UCLA Medical Brigade - June 2013 Panama


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Volunteer Activity Description

Start Date: Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM
End Date: Jun 24, 2013 12:00 AM

Medical 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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Aakash Keswani

Passionate about: Third world access to health care, understanding how cultural and socioeconomic factors play into health literacy, how population-based health strategies can be implemented to maximize outcomes improv... [Read More]

Aaron Lapidus

Passionate about: Many people take their health for granted, and do not think about those in different parts of the world who do not have access to the basic medical care that they need. A big reason why I want to go i... [Read More]
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