{"id":2818,"date":"2014-03-31T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2015-08-25T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:04:14","slug":"college-of-pharmacy-leads-first-health-focused-immersion-to-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2014\/03\/31\/college-of-pharmacy-leads-first-health-focused-immersion-to-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Pharmacy leads first health-focused immersion to Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pharm-spring-break\"<\/a>The College of Pharmacy partnered with University Ministries for an\u00a0international\u00a0spring break Immersion trip geared towards\u00a0health professional and pre-health professions students. The team was comprised of four faculty and staff members, one professional medical interpreter, eight undergraduate students with an interest or major in healthcare-related fields and two\u00a0fourth-year pharmacy students. Together they provided diabetes, asthma and vision screenings, as well as nutrition, hygiene and first-aid education to migrant workers at Finca la Azotea<\/a> coffee plantation, in Antigua, Guatemala. Additionally, the team spent one day working with at Escuela Proyecto la Esperanza<\/a>, an non-governmental\u00a0organization school for underprivileged children assessing height weight, and vision percentile projections.<\/p>\n

Immersion activities included learning about the processes of growing, harvesting, roasting and packaging coffee, grocery shopping in a neighborhood market, visiting a private university, Universidad Francisco Marroqu\u00edn<\/a>, touring the Moore Pediatric Surgery Center<\/a>\u00a0and attending religious services on Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact we may have had from simply educating the plantation employees may save lives one day. We had a few patients share they had family members who died or had been in danger because they did not know basic first-aid.\u00a0 According to our partner in Guatemala, who initiated and helped organize this trip, many other coffee plantations are now expressing interest in collaborating with Belmont to provide similar services at their locations in the future,\u201d said\u00a0Jordan Tarter, a fourth-year pharmacy student.<\/p>\n

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This established and ongoing partnership in Guatemala directly complements the College of Pharmacy\u2019s and Belmont\u2019s overall commitment to missions. This is evidenced by the ability of pharmacy and undergraduate students from varied programs to concentrate their experiential learning in missions or public health, if they so choose. It also provides an opportunity to explore interdisciplinary learning and collaboration, as students representing a variety of health and pre-health professional fields combine in one immersion experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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