Partnering with Communities to Bring Primary Health Care to the Peripheries

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One cannot simply teach Primary health care to medical students. The students have to learn it by doing. Every year I handle the Primary Health care subject/discussion with the third year medical students. And of course after discussing the theories, they get to immerse themselves with their chosen partner communities to see how they can bring Primary health care to them. So, every where, the third year medical students of the University of Saint La Salle would brainstorm projects that they can collaborate with their partner communities that not only would provide them the experience that would help them understand Primary health care but will actually bring PHC to their partner communities. They are expected to collaborate, work with all kinds of stakeholders, be conscious of different factors that need to be addressed in order to solve or confront a medical problem, and engage the community helping them realize their own empowerment.

Instead of a written monthly progress report, they were asked to produce vlogs instead. Sharing the vlog channels of the groups and their final video summary.

Project Aspire
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Project KABO
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Project aLICE
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Project BREATHE
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Project AEDES
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Project HEENTO
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The medical students will be discussing their experiences in a tweet chat this Saturday May 30, 2020 using the following hashtag at 8pm Manila time. Please join us or you can read the live tweet feed here. 



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