Shadowing a doctor: You will sit right next to the doctor and listen as he or she meets with patients, diagnoses conditions, and prescribes treatment. You will have opportunities to ask questions and learn as much as you would like. You might even learn a few skills like how to differentiate between the heartbeat of an unborn fetus' and the mother with a stethoscope, or how to treat an open wound.
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Measure Vital Statistics: Learn how to take blood pressure readings, analyze blood sugar levels, take height and weight measurements, and temperature readings. You will learn these skills and then use these skills, because volunteers take all the vital statistics and record them for the doctors.
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Manage the Pharmacy: Once the doctors have prescribed medications, volunteers fill the prescriptions and give them to patients with instructions.
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Public Health Workshops You will work 6 clinical days - there is one additional day devoted to public health classes. Teams will arrive at local schools and teach children the importance of hygiene, dental health, hand washing, nutrition, or any other subject the team decides to teach. Ideally teams will bring something to distribute to the children such as toothbrushes or bars of soap.
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