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Two Tufts MD/MPH students and one Tufts MD student spent the summer in San Juan del Sur,Nicaragua. Partnering with an organization called "Finca Las Nubes,” the students helped facili-tate diabetes treatment and management groups in the rural areas surrounding the city. Whenthey were not running clinics, they administered a door-to-door needs assessments and risk perception surveys in the urban center, reaching almost 200 homes. All work was under theguidance of two community health workers and a Nicaraguan doctor, seen here facilitating

exercise groups and taking vitals signs of patients in the treatment group.

Active Citizenship

Interim 2011:

A special thanks to Dr.

Paul Auerbach and Dr.

Yohsuke Takasaki for their

gracious participation inour Interim Program.

Come Hell or High Water:

International Perspectives

on Disaster Relief was a

great success, over 90

students participated in

our discussion of disaster

relief in Haiti and Japan.

International Health Outreach

The Committee on Global and Public Health has been inspired by the work AMA-MSS members havebeen doing at home and abroad. We chose to feature your efforts in this issue of Publicly Speaking. We

hope you enjoy learning about the efforts of medical students across the nation who are working inclinics, teaching in schools, and offering public health screenings. Medical students are working hard toimprove access to healthcare for their neighbors and around the world. If you would like any moreinformation about any of the projects featured in this issue please feel free to contact Lauren Page at

[email protected].

Andrew Osten

Lauren Page Black

Jared Brown

Mariam Eskander

Lauren Gluck

Mitchell Li

Vanessa Stan

Chris Verdick

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Publicly

Speaking

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Students from the University of Louisville can participate in anelective rotation in InternationalHealth during the summer after their first year of medical school.Official programs have been imple-mented in Honduras, Ecuador, andKenya. Pictured with the Indian

Ocean in the background are stu-dents who traveled to Mombasa,Kenya and the surrounding ruralarea for three weeks in the summer of 2010 to provide primary care tothe local population by setting up

clinics at schools and orphanages.

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In the summer of 2011, students from the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign College of Medicine and the University of Buffalo participated in the Bienstar program for women withParkinson’s disease. They raised over $14,000 which was used torebuild a patient’s home and purchase an EKG machine and

hospital beds for a local facility.

Medical students and members of the AMA chapter at the Universityof Texas Medical School at Houstontraveled with Dr. Adan Rios, MD, anoncologist at UT Houston, to his

rural hometown of LasPalmas, Panama inspring 2010. They

worked to form cross-cultural bridges withmedical and nursing

students in the city of Santiago de Veraguas,assisted with patientcare at a hospital inSantiago, and helpedlocal gynecologistsscreen and treat severalhundred women for cervical cancer in area

community clinics.

International Outreach

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An Albert Einstein College of Medicinestudent taking blood pressure at a local schoolin Vellore, India.

The Lamay Clinic Project is a student-founded andstudent-run global health initiative started byCCLCM students three years ago. Each summer,students from CCLCM and Case Western Reserve

University Medical school (along with recruitedphysicians, nurses, and optometrists) go to theSacred Valley region of Peru to provide medicalcare to the native Quechua-speaking population of rural mountain villages, who have little or no accessto healthcare throughout the year. As part of thisproject, students provide education aboutobstetrics, back pain, dental care, and gastritis,conduct eye exams and distribute glasses to lay

health workers in the region.

Chicago Medical School students teaching aboutHIV/AIDS awareness and prevention at Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence inKampala, Uganda.

Project Haiti is a medical mission trip of the University of FloridaCollege of Medicine and Shands Hospital. Every spring since 1996Project Haiti has provided free healthcare to people of Haiti and theDominican Republic; last year they were able to treat 4,000 patients

over the course of the week.



Currently over 600,000 Oregoniansare uninsured, with 558 dyingunnecessarily every year from lack of access to healthcare. Oregonstudents came together with thefourth annual health fair at “Potluck in the Park at O'Bryant Square” indowntown Portland on March 6,2011 to provide care for theuninsured. Services were providedby students and physicians from theOHSU schools of medicine, nursing,dentistry, pharmacy, and publichealth as well as the Aveda Instituteand the OSU College of VeterinaryMedicine. Nearly 300 patientsutilized services at the healthscreening fair; 33 patients were seenin the mobile dental vans, over 120

haircuts were performed, and 25dogs were seen. The AMA was one

of many community sponsors.

seminar for the ladies stayingat the house. They presentedtopics including the meaningof blood pressure readings,how to better managediabetes through nutritionalawareness, and the detailsbehind menopause. Theseminar also included a shortyoga lesson to teach the

women ways to stay fit and

active.

The AMA – MSS chapter atFlorida International Universi-ty Herbert Wertheim Collegeof Medicine partnered withCamillus House, a non-profitorganization that provideshumanitarian services tocitizens with lower income. Atthis branch of Camillus house,the chapter worked with the

Junior League of Miami toprovide a women’s health

Outreach at Home

From left to right: Ryan Seibert (MS4 at BU School of Medicine who organized the first medical student health fair in spring2010), the three physicians who supervised the medical studentsfor this year’s health fair: Dr. Shapur Naimi, Dr. Helen Cajigas,Dr. Burton Mandel, and Francis Kim (MS2 at BU who was thisyear’s student organizer). Not pictured: Monica Wood from

Harvard who was the other student organizer.

A medical student at the Medical Student Health Fair in

Boston, Massachusetts fits a child for a bike helmet.



Outreach at Home

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Indiana University medical students educating kids about the dangers of

smoking and encouraging a smoke-free Indiana at a local health fair.

Brown University Alpert Medical School'ssecond year students and faculty dressedin pink to raise awareness of breast cancer issues and treatment. It spurred muchdiscussion both inside and outside of the

medical school community.

Students from the four medical schools in Massachusetts preparing to ride a legin the Region VII relay “Miles for Healthier Lifestyles” in April 2011 to raise

awareness of the need for physical activity as a component of healthy lifestyles.

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