UMASS Medical & Dental Brigade Panama May 2014


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Volunteer Activity Description

Start Date: May 18, 2014 12:00 AM
End Date: May 24, 2014 12:00 AM

Medical Brigade volunteers will set up temporary clinics in pre-identified communities in Eastern Panama to provide healthcare where access is limited. Each community receives a brigade every 3-4 months. Students on the brigade are given the opportunity to shadow licensed health care professionals while learning about local Panamanian culture. A typical Medical/Dental Brigade clinic consists of six stations: Intake, Triage, Consultation, Dental, Charla (health education), and Pharmacy. Electronic patient records are collected during the brigade to ensure patient follow-up as well as to monitor overall community health trends. Between brigades, the in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and conduct community health worker training aimed at empowering local leaders to perpetuate a consistent level of health care. For every student who volunteers on a Global Medical Brigade, sixty patients can see a doctor who otherwise would not be able to.

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Aishwarya Nambiar

Passionate about: I am passionate about helping people that can\'t help themselves. Not everyone gets the opportunity to seek help, so I would love to find them and give them the help they need to receive.

Taylor Parks

Passionate about: I love helping others. I have always been a person who loves to volunteer and recently I have found a love of helping people through medicine.
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