Anne Nguyen

Austin, TX

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I am passionate about medicine and volunteering. Medicine fascinates me because I enjoy learning about the human body. I volunteer because I like helping others and the feeling I experience after doing so is priceless. I volunteer at Brackenridge and the interactions I had with patients have helped me gain compassion and motivation to pursue a career in the medical field.

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The reason I want to volunteer in another country like Honduras is because I want to gain a different perspective from my every day life. Volunteering around the local community and at the hospital has helped me gain valuable knowledge and experience. I want to use that to help those who less fortunate than I am. I am fortunate to have a roof over my head and live in a place where medical attention is always available. That is not always the case in other parts of the world. Volunteering in Honduras will help me gain skills in medicine as well as broaden my perspective of the world. Perhaps this will be a life-changing experience that will help me become a doctor one day.

Volunteer Activity Description

Volunteers on the Medical and Dental Brigades will be working closely together to provide quality health initiatives to a community that otherwise has limited access to health care. Volunteers will 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 will receive a physician consultation, teeth cleaning and a fluoride treatment as well as have access to pap smears, prostate exams and restorative dental care as necessary. Volunteers will 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.

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