Physicians for Amazon Medical Clinic
Amazon-Africa Aid Organization (3AO)
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Location:
| Santarem - Brazil | |
Highlights:
| The Amazon African Aid Organization supports a health clinic run by the Funadação Esperança, a nonprofit Brazilian health and education organization | |
Length:
| 3 Week(s) | |
Host Language:
| Portuguese | |
Field(s) of Work:
| Medicine | |
Accommodations:
| Dormitory | |
Compensation:
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Description:
| The Amazon African Aid Organization supports a health clinic run by the Funadação Esperança, a nonprofit Brazilian health and education organization which has been providing health care along the Brazilian Amazon for over 30 years. The health clinic depends on volunteer dentists and physcians to provide care for the needy people of the Amazon. Please join us and make a difference.
Clinical volunteers help out by seeing ambulatory patients in Fundação Esperança’s general medical clinic and women’s health programs, while providing personal and technical interchange and the chance for continuing education for our Brazilian staff. Volunteers see a wide variety of patient problems, including tropical diseases, chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, and acute problems. Fundação Esperança provides experienced translators (English/Portuguese only) and nursing staff to facilitate the volunteer’s work, and Fundação Esperança’s laboratory provides support. X-ray, ultrasound, and even tomography are available in Santarém through the government public health service.
Because Fundação Esperança is not a hospital, volunteers work only weekdays. There is no need for night call or weekend work. Since one of the roles of volunteers is technical exchange with our staff, volunteers are encouraged to bring one or more educational talks on a topic of their choice. Fundação Esperança’s aims to have two clinical volunteers at all times working in the clinic. Residents in their final years of training are welcome.
Gynecologists are somewhat different from other clinical volunteers in that they work together with the Women’s Health program. Gynecologists perform only ambulatory gynecology, seeing only patients referred by specially-trained nursing staff. Volunteers will typically see patients who require colposcopy, LEEP, diagnosis and treatment of hormonal disorders, and prenatal care for complicated pregnancies. There is no gynecological surgery and there are no deliveries at Fundação Esperança.
While most clinical volunteers are either family practitioners, general practitioners, pediatricians, gynecologists, or internists, Fundação Esperança has occasionally hosted other clinical specialists and subspecialists. These specialists typically come for shorter tours (2 weeks), or come prepared to see some general medical patients as well as those within their specialty.
NOTE: Some professions including osteopathic physicians, podiatry, optometry, and chiropractry are not legalized in Brazil, and therefore we are unable to accept volunteers in these professions.
Unfortunately, because of Brazilian law, we are unable to accept medical students.
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URL:
| http://www.amazonafrica.org/ |
This listing is part of PlanetEdu's Volunteer category.
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