DIVERSITY WEEK 2010
February 22-25 | Tamkin Hall | 12-1pm | Free Lunch
2/22 - Monday - Traditional Chinese Medicine for the 21st Century
Shin Lin, Ph.D.
Come learn more about Eastern Medicine and the diversity of populations who use it. Dr. Lin will also address how it is used by underserved populations as an alternative to costly healthcare.
2/23 - Tuesday - Asian Pacific American Mental Health: Culturally Competent Practice
Jonathan Flojo, Ph.D. & Yuli Liu, Ph.D., UC Irvine Counseling Center
Several barriers and challenges exist in addressing mental health issues within the Asian Pacific American communities. We will discuss cultural variations in expressing distress, challenges to accessing care, and strategies for identifying mental health needs.
2/24 - Wednesday - Medical Interpreters
Desiree Lie, MD, Guadalupe Correa, Phuong Tran
Dr. Lie will present on the effective use of medical interpreters, consequences of using family members/children as interpreters, time management, maintaining eye contact, use of interpreters via phone, etc. Guadalupe Correa and Phuong Tran will share their experiences working as a medical interpreter in Spanish-speaking and Vietnamese-speaking populations.
2/25 - Thursday - Native American Health
Michelle Allen, Ph.D.
Dr. Allen will talk about Native American health disparities, including herbal remedies and spiritual practices/healing.
6pm - CF Diversity Week Tutorial
This will be a great way to practice what we have learned and really put a face to the issues that were presented throughout the week. It will be a unique experience unlike what we will ever get in our regular CF sessions.
Duroville Health Project
"Bringing healing to Duroville" - L.A. Times
The Office of Diversity and Community Engagement is currently supporting student volunteer efforts to assess health and essential community needs. Additional volunteers are not needed at this stage, but if you or your organization can commit resources to this project, it would certainly help with planning.
"Duroville is a one of the largest and poorest trailer parks on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Reservation near Coachella, California. Residents are almost entirely Latino seasonal and migrant workers and their families. The population fluctuates from 4,000 to 6,000 people and includes one of the largest concentrations of Purépecha Indians in the United States."
- Alberto Manetta, MD, Director of UCI School of Medicine Office of Diversity and Community Engagement
"Palm Springs lounges on one side of the Coachella Valley. Here, on the other side, agriculture rules: fields of improbable green disrupt the desert brown, date trees reach for the sky, and citrus groves offer leaves still tinged by last winter’s catastrophic frost. Cheap labor is needed for crops to grow and for money to be harvested. But cheap labor needs cheap housing, and that is in short supply here, especially after a county crackdown several years ago that closed some dangerous and substandard trailer parks catering to migrant workers."
- Dan Barry, NY Times
"Manetta wanted his medical students to see poverty up close, to understand that being a doctor carries responsibilities and rewards beyond money and status. They didn't need to travel to the developing world to experience it. In many respects they were already there... The medical team's first priority may be the toughest: to assess the health and living conditions of every person in the park. To get help with the large task, they've been training residents to do surveys."
- David Kelly, LA Times
If you have resources to share, contact medical student project coordinator Anna Fellmann
For more information, visit the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement
CampMed
CampMed at UCI was founded in 1997 by UC Irvine undergraduate and medical students and has reached out to over 740 high school students from Orange and Los Angeles Counties. The program targets high school students who demonstrate academic promise, and who are interested in pursuing health and science careers, but do not have the resources to develop their potential. CampMed strives to demonstrate to these students that they are smart, capable, and have the ability to succeed academically. The camp is designed to expose students to the various health science professions, provide them with information regarding higher education in the health sciences, build their self-esteem, provide a network of like-minded students for motivation, provide them with a health science mentor following the camp, and assist them in developing basic medical skills.
Every year numerous LMSA medical students, postbaccalaureate and undergraduate students serve as counselors or volunteers during CampMed. LMSA also provides two $500 dollar scholarships to two CampMed high school campers during the weekend event. The Super Mario scholarship is named after a former LMSA UCI member who co-founded CampMed and various other community service programs at UCI.
