UCLA Dental Brigade - June 2013 Panama


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Volunteer Activity Description

Start Date: Jun 18, 2013 7:00 AM
End Date: Jun 24, 2013 3:00 PM

Dental Brigade volunteers will set up temporary clinics in pre-identified communities in Eastern Panama to provide health care 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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Gabriella Marvizi

Passionate about: Saving the world is my passion...one Panamanian at a time.

Janae Osby

Passionate about: PUBLIC HEALTH!!!!
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