End Date: Aug 15, 2012 09:58 PM

Volunteer Activity Description:
Volunteers on Medical and Dental Brigades work closely together with licensed medical and dental professionals to provide quality health initiatives to a community that otherwise has limited access to health care. Volunteers spend three days in a community in order to optimize the amount of time patients are able to spend with the physicians and dentists. Each patient receives a physician consultation, public health talk, and prescribed medicines as well as have access to PAP smears, prostate exams and restorative dental care as necessary. Children, in addition, receive teeth cleaning, a fluoride treatment, and vitamins necessary for proper growth and development. Volunteers have the opportunity to take patient vitals, obtain patient history and current symptoms, shadow and assist licensed physicians and dentists, participate in preventative education, and fill prescriptions under a licensed pharmacist. Volunteers will become familiar with the prevalent health issues in their community and learn about how to prevent and treat those illnesses. These brigades provide each volunteer with the opportunity to make a tangible impact on a specific community while gaining real life experience in the field of international medicine and dentistry.

Affiliated Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades
Group: Medical Brigades at CUNY - Macaulay Honors College

Supporter's Comments

Deborah Beth Medows donated $491
saying: This transaction which is mandatory for attendance is for the use of Ariella Michal Medows on her Global Brigade to Panama in August 2012, and will be reimbursed by Macaulay.
Jul 30, 2012 09:40 PM

 

Deborah Beth Medows donated $100
saying: This payment of $100 is for the use of Ariella Michal Medows on her brigade to Panama in August 2012. These funds will be reimbursed by Macaulay.
Jul 16, 2012 09:28 PM

 

Deborah Beth Medows donated $150
saying: This donation of $150 is for the purpose of financing the medications that Michal Medows was mandated to finance for this trip, and Macaulay has agreed to reimburse these funds.
Jul 15, 2012 09:59 AM

 

Deborah B Medows donated $820
saying: This money is for Ariella Michal Medows on her brigade to Panama with Macaulay Honors College of CUNY in August 2012. It is earmarked for the mandatory deposit (ie. airfare, compound, etc.) Macaulay Honors College has agreed to reimburse the outpai
Jul 09, 2012 10:20 PM