Kenneth Iserson

The Global Healthcare Volunteer's Handbook: What You Need to Know Before You Go (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking about volunteering with a healthcare team in a less-developed country? The need for global healthcare volunteers is critical. Yet, many healthcare professionals and students find the path to volunteering their services to be confusing and fraught with frustration. This book, based on Dr. Iserson's experiences teaching and practicing medicine on all seven continents, provides the nuts-and-bolts details necessary to ensure a successful international experience. Topics include finding the right organization; licensing & credentialing; travel documents, money, & customs regulations; food & living conditions; personal health & safety; international communication; packing; and using interpreters―all tailored for healthcare professionals and students. It also includes an extensive list of NGOs and other groups whose goals are to improve global medical care that accept volunteers. Perhaps most valuable, Dr. Iserson addresses the professional challenges volunteers may face when working in developing countries, illustrated by anecdotes from around the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kenneth Iserson
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781883620394
• Artikelnr.: 69870672

Autorenporträt

Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., MBA, FACEP, FAAEM, is Professor Emeritus of Emergency Medicine at The University of Arizona, Medical Director (Emeritus) of the Southern Arizona Rescue Association (search & rescue), a Supervisory Physician with Arizona's Disaster Medical Assistance Team (AZ-1), and a member of the American Red Cross disaster response team.
The author of hundreds of scientific articles on emergency medicine and biomedical ethics, he has also authored numerous books. In October 2011, McGraw-Hill will publish his latest book, Improvised Medicine: Professional Treatment with Scarce Resources.
Dr. Iserson now limits his medical practice to global and disaster medicine. In the past few years, he has practiced or taught on all seven continents, including 6 months as Lead Physician for the US Antarctic Program, and work with NGOs in rural areas of Central and South America, Zambia, Bhutan, and Ghana. He also runs the www.REEME.arizona.edu Project that freely distributes more than 700 Spanish-language PowerPoint presentations on Emergency Medicine.