Open AccessEye-Opening Medical Missions
Author(s) -
Ethan Waisberg
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of medical students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2076-6327
DOI - 10.5195/ijms.2022.1152
Subject(s) - specialty , trips architecture , medical education , medical school , medicine , psychology , family medicine , engineering , transport engineering
Before choosing a specialty, medical students should obtain clinical exposure to that area. But how can a medical student do that, when clinical placements are years away, at the end of medical education? This article details a personal story about an experience on a medical mission trip and explains how these trips can benefit underserved populations, and medical students by gaining early clinical exposure.