Category Archives: Medical Training & Education
12.30.10 Provide your year-end gift to Project Medishare to inspire hope in Haiti
When Wilfred Messine was fitted with his prosthetic limb in April, he immediately began running and kicking a soccer ball which inspired other amputee patients. Today Wilfred is Project Medishare’s prosthetic technician in training, and he continues to inspire others
12.22.10 More people in Haiti have access to healthcare this holiday season thanks to Project Medishare supporters
By Jennifer Browning You may have remembered reading on the Project Medishare Blog about how 9-month old Julisa was toddling across her house and stumbled into a pot of boiling water causing serious burns on her right arm and left
10.26.10 Community health agents meet with Project Medishare medical staff to further discuss cholera prevention and education campaign
By Jennifer Browning Forty community health agents gathered at the Project Medishare office in Thomonde today to meet with Country Director Marie Chery, Dr. Serge Pintro, Zanmi Lasante doctors and Project Medishare medical staff. After the meeting the staff handed
10.21.10 Pediatric neurosurgery team provides assessments for children with hydrocephalus
By Jennifer Browning Last weekend Dr. Keith Rich, a neurosurgeon from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, arrived at Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare (HBMPM) to conduct a medical assessment of children who are suffering from hydrocephalus. Dr.
9.15.10 Volunteers mentor Haitian nurses in spinal cord patient care
By Jennifer Browning At Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare (HBMPM) motivated volunteers to work side by side as mentors to their Haitian colleagues in medicine, nursing and allied health professionals, in the traditional Project Medishare model of “Train the Trainer.”
8.24.10 Florida’s U.S. Senator Bill Nelson fights for funding for Haiti’s only critical care hospital
By Jennifer Browning U.S. Senator Bill Nelson vowed, during a visit to the Miami’s Ryder Trauma Center last week, to continue his efforts to secure funds for the Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare, a critical care and rehabilitation hospital, operated by
8.19.10 Update for medical professionals wishing to volunteer at Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare
By Jennifer Browning While Haiti’s only critical and trauma care facility, Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare, is now operating with a predominantly Haitian staff, we are still accommodating up to 43 volunteers each week. Starting in October, volunteers are required
7.12.10 Six months after the quake: Project Medishare continues mission to empower Haitian medical professionals to improve access to healthcare
By Jennifer Browning Six months ago, Project Medishare volunteer doctors and nurses in collaboration with the University of Miami Global Institute, rushed to the aid of those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Since January, Project Medishare have treated
7.9.10 Providing an opportunity to learn as well as heal
By Jennifer Browning “Dousma madame, dousma,..” Sammie Jean Charles tells a patient to go slowly as she moves her leg backwards and starts to feel the resistance from the band. Sammie, a physical therapy tech in training, is working with
