Case competitions to engage students in global health

Furthermore, they emphasise self-driven learning, rigorous time constraints, and facilitation and rigorous assessment by content experts, which emphasises clarity of reasoning through gruelling inquiry.4 Case-based approaches cultivate analytical thinking, increase understanding of core principles, and enhance communication skills and self-motivation.5 To dis entangle complex problems, students must deliberate, synthesise findings, prioritise issues, recognise constraints and viewpoints, negotiate conflicting perspectives, apply evidence-based, insightful decision making, and confidently defend their stance.4 Focused reflection is important to the learning experience.6 Relevant studies of this topic show equivalent content knowledge, better problem solving, improved integration of concepts, and self-directed studying abilities in students who are enrolled in problem-oriented education compared with those in conventional curricula.7-9 Additionally, application of defined parameters, precise criteria for assessment, and provision of faculty and expert guidance reduces the cognitive overload that students might encounter when first exposed to problem-solving and complex global-health issues.10 The 21st-century world compels all students to integrate a global consciousness into their education because global health has implications for political, economic, sociobehavioural, and cultural milieus.11,12 Case competitions emphasise the spectrum of considerations (eg, economics, anthropology, ethics, politics, and law) that are needed to address global-health issues and allow cross-pollination of professional and interpersonal skills and viewpoints.