My student elective. Problems in Peru.

My student elective. Babies and bananas: on foot in Rwanda.

My student elective. Acumen in the Transkei.

taking my elective in an underdeveloped part of the world, but the scene below made me feel wary. An hour after leaving the international section of Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, and 36 hours after leaving Heathrow, I arrived at K D Matanzima Airport, Transkei, which is 15 km outside the capital Umtata. After "scrounging" a lift into town, I managed to secure a two-month study visa from a ne...

My student elective: surgery in Jersey City.

N;WAK ,4Q¶~'and "the team" with 2 { :. ..-Jer t.Cit;& 859° whom I was to be workJersyC.t',> . :,singfor the next eight Airpor weeks. Half an hour 2x ffi , ',_ ---: later I was in operating room B (the OR for short) trying to manipulate a fibreoptic bronchoscope into the right main bronchus of my first p,atient and hoping At[antic desperately that the City l s w!3___ ----_ trousers of my extra|_...

Assessing Student Attitudes as a Result of Participating in an Interprofessional Healthcare Elective Associated with a Student-Run Free Clinic.

BACKGROUND: An interprofessional elective using a student-run clinic can introduce students to professional roles, collaborative patient care, and health disparities. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Students from four professions (pharmacy, medicine, physician assistant, and physical therapy) participated in a service-learning elective where they received weekly didactic lectures and provided healthcare...

Diabetic neuropathy: Past, present, and future

Background: A sedentary lifestyle and an unhealthy diet have considerably increased the incidence of diabetes mellitus worldwide in recent decades, which has generated a high rate of associated chronic complications. Methods: A narrative review was performed in MEDLINE, EMBASES and SciELO databases, including 162 articles. Results: Diabetic neuropathy (DN) is the most common of these complic...