{"id":338,"date":"2016-03-18T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-03-18T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:18:11","slug":"mathews-neme-travel-to-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/2016\/03\/18\/mathews-neme-travel-to-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathews, Neme Travel to Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Family Medicine Assistant Professor, Dr. Monty Mathews and house officer II, Dr. Jamil Neme are preparing for a week long trip to Jamaica, but it&#8217;s hardly a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Drs. Mathews and Jamil, along with about 20 medical students, three pharmacy students, and two physical therapy students, are serving at a church-based medical clinic in an underserved area.<\/p>\n<p>While in Falmouth, Jamaica, they will see up to 400 patients, providing primary care to a population that often does not have access to healthcare. Working on this\u00a0medical mission often means going\u00a0without running water, air conditioning, or even electricity while supplying their own equipment and medication.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mathews believes the experience for\u00a0M1s and M2s is invaluable. &#8220;They&#8217;re learning to interview and perform physicals during the trip. It is often their first concentrated time to practice those skills on real patients,&#8221; Mathews said.<\/p>\n<p>This is Dr. Mathew&#8217;s fourteenth year traveling to Jamaica. The group leaves on March 20th and returns March 26th.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/voicedwhispering.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"xkBCxrF arPugo B smSv mD uFgJs\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Medicine Assistant Professor, Dr. Monty Mathews and house officer II, Dr. Jamil Neme are preparing for a week long trip to Jamaica, but it&#8217;s hardly a vacation. Drs. Mathews and Jamil, along with about 20 medical students, three pharmacy students, and two physical therapy students, are serving at a church-based medical clinic in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,14,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clinic","category-family-medicine","category-medical-students","category-patient-care","category-residency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}