VOLUNTEER MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Using a medical volunteer program to motivate medical freshmen.

PURPOSE A task force identified 4 core properties of motivation-related improvement and developed a medical volunteer program for 63 medical freshmen in 2012. Three overarching topics were examined: What were the contents of the program? Did students' motivation improve? Were the students satisfied with the course? Pretest and posttest motivation levels and program evaluation forms were analyze...

[South Slav Volunteer Movement Medical Service in Russia (1914-1919) - Serbian Volunteer Movement].

Ve od samog po etka Prvog svetskog rata u Rusiji, me u austrougarskim vojnicima slovenskih naroda koji su bili prebegli ili zarobljeni, pojavio se pokret za u eš e u borbama na savezni koj strani kako bi i li no doprineli osloboenju svojih naroda od viševekovne tu inske vlasti. Pokret je bio posebno snažan me u mla im, školovanim zarobljenicima koji su bili zadojeni slobodoumnim idejama nastali...

Medical-surgical nurses volunteer to aid tsunami victims.

Note: In this column, the author describes some of the experiences of a medicalsurgical nurse volunteer aboard the United States Navy Ship (USNS) Mercy. Mr. Yates served on the second Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) rotation aboard the Mercy from February 26 to March 20, 2005. The earthquake and resulting tsunami of December 26, 2004, in the Indian Ocean affected 12 co...

A Medical Naval Volunteer on Duty at Quebec, July, 1908

Assessing pediatric anesthesia practices for volunteer medical services abroad.

BACKGROUND Anesthetic techniques and problems in volunteer medical services abroad are different from those of either the developed countries from which volunteers originate or the host country in which they serve because of differences in patient population, facilities, and goals for elective surgery. Assessing outcomes is hampered by the transience of medical teams and the global dispersion o...