Tijuana — To coincide with the meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University, UCSD said it will open a new student-run health clinic in Tijuana.
Medical students from both the U.S. and Mexico will be involved.
UCSD medical students came up with the idea of the Tijuana clinic. School faculty will make the clinic part of new course. Students will learn about
the challenges of providing care in Tijuana as they work alongside their Mexican counterparts.
Steffanie Strathdee is chief of UCSD's division of global public health. She said it's important for medical students to work with under-served
populations.
"But it's even more important for them to get outside of their own communities, and to experience another culture," Strathdee emphasized. "And this
gives us the opportunity to do both."
The clinic is scheduled to open at the end of April. It will operate on Saturdays in a building on the periphery of Tijuana's red light district.DENNIS - 4-3-2011 at 02:29 PM
So....if you want to be a lab rat, you know where to go. Why no mention of who is overseeing these students?
This plan is stillborn.encanto - 4-3-2011 at 03:38 PM
This plan is not stillborn!!! UC students are already in Mexico.
The Palomar Chapter of the Flying Samaritans has been overseeing operations of a number of UC STUDENT-led clinics dating back 9 or 10 years.
Chipoltepec, about 8 miles south of Ensenada, has been holding monthly pediatric and medical clinics with volunteer American MD's and pre-med UCSD
students for that many years.
In Testerazo, the UCI pre-med students work at similar pediatric and medical clinics on the same day of the month. In addition, more clinics are
simutaneously run by UCI medical students at Valle Redondo, by UC Fullerton and UC Riverside students in El Hongo. Another student clinic is on hold,
but met in Erendira for a good while.
Besides these students' clinics, an opthalmology/optometry clinic in Tecate brings cataract and other eye surgeries to people from a wide range of
northern Baja. ALL SERVICES OF THE THE FLYING SAMARITANS ARE FREE AND VOLUNTEERED.
Please support those who get out and help others rather than shoot them down.
[Edited on 4-3-2011 by encanto]
Yes, Encanto
Gypsy Jan - 4-3-2011 at 05:11 PM
What you said.woody with a view - 4-3-2011 at 05:21 PM
c'mon Dennis!
you know there is no need in the US so "they" gotta spend the revenue where it is needed......
"they" got us right where they want us.....bent over.BajaBlanca - 4-5-2011 at 04:32 PM
welcome to Baja Nomads, Encanto.
I think the whole world is in need of special projects like the UC is doing - congrats on a good cause.encanto - 4-6-2011 at 03:50 PM
Thanks Jan and Blanca for seeing the good side. The El Testerazo clinic has actually been going for around 30 years.
We visit or even live in a foreign country, abundant with hospitable though mostly poor people who tend to help us out without hesitation! The
Mexicans are not subhuman labrats and volunteers can donate or spend money anywhere they choose. The people of Baja deserve our care.Bajahowodd - 4-6-2011 at 04:09 PM
So, let me get this right. The California budget is upside down by tens of billions of dollars, UC classes are being eliminated. Enrollment is being
cut. Let's just say that the Clinton Global Initiatve is funding this. Times change. As much as Willy wants to burnish his legacy, it almost seems to
me that his initiative should stay closer to home as the tea party gang is looking to cut the safety net for millions of children and seniors.
No irony in the idea that UC students funding by the CGI will treat deserving poor SOB, but the deserving poor NOB are facing who knows what. Maybe
nada.Woooosh - 4-6-2011 at 04:16 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by BajaBlanca
welcome to Baja Nomads, Encanto.
I think the whole world is in need of special projects like the UC is doing - congrats on a good cause.
Mexican doctors don't spend nearly the time in the medical eduction system these US Students will spend. I'm not saying they are already as qualified
as Mexican doctors. I'm also not saying they have a lot to learn from them either. They will get hands-on patient experience in Mexico that the US
hospital lawyers would never allow. The patients and students will benefit imo.wilderone - 4-7-2011 at 07:54 AM
"it's important for medical students to work with under-served populations."
We've got plenty of under-served populations here in San Diego. Cross-culture experience? Got that too - we got Somalies, Mexicans and Vietnamese.
I don't know what they're trying to achieve in TJ that they can't get locally. Sick people need the same care regardless of their citizenship. This
really chafes after experiencing county medical clinic care here in San Diego.Vince - 4-7-2011 at 09:56 AM
When I was a resident physician in the '60's (UCSD) I worked at a clinic in Tijuana ran by the Mexican American Neighbor Organization (MANO). The
purpose was to take care of the people in a local colonia until they got their own local doctors. After a few years, some new Mexican doctors came in
there and took it over. That was the ideal situation, let them take over, just give them a start.
