across borders

Medical education should be practical, collaborative and globally connected

At Pont Global Medicine, our programs support both training for frontline health workers where our clinics are located and immersive global health education for students and trainees in the United States. Education is not a byproduct of our work—it’s a central pillar.

We do this through

Empowering nurses and medical trainees in low-income countries

Our goal is to ensure that students and trainees in low-income settings can benefit from the same caliber of education as those in high-resource countries—without needing to leave their communities.

Training locally based nurses

In the countries where we work, our telemedicine visits double as teaching encounters. Every patient consultation is a shared visit between a Pont physician and a locally based nurse—a healthcare worker who sees patients every day, even when a doctor is not available. These shared visits are opportunities for:

Skill building

Nurses gain confidence and clinical skills to independently manage common conditions, improving continuity of care between physician visits.

Clinical mentorship

Pont physicians guide nurses through physical exams, diagnostic reasoning, and treatment decision-making in real time.

Capacity building

This model promotes long-term sustainability by strengthening the expertise of the local workforce.

Medical and nursing student education

In addition to frontline training, Pont is committed to supporting medical and nursing education through formal academic partnerships. We collaborate with local universities to provide virtual lectures to medical students and nurse trainees.

Medical education

We have delivered medical education sessions in Sierra Leone at both the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences and Njala University, engaging students in real-world clinical reasoning and discussion.

Virtual infrastructure

To further this work, we are currently installing audiovisual infrastructure at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences to enable live virtual lectures from physicians and educators around the world.

Academic exchange

These lectures are designed to supplement local curricula, expand access to global expertise, and promote equitable academic exchange.

Real-world tropical medicine training for U.S. learners

Pont partners with U.S.-based graduate medical education programs, medical schools and schools of public health to offer medical students and residents direct exposure to global health practice.

This immersive experience allows future clinicians to learn from real-world global health scenarios—without needing to travel—while developing cross-cultural competence and clinical insight.

Through participation in our telemedicine visits, U.S. trainees:

Observe and engage with real tropical disease cases across our three clinic sites
Join live patient consultations alongside local nurses and attending physicians
Work through case-based discussions grounded in the complexities of resource-limited care

Collaborative, Bidirectional learning

We don’t see education as one-directional. Whether it’s a nurse in Sierra Leone gaining diagnostic confidence or a U.S. medical student learning the presentation of malaria firsthand, our model creates shared learning experiences for all participants. These connections shape more informed, compassionate, and effective clinicians on both sides of the screen.

Your partnership can help transform health care

Explore student, educator, and institutional collaborations

Are you an academic institution looking to improve tropical medicine education for your students? Are you a physician ready to give back with lectures and teaching sessions?

Join us in building global partnerships that improve healthcare education.

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