Postcards from Olintepeque
So here I am all alone at the residence in Quetzaltenango, while the clinical crew is doing a second day in Olintepeque. Yesterday, our first day, was a grand success, with us seeing about 100 patients –...
Author: ChichiMax
UTMB Clinical Rotation: Week 1 Update
Well, as is usually the case with trips to Guatemala, my blogging has not kept up with our experiences on this trip. There’s really been a lot to talk about, but we’ve been very busy,...
New UTMB PA school Clinical Rotation Begins
Yesterday Chelsea and Taylor arrived in Chichicastenango with their husbands, Carter and Nick, from a long weekend break in Antigua. After taking the opportunity to explore the Sunday market for a few hours, we...
Best Birthday Present Ever
Finding this on Facebook was probably the best birthday present I ever received, as I wrote in June 2015 on the Facebook post. I remain truly thankful to my friends in Guatemala for producing this lovely...
The Xela Clinics
What I refer to in the title as the “Xela” clinics didn’t take place in Quetzaltenango – which is the actual name of Guatemala’s second largest city that most Guatemalans call Xela (Shay-lah). Rather,...
The Jan 2016 Clinical Rotation: Chichi and Lake Atitlan, Jan 9-20
The January University of Texas Medical Branch Physician Assistant School clinical rotation turned out to be a great success at various levels, as the three students and their mentors treated hundreds of patients over the course...
Better Late than Never: the January 2016 Rotation for UTMB Physician Assistant Students
IT’S ALREADY TWO MONTHS since the end of the last Physicians Assistant Student Rotation in Guatemala that CCD facilitated in January. But now, as the next clinical rotation comes ever nearer, I can no longer...
Notes from the Journey
Welcome to the page I loosely label as “Consultants for Community Development” (CCD). I say ‘loosely’ because the plan at this point is to throw anything onto this page that has anything to do...
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