Trip to the Delices Health Clinic and Primary School.

Hello everyone,

So today we visited the Delices Health Clinic as well as the Primary School (meaning grades 1-6). There we got to educate patients on a variety of topics. (Diabetes, Hypertension, Cholesterol, Skin Infections, BPH). Personally I got the opportunity to discuss at length to a couple individuals about cholesterol; what it is, how to manage it, what the numbers mean, and how is it treated. Whats great is that the people here are so curious about the various disease states, and have many different questions to ask. Despite being more geared toward cholesterol it is not uncommon for me to talk about the other disease states that the other students are focused on, making this a great learning experience.

The second part of the day consisted of visiting the Delices primary school. There we got to donate some school supplies/books for the library, and interact with the children at the school. This is most likely one of my favorite parts of the rotation as we get to interact and answer questions from all these kids are as curious about our lives in the states as we are of their lives here. We also got to discuss pharmacy in general, what it takes to be a pharmacist, the importance of studying, and medication safety. We then go into a question/answer session where the kids will ask us something, and vise versa. Its a lot of fun, a great experience, and  you feel really good about yourself when your finished.

- Tyler