Start a Discussion Topic2009 Summer Bridge - Pacific CEED
This group is a place for Pacific Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities (CEED) interns to blog about some of their exciting work and play experiences.
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department: John A. Burns School of Medicine
Program: Pacific Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities (CEED), Mililani and Kokua Kalihi Valley
Student Interns: Leighton Hao (major: Chemistry), Courtney Sakamoto (major: Biology, Hawaiian Studies)
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Ellen Buenoconsejo-Lum
External Website: www.pacificcancer.org/
Internship Description:
Our internship begins with a journey to a small family clinic in Mililani. In Mililani we shadowed residence doctors ranging from beginning first years to third year residents. In order to become a doctor in Family Medicine, post medical school, one must commit three years of service to the location desired. The students we shadowed were part of the University of Hawaii Medical Residency Program. Along with shadowing, we observed the structure of the clinical setting.
As we continued our journey to learn more about the medical field we visited a community health clinic called Kokua Kalihi Valley (K.K.V). K.K.V serves people who live and have lived in the area of Kalihi. The service provides a range from a kids reading room, W.I.C, and counseling to general medical practices. K.K.V believes in community outreach because their goal is to get the community healthy. Different types of community outreach that K.K.V provides is K-vibe, which is a place for kids to hang out after school and during the summer building/rebuilding broken bikes, Geriatrics activities consisting of aerobics and other activities, and also community gardens located at Kohio Park Terrace and also deeper in the valley called Ho’oulu ‘Aina.
The last part of our journey leads us to Pacific CEED. Pacific CEED is a cancer research based program that focuses on islands in the pacific. At Pacific CEED we conduct research and compile resource documents for the Pacific CEED website. This website is to inform the community about cancer in the pacific. Pacific CEED partners with others in the Pacific to work on controlling cancer and its risk factors.
From our internship, we attained the whole spectrum of the medical field from research to patient care and community outreach.
Both students want to incorporate other method either if it’s cultural or modern to our medical practices. Our goal in this internship is to learn as much as we can about the medical field and maybe get a direction we would like to take in our future.