From areese@u.washington.edu Thu Nov 7 16:37:40 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.10) with SMTP id gA80bYdr051748 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:37:34 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 07 16:37:32 2002 -0800 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id gA80bXRw008502 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:37:33 -0800 Received: from mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.17]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.10) with SMTP id gA80bXva018836 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:37:33 -0800 Received: FROM hymn14.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 07 16:37:31 2002 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn14.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.10) with ESMTP id gA80bW3k000684 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:37:32 -0800 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:37:32 -0800 (PST) From: "ANNE H. REESE" To: Social & International medicine interest group Subject: Re: Resident international trip In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sounds like a great idea. I don't have that time off, but there is a clinic in Limon, Honduras where I am doing a rotation in 2/03 which is run solely off of volunteers both medical and education wise. I can give you more info if you are interested annie On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, parmi suchdev wrote: > Hi, > I'm an R1 interested in planning an international medical project for this > summer and wanted to see if any of you had an ideas/suggestions/interest. > > Basically, the goal is spend a week providing health education and medical > assistance in Nicaragua or El Salvador. the proposed dates are June 25-30 > (all interns have this week off). > I planned numerous similar trips as a medical student @ Northwestern to > Nicaragua, where we collected supply and medicine donations and basically saw patients for > a week with the help of a local NGO. > We will either travel to Nicaragua again (the Northwestern group has a > trip planned during the same dates) or El Salvador (I have connections > with a friend setting up a clinic through peace corp). > In addition to peds residents, it would be nice to take some attendings, > nurses, public health people, etc. I already have interest from ob/gyn > residents and public health students. > > Attached is a brief brainstorming proposal I have put together. > Please let me know if you have any ideas and are interested in helping > out. > > Thanks, > -Parmi > > ------------------------------------ > Parmi Suchdev, MD, MPH > Pediatrics Resident > Childrens Hospital Seattle > (206)985-2942 > parmi@u.washington.edu > > > > .