Volunteering in India: Lesley Schwab
Lesley Schwab is an Orthopedic Physiotherapist from Prince George, BC, and has been a Case-Based Learning tutor in the Musculoskeletal block of the undergraduate UBC medial program for the past 4 years. Her passion for physiotherapy and physical rehabilitation has taken her as far away as Koppal, South India. Lesley’s friend and fellow physiotherapist, […]
École Ébenezer
By Kevin Koopman, 1st year UBC medical student (Class of 2017) The Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti are two dramatically different nations sharing one island, each with their own culture, government, currency, and language. Sadly, Dominicans have developed a deep-rooted racial prejudice towards Haitians, resulting in on-going exploitation of Haitians on sugar cane […]
Interview with Dr. Tobias Kollmann
Dr. Tobias Kollmann (MD, PhD) is an associate professor in the Division of Infectio…
A Lesson from Kanyawegi, Kenya
By Clarus Leung, 2nd year UBC medical student (Class of 2016) In the summer of…
Zimbabwe Roots
Post #5: Nothing Clinical This Trip……..Right! The trip is over. Our int…
Experiences with Voice of the Children
Written by Nav Sidhu (Class of 2016, VFMP) This past summer I had the opportunity to travel to Uttarakhand, a province in northern India, as apart of the Voice of the Children (VOC) Global Health Initiative (GHI) project. For four weeks myself and three other medical students worked alongside two local NGOs called AMAN and […]
Spotlights: Dr. Johanna Crane and Dr. Jeff Reading
Written by Natasha Simula, VFMP 2016 The 2nd Annual BC Global Health Student Forum was held in September this year at UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues. Two Professors that are very engaged in Global Health, Dr. Jeff Reading and Dr. Johanna Crane, attended as keynote speakers. The Global Health Dispatch had the privilege to talk to […]
Dispatch in Lubango, Angola
Written by Alvis Yu (Class of 2015, VFMP) This summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Angola for a short-term medical mission, where I was paired with Dr. Steven Foster, a general surgeon at the Evangelical Medical Center of Lubango (CEML). Lubango is a city where adequate medical care and health education are lacking. […]
Volunteer for Change – a reflection from Nepal
Written by Jennifer Losie (Class of 2017, VFMP) A piercing cry rippled through the crowded seven bed Emergency Room as a frantic mother ran in with her small infant. The baby wailed as nurses and paramedics quickly whisked her away to a tiny room beside Emergency. As I stood in the crowded treatment room, I […]
Nepal – a Country of Contradictions
Written by Justyne Morrow (Class of 2016, VFMP) After 24 hours of travel, the Health Trek Nepal team landed in Kathmandu, Nepal excited for the upcoming three weeks of volunteer work and already slicked with sweat in the heavy humidity. We met with medical students from the Patan Academy of Health Science, who were students without any education […]