VCOM 2016 Annual Report

Honduras

D uring international rotations in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, third- and fourth- year VCOM students and faculty provide care for patients in the VCOM- affiliated James Moody Adams (JMA) Clinic. Students on rotation also support the night shift staff in labor and delivery at the nearby Hospital San Felipe where there are typically 30 births per 24 hour cycle. VCOM students and faculty provide women’s health services at the clinic and, with the support of the Baxter Institute, launched a women’s health campaign to fund and coordinate faster results for patients in one or two days. Over the course of two

Basic First Aid/First Responder Training was completed for all fourth-year ministry students and their spouses at VCOM’s partner institution, the Baxter Institute. Participants finished a third session of training, demonstrating completion of the First Responder curriculum developed and implemented by VCOM, to be used as an annual educational program at the Baxter Institute. VCOM has expanded its geographical reach in Honduras to the mountainous, coffee-growing regions of Santa Rosa de Copán. Four times a year, VCOM students travel to some of the most underserved areas of Honduras.

outreach trips in 2015, pap smear tests and exams were provided for over 100 women. VCOM students in Honduras also have the opportunity to participate in afternoon emergency room rotations at the National Hospital, which serves over 800 patients daily. International student rotations in this setting focus on four distinct areas: emergency medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and surgery. This experience allows medical students the unique opportunity to work with English-speaking Honduran residents and physicians in Honduras’ largest hospital and trauma center.

During the 2015-2016 year,

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