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OUR PEOPLE, Perspective OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine December 2022 Perspective Highlights Welcome Congratulations Article of the Month Video of the Month Ebola in Uganda Decolonization Innovation and Technology Among the Letters Nursing Division Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Reflections Our Beautiful Planet Upcoming Grand Rounds New Publication Global Health Family Calendar Photo Gallery Resources The Value of Global Health: Perspectives from the Bedside Written by Stephen Scholand, MD The Nuvance/UVMLCOM Global Health Program serves a very important and multifunctional role in healthcare and particularly in clinical healthcare education. The core of the program is grounded in a bidirectional model to teach the next generation of physicians and healthcare workers. It is truly global in extent – with teaching sites spread over multiple countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond. In this way, the program connects healthcare provision with knowledge, teaching, and genuine compassion. One particularly important aspect of the program is the authentic patient care experiences offered. It is essential to move beyond the textbook, the classroom or Zoom session into the reality of patients’ lives and conditions. Our global health learners are immersed in these experiences across a diversity of settings. Many current and past learners have extolled the amazing opportunities they have had, and related how they were affected or changed as a result. The program’s blog and eMagazine publications are filled with these stories. Some of these accounts highlight the health inequities prevalent in many settings, helping to nurture the development of compassion, concern and humanity. These qualities integrate into who we are as providers and affect “everyday” healthcare back home. Senior clinicians and faculty have in fact noted that the global health experiences resonate with their core ideals and beliefs in the practice of medicine. Our preceptors often report feeling renewed and reinvigorated by participating in these opportunities. Global health then represents not only a frontier for bedside teaching and compassion, but also provides a stalwart foundation of what makes us caring and capable physicians. One personal experience I will always remember was my time spent working on a dengue fever ward in a city hospital in the tropics. Seeing and spending time with patients on rounds every day, noting their physical and clinical appearance with only a singular platelet count once a week, helped enhance my clinical skills and reframe my own perspectives on caring for patients. Learning to heal without all the technological distractions was possible and readily achievable. In sum, global health opportunities through the Nuvance/UVMLCOM Program provide a comprehensive framework for clinical learning. Partnerships with other health institutions and people are forged and strengthened. Human connections become the fabric with which we share our knowledge and provide experienced based teaching opportunities. Our friendships are strong, and our leadership is visionary. We look forward to the continued prosperity of the program. Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT (Majid Sadigh) 2
OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine December 2022 Perspective Highlights Welcome Congratulations Article of the Month Highlights Grace’s Promise: Early Childhood Education in Nakaseke, Uganda Grace Herrick graduated from the University of Connectictut’s Honors Program with a degree in global health in May 2021. Since then, she has worked as an EMT for Nuvance Health Network. She continues to work on Grace’s Promise, Inc. and is currently applying to medical school. While education is free in Uganda, the books, fees, and uniforms are not. Without these resources, one cannot attend. Even with them, many children struggle to stay in school for lack of preparation. Grace’s Promise, a 501©3, partnered Video of the Month Ebola in Uganda Decolonization Innovation and Technology Among the Letters Nursing Division Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Reflections Our Beautiful Planet Upcoming Grand Rounds New Publication Global Health Family Calendar Photo Gallery Resources with the African Center for Social Sustainability (ACCESS) in 2016 to develop an early childhood school program. The program first ran out of the Nursing School on Saturdays with an initial enrollment of sixty. Through fundraising, a permanent structure was built to allow daily attendance. The land surrounding the school was cleared for planting crops to help provide meals. Meanwhile, the program gave parents the opportunity to develop income-generating skills while the children were in school. Parents received interest-free microloans to start businesses based on their skills to pay for school fees once their children matriculated into kindergarten from the preschool program. With COVID-19, construction of the school was suspended and the entire community quarantined. To help students continue their studies, ACCESS staff provided in-home tutoring visits, school supplies, study materials, and meals in addition to distributing masks. After a two-year school shutdown, the government lifted the quarantine and the children began in January 2022 at the new preschool building. Enrollment has increased to 101, with students’ ages ranging between two and nine, divided into three classroom groups based on age and skills. Seven subjects are taught on a weekly basis, including physical education and “circle time,” which is an opportunity for social engagement. Future plans are to increase the farming scale so that the school can produce most of the food served/eaten there. Grace’s Promise continues to look for grants to establish a bakery for the school and the community. 3 Highlights continued on next page >>
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