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Feature Articles:
FEMAP's
Ciudad Juárez Hospital Provides Learning Opportunities for U.S. Medical
Students
by Vanessa Johnson, FEMAP Foundation
Executive Director
FEMAP's Hospital de la Familia in Ciudad Juárez has a long history of providing
learning opportunities for students and volunteers alike. For several years now,
the hospital has been working in cooperation with the Belize Medical Center in
Belize City as a teaching hospital.
In June, I interviewed Katie Kruschel and Ben Kamali, two medical students who
had just finished working at the Hospital de la Familia for eight weeks. Part of
the curriculum of their school, called clinical rotations, requires that all students
spend the last three trimesters in Juarez. Generally, since these students are not
fluent in Spanish, they look for a doctor who speaks English to shadow for the
duration of their stay. Continued . . .
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