Emily Steckbeck

Pennsylvania State University

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I am very involved in the Women's Club Lacrosse team at Penn State. I am a Kinesiology major, Spanish and Sociology minor, with the intent of continuing my education and becoming a Physical Therapist. My ultimate goal is to give Physical Therapy treatment to people in underprivileged communities all over the world and first started when I took a mission trip to Dominican Republic. While there, a team of doctors and volunteers, like myself, gave free cataract surgeries to over 50 patients in a 5 day period. This goal is the main reason why I am participating in GMB.

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Penn State Medical/Dental Brigade Panama May 2013



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Medical Brigade volunteers will set up temporary clinics in pre-identified communities in Eastern Panama to provide healthcare where access is limited. Each community receives a brigade every 3-4 months. Students on the brigade are given the opportunity to shadow licensed health care professionals while learning about local Panamanian culture. A typical Medical/Dental Brigade clinic consists of six stations: Intake, Triage, Consultation, Dental, Charla (health education), and Pharmacy. Electronic patient records are collected during the brigade to ensure patient follow-up as well as to monitor overall community health trends. Between brigades, the in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and conduct community health worker training aimed at empowering local leaders to perpetuate a consistent level of health care. For every student who volunteers on a Global Medical Brigade, sixty patients can see a doctor who otherwise would not be able to.

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