Show A remote Humanitarian a e ex- ex p. p erien leaves a lasting i o ri Wendy Scott Contributing Writer A few students students' recently had the opportunity to to travel to a remote unconventional classroom in the jungles of Iquitos P Pent Perri for a life changing experience they will never forget Tropical Pathology and Infectious Disease Association is a private educational organization designed to teach students in the basic science diagnosis and treatment of infectious tropical diseases while to other countries Students gain real life training that focuses on their aspirations in health healthcare healthcare healthcare care while earning course credits and deepening their growth and compassion for this field People were coming in with wit malaria dengue fever and o other her various tropical diseases People with impetigo bruised and bleeding with blisters all over their bodies said Calvin Morrow a SL C student Being able to treat cure and help in any anyway anyway anyway way was a message to me that doctors nurses or any sort of medical staff are making a big difference in these peoples people's lives I want to make that difference in my life The curriculum for this intense 7 day course in tropical medicine and infectious disease was developed by faculty members Lane Rolling MD M.D. and John Adlish PhD Ph.D. The course consists of clinical rotations lectures a jungle clinic lab rotation a aday aday aday day with a local shaman and much more Participating students can expect to help patients suffering from froma a number of infectious diseases that are all too common in developing nations One of the objectives of this organization is to take students out of the classroom and put them ina in ina a real-life real situation said Adlish This organization wants to assist developing nations and train American students If you take them out of this country and place them in a setting that makes an impact on Ort them and bring them back we see their compassion and their drive increase Tropical diseases are more common in developing countries where unsanitary conditions further promote their spread We wal walked ed through the market in one of the small villages there was no electricity and no running water said Tabitha Morrow MOlTow a student There was raw meat sitting in the sun covered in flies The blood from the meat was seeping into the fresh produce which shared the same table Nobody was was' washing their hands you could almost see the disease spreading We learned first hand what kind of problems the people living in the jungle face verses the people living in the cities Its really different said Aaron a Student Here we are so concerned about keeping up with the Jones' Jones while down there some people barely had home hom they were cooking their food on the street but they were enjoying life They all had smiles on their faces This course course cours is specifically designed for undergraduate students majoring in health healthcare healthcare healthcare care professional health healthcare healthcare healthcare care specialists and premedical premedical premedical pre- pre medical or medical students interested in acquiring firsthand firsthand first first- firsthand hand clinical and laboratory experience in the treatment of tropical diseases The course is designed for small class sizes It consists of five clinical days in local hospitals and a two days dayson on the Amazon River to conduct a medical clinic that caters to the needs of smaller v villages lacking in medical treatment As with any other college course there are tuition fees h however wever a port portion on of those fees are used to purchase medicine dicine in Peru for the jungle clini clinics s. s It was agreed by several of the students that the most difficult part of th this s experience was coming home Honestly the people probably had more more of an effect on me then I r left on them said Calvin Morrow a stude student |