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Last day in the clinic |
Today was last day of data collection and classes at the Elmina Urban Health Center. There were many people to say bye to and thank for sharing their time, open minds and the space of their clinic with us for two weeks. The class ended with more students than it started with, as healthcare workers from nearby clinics and hospitals trickled in to join us.
I felt that the class also ended with a general positive feeling of what had been learned and achieved. We decided to go over the post-test after all had taken it in an effort to solidify knowledge and address any outstanding questions. We went around the room as each person explained the answer to a question. This spirit of group-teaching had been echoed throughout the course – in which people would each take on teaching what they knew about a topic to open the discussion and teaching – rather than creating a lecture instructor-student dynamic. Healthcare workers continually seemed to seek us out to ask questions about the materials. For me, as a medical student who has not had the opportunity to do much teaching yet, I found great pleasure in explaining what my new, limited knowledge of medicine could add. The course also served as a platform to start off with making health lifestyle changes amongst ourselves – talking about the healthcare worker’s own daily lives and partaking together in an exercise walk.
In the second week in Elmina, I was also able to go on a village outreach with some community health nurses from the clinic. In a village 20-30 minutes from Elmina, nurses weighed and vaccinated infants. Child undernutrition is clearly a huge problem in the region, even as overnutrition and cardiovascular disease develop simultaneously in older segments of the population. It seemed to me that the vast activities directed at undernutrition provided an opportunity for some cardiovascular disease prevention as well. For example, I heard that nurses take blood pressures of the mothers and fathers who bring their infants to these weigh-in’s. One nutritionist in our class at the clinic deals exclusively with counseling parents about child malnutrition, but she was eager in expanding her own knowledge and skill set to understand overweight, obesity and chronic disease as well. I have hope that there are creative areas of intervention in a healthcare structure that treats primarily malaria and undernutrition that can care for a population increasingly touch by a burden of chronic disease.
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