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The Long Arm of Anatomy Education Outreach Programs: From NYC to Tanzania and Brasil
Author(s) -
Marquez Samuel,
Mtui Estomih,
Curcio Daniella F,
Laitman Jeffrey T
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.441.5
Subject(s) - outreach , tanzania , disadvantaged , medical education , enthusiasm , population , medicine , library science , political science , psychology , sociology , socioeconomics , law , social psychology , environmental health , computer science
Anatomy education outreach programs have been the focus of three directors of anatomy from different medical institutions who together have collaborated locally, and have continued their work individually, to target underrepresented population groups from NYC to Tanzania and Brasil. Márquez of Downstate created Anatomy Education Day (AED), a powerful education outreach program that centers on the exposure of underrepresented youth to the Allied Health Sciences as a means of increasing diversity in medicine and related healthcare fields. Mtui of Weill Cornell Medicine returns yearly to his native country of Tanzania performing lectures and dissection demonstrations to stimulate the young minds of first‐ and second‐year medical students. His motivation can be linked to when he grew up in the rural Marangu‐Kilimanjaro Tanzania, when a doctor came to visit to talk about health care practices and how these behaviors actually helped the people of this settlement. That education outreach visit sparked an interest in him that eventually took him to UPenn, Galway in the Republic of Ireland and ending at Cornell where he is the Professor and Chief of the Division of Anatomy. Laitman and Curcio of Mount Sinai have been building bridges between Brasil and the US in anatomical education focusing on students who although disadvantaged inresources more than compensates for it with their enthusiasm, dedication, and strong work ethic. Curcio, a native of São Paulo, has witnessed first hand the impact the outreach has had not only on her countrymen but also on her ‐ reinvigorating and motivating her in bridging the gap between the immediate needs of students and easy access to educational resources. The different education outreach approaches employed by the authors are designed to maximize exposure to a range of healthcare pathways, in a concerted effort to inspire and prepare students to pursue careers in medicine and medical research. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .