Our First Year
July 1, 2006
Teaching: Working with our educational partners, we will identify a set of approximately 10 interested high school, college or post-graduate students who have the requisite potential, enthusiasm, commitment and emotional maturity to partake on this life transforming adventure.
Over the next 12 weeks, these students will study, learn and train in areas of international public health, first aid, surgical assistance, bandaging and dressing wounds, sterilization of surgical instruments, taking blood pressure and temperature, etc. Students will also study about the social structure, culture, language, and global relationships of the country to be visited.
Mentoring: Through close contact with our racially and ethnically diverse team of medical professionals, doctors and nurses, our students will be mentored in the challenging mission of achieving their own limitless potential. These mentoring relationships are fostered and developed over time. The goal is to support a "pipeline" of achievement, leading students from high school to and through college, on to graduate schools in the health sciences and further through the challenges of professional life.
Leadership: Upon return from the medical mission, students will be required to formulate their experiences into presentations to be made to their schools, churches and community groups including power point, video, public speaking, etc. They will also commit to giving back to their communities in other ways and becoming mentors to future program participants.
October 1, 2006
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Our first trip will be to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the first two weeks of October 2006. Our medical directors for this trip will be SELAM Board members Dr. William Lewis and Dr. Seble Fisseha. The program will have three medical rotations, in Otolaryngology, Public Health and Pediatrics.
Surgical Rotation: Dr. Lewis will lead the surgical portion of the trip. Working with our medical partners fromGlobal ENT Outreach
July 1, 2006
Teaching: Working with our educational partners, we will identify a set of approximately 10 interested high school, college or post-graduate students who have the requisite potential, enthusiasm, commitment and emotional maturity to partake on this life transforming adventure.
Over the next 12 weeks, these students will study, learn and train in areas of international public health, first aid, surgical assistance, bandaging and dressing wounds, sterilization of surgical instruments, taking blood pressure and temperature, etc. Students will also study about the social structure, culture, language, and global relationships of the country to be visited.
Mentoring: Through close contact with our racially and ethnically diverse team of medical professionals, doctors and nurses, our students will be mentored in the challenging mission of achieving their own limitless potential. These mentoring relationships are fostered and developed over time. The goal is to support a "pipeline" of achievement, leading students from high school to and through college, on to graduate schools in the health sciences and further through the challenges of professional life.
Leadership: Upon return from the medical mission, students will be required to formulate their experiences into presentations to be made to their schools, churches and community groups including power point, video, public speaking, etc. They will also commit to giving back to their communities in other ways and becoming mentors to future program participants.
October 1, 2006
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Our first trip will be to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the first two weeks of October 2006. Our medical directors for this trip will be SELAM Board members Dr. William Lewis and Dr. Seble Fisseha. The program will have three medical rotations, in Otolaryngology, Public Health and Pediatrics.
Surgical Rotation: Dr. Lewis will lead the surgical portion of the trip. Working with our medical partners from