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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
Highlights<br />
Global Health Bridge at Danbury Hospital, February first<br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Highlights<br />
Reviews<br />
GH Narrative<br />
Reflections<br />
Hispanic and Latinx Voices<br />
Global Local<br />
Voices of Ugandan<br />
Students<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Women’s Health Education<br />
Innovation and Technology<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />
Can Be<br />
Article of the Month<br />
You’re Invited<br />
Photo News<br />
Calendar<br />
Global Health Family<br />
Resources<br />
Previous Issues of<br />
the <strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
Written by Krystal Gopaul ‘24<br />
LCOM’s Class of 2024<br />
The Final Day of the Global Health<br />
Bridge Course at Danbury Hospital<br />
On February 1st, we concluded our first annual<br />
UVM/Nuvance Health Global Health Bridge course,<br />
an innovative curriculum designed to introduce<br />
medical students to global health. The day began<br />
with a talk on health professions education and a case study from Vietnam<br />
led by Dr. Duy Khoa Duong, a Fulbright Scholar from University of Medicine<br />
and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.This was a very interactive session<br />
where we had the opportunity to design our own medical curriculum and<br />
learn about medicine in Vietnam. Next, we heard a real life case study from<br />
Mulago, Uganda from Dr. Alex Kayongo, a research fellow in the department of<br />
Immunology and Molecular Biology at Makerere University College of Health<br />
Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, and Dr. Majid Sadigh. It was a very unfortunate<br />
case of a patient’s life that could have easily been saved but due to resource<br />
limited conditions in Uganda, passed away. Hearing the story and seeing the<br />
pictures from the physicians there in person was an indescribable experience.<br />
We must be extremely grateful for the medical resources we have in the United<br />
States.<br />
We then had a great active learning experience on intercultural development<br />
led by a local expert, Beth West. This workshop not only highlighted the<br />
importance of intercultural learning and development in global health but also<br />
how important it is at home. With the American population becoming more<br />
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