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Appendix B
Questionnaire to be Filled Out on the Return Flight from the
Dr/Haiti Mission
Name and Date
1. How many of our group do you NOW feel you know really well?
2. How did this experience match your expectations? What was unexpected?
3. How well did this trip fulfill your motivations for making it?
4. Are you thinking now of making another such trip in the near future?
5. If yes, How soon? To what destination? Under what auspices?
6. Did you do many of the things you were hoping to do at the outset/
7. What did you NOT get to do that you had hoped to?
8. What is your opinion of the A. Health care component of this trip?
9. What is your opinion of the medical education component of this trip?
10.What is your opinion of the adventure travel/accommodation component?
11.What would you change?
12.How has this trip changed you?
13.Do you think this trip or change in you will have an effect on your career?
14.Did you encounter any of the fears you were anxious about? Or add new
ones?
15.How many rolls of film, digital disc exposures, audiotapes, notepads, cards
or letters did you produce during the trip? What souvenirs did you carry
back?
16.What would you advise someone following you on the next trip to do?
17.What is the one most special thing you learned?
18.Describe the most memorable patient you encountered.
19.Have there been any important people who have influenced what you
learned this trip?
20.What would you say in summary of your experience on this trip?
Appendix C
Justification for Investment in Medical Student International
Medical Education Experiences
In encouraging new applicants for medical student service abroad in developing
nations, we have conducted an annual student-led review of the experiences of the
available student “veterans” who report to their underclassmen about these
life-changing experiences. Those who have reported formally this year (N= 80 of the
partial list, and still accruing) have stated that it had been among the most valuable
experiences in their medical school careers, with a number reporting that it was the
single most intensive and rewarding medical learning experience of their lives. Many
have spontaneously opined that this experience was life- and career-altering and
nearly all reported that their attitudes toward patients of different origins, economic
and social status were changed to be more expanded, inclusive and appreciative.
The motives for such applicants to service abroad have been varied with three
major themes: (1) A unique opportunity to get early and extensive responsibility for
a wide variety of patient care under extraordinary constraints of technology and
skilled manpower shortages for the treatment of common and exotic diseases in