HUDA Clinic is a free medical clinic that provide its services to the public with no cost. I volunteered at the Huda Clinic four-five hours per day for 18 months (number of days in each months vary). My role at HUDA clinic as volunteer is to take patients vital signs( blood pressure, temperature, Pulse, blood sugar, height and weight), history, prepare medical charts for health professionals, and teach the new volunteers how to do all that . By taking vital signs and patient history and develop a clear pain assessment and present it to the physician, it is make it easier and quicker for the physician to diagnosis the patients and develop a pain management plan. I saw many patients with different medical conditions but most of our patients
As I volunteered and continued to read, I began to see the kids I played with differently. I didn’t just see them for their disease or complications, but I saw their heart, and the joy they felt just by doing simple things. I started to imagine their families and wondered what they might be going through, having a child live in a hospital. I kept remembering how confused and misled the Lacks’ family was with the health care system, and even though, I’m not a doctor, I hoped the best for the patient’s well-being and their
As a result, medical interpreters have been trained and hired to be interpreters and to assist foreigners to access and utilize healthcare services as well as mediating in incidences of conflict between healthcare personnel and patients. Essentially medical interpreters have been hired to bridge the language gap between locals and foreigners in healthcare facilities. Besides, the code of ethics and competencies for medical interpreters are considered to maintain the quality healthcare services. Extensive immigration is a rather a current issue leading to a language barrier between the foreign patients and the healthcare provider and so medical interpreters are essential so that the patients and physician are able to interact well. Most healthcare
Cultural Analysis Korean Americans America is filled with increasing diversity, though this may bring an abundance of possibilities through interacting with other ethnic groups, it also comes with many problems. These problems are particularly for those who are in the health care system whether you are a health care provider, social worker or nurse. The challenge at hand is about cultural competence. Cultural competence is the ability to adequately provide the linguistic and ethical needs of your patient.
The language barrier in healthcare creates a huge gap in communication, especially where there is a huge number of people from the Hispanic community coming in for health services. In order to learn more about this issue, on October 13, 2017, I interviewed Mary Kay Rosolie in La Red Health Center on her profession and what she goes through with the majority of her patients being Latinos. Not having the ability to speak Spanish builds a huge barrier in communication. Although Mrs. Rosolie has worked in the medical field for many years, she stated that it is extremely difficult to interact with a Spanish speaking family when they know little to no English. It used to be that when there was no available staff to translate they would have to call
Interpreters should take into consideration the meaning of nonverbal aspects of communication such as posture, eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, nodding, physical closeness, physical contact; loudness, pitch, speed, flow, the intonation of their voice, sentence stress etc. Even in medical discourse cultural background and beliefs should be taken into account during interpreting so as not to limit the process to verbatim rendering, which can lead to misunderstandings due to culturally rooted beliefs or superstitions dealing with health and healthcare. The job of an interpreter as a culture broker is to make sure the patients understand the doctor’s instructions and will follow them in future even if they go against their cultural beliefs, and the healthcare providers get the full and accurate picture of the patient’s symptoms, and there are no cross-cultural misunderstanding between the two
I then aspire to attend medical school, ultimately to practice medicine internationally with Doctors Without Borders. I would like to serve patients living in impoverished communities in either China or Francophone West Africa. My training in philosophy and French – including a study abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France – has well-equipped me for this future endeavor. By studying French, I have had the opportunity to build relationships with people who are different from me, thus transcending the barriers that can so often divide us,
Through my studies of human expression and its reflection of how people deal with world events in different ways, I developed sensitivity to other worldviews that continues to prove useful through my daily interactions with people of different backgrounds. I have learned that just like art, medicine involves pattern recognition and derives insight from experiences. Similarly, what I especially enjoy about being a medical assistant is interacting with patients on a daily basis and getting to be a part of their medical experiences, even if it is just by lending an ear. The experiences on my path to a career in medicine have made me want to make a real, tangible difference in the lives of those around me – a difference that leaves my patients in a better condition than they were in before I met them.
Regarding effective communication, “good interpretation and good translation go a long way toward solving cross-cultural communication problems and language barriers in health care” (Dreachslin, Gilbert & Malone, 2013, p. 289). These services, through interpreters or voice-assisted devices, provide better opportunities to blend cultures and understand the tradition and beliefs of diverse populations. These two topics were just samplings of the information discussed, but they stuck out to me on a personal level, while pushing me to promote cultural competence and understanding beyond this course in all my future workplace
But to people with faith, God open the way, and every day I was more excited. Through some friends I found out of the existence of The International Institute for Healthcare Professionals, located in Boca Raton, this city is very close to where I live. There I went and introduced my selves with the director of the center, a very polite and educated woman, which treated me with great respect despite never having seen her before. She guides us and gives us the possibility to enroll and begin the song road that it is worth. It was a short but so pleasant and fruitful time, what it is inexplicable because we had been fulfilled a dream a purpose that had seen I decided to stay in this wonderful country.
To be completely honest, when I first decided to pursue a career in medicine, I was immature and selfish. I believed: "Volunteering isn 't benefitting me, so why should I spend my valuable time doing it?" Now, after 4 years of life-changing experiences, I have a whole new perspective about serving others. My experiences volunteering have made me not only more passionate about pursuing such a beautiful, self-rewarding career but more prepared to tackle the many daily challenges of a physician.
Placing the lessons acquired from my public speaking course into practice, I developed the ability to convey a coherent message to a broad audience. This was attained when I was frequently given the opportunity to teach a chemistry class of 200 surplus students. I plan to continue to utilize this invaluable tool in my medical career. Over time, my service extended outward to address the absence of enthusiasm for education, which plagues Miami's impoverished communities.
REFLECTION OF THE INTERVIEW 2.1 Description A component of the Effective Communication module, is an Inter-professional Education (IPE) enrichment activity and we were put into groups with the Pharmacy students. There were in total 2 Nursing students and 3 Pharmacy students. We were tasked to interview a healthcare professional. We interviewed Dr Edwin Lim from Tzu Chi Free Health Screening and Free Clinic (TCFC). He specialises in Family Medicine.
For the majority of people, pursuing a career in the medical field is a career which should be avoided at all costs. Whether this profession is a surgeon, a nurse, or a psychiatrist, the long hours of study and work (which are necessary for these occupations), are not in most people’s definition of a “fun job.” In addition, after the long years of study come to an end, the most feared moments arise, the time to pay student loans. Nevertheless, none of these obstacles intimidated Juan Delgado in order to pursue his dream as a healthcare professional, more importantly, to help our community. Delgado, the oldest of two, was born on December 3rd,1991.
I am passionate about helping other people. Any person with a passion wants to spend as much time as possible doing it because it is something they love, however not everyone has the chance to do so. I feel blessed to say that I had the opportunity to contribute to my passion during this gap year by working as a volunteer in a children’s hospital in Moscow. I worked with children of all ages - from 1 to 14 years, with various diseases and causes for their hospital stay. The diseases vary; some are very serious, even deadly, while other children come to the hospital just for a general check up.
