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Mt. Sinai University, Ichan School of Medicine- Medical Students Making Impacts-Border Service Learning Tours

SEAHEC Acknowledged in Annals of Global Health

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2019 Mt. Sinai Tour

The recent publication, entitled “Impact of a Short-Term Domestic Service-Learning Program on Medical Student Education,” is an examination of journals students used to document their learning experiences during the annual spring trip to Nogales. According to the study, the role of short-term, domestic community learning experiences can be an important component of a student’s medical education, since it lowers financial and logistical barriers to acquiring first-hand community service experience that can impact students’ perspectives, cultural competence and career choices. Continue reading

The Twitch of Nogales: How a Phobia Taught Me Empathy

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2019 Mt. Sinai Watman

By Deborah Watman, MPH Student in the Biostatistics Track, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Reposted from The Scoop: Spring 2019-Issue 12

“That is what has erected the walls, the long lines at border control – fear is what perpetuates this cycle of nightmares. If you are afraid, you create walls that functionally displace your own fear and transport it to those who are desperate to leave their own countries, and are now terrified.”

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