In a few days I head to Jamaica for a 1 month rotation. I've been looking forward to this for over a year. I will be working with another pediatrician and we will be consulting on pediatric problems. In Jamaica Pediatrics is more like a sub-speciality and most kids are taken care of by general practitioners. So if those practitioners are scratching their heads they send them to us. There are very few pediatricians in the country and most live and work in the metro areas *much like everywhere else in the world* so the ministry of health will be transporting us to less populated areas.
The foundation I'm going with is the Issa trust Foundation. Please do look them up and make a donation if you can. I'll try to blog a few times while I am there. http://issatrustfoundation.com/
I really look forward to using my new fancy microchip passport. I had the old flimsy paper one without enough pages that just expired last november. I am so excited to be going to work with the global underserved. For the first time EVER I will actually have skills and expertise to provide care that is actually helpful. This is what excites me most. I have appreciated working the front desk at Legon hospital in Ghana, and organizing impromptu clinics in Ecuador, and observing HIV care in Botswana. But this is something I have had to get specialty training (that as hard as it is, is truly a gift; I'm very lucky and in a very small minority of people world wide) to be able to do and now at the end of my residency, I finally have something to offer.
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