{"id":934,"date":"2015-03-19T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/globalhealth\/?p=934"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:58:21","slug":"passion-for-improving-lives-drives-deep-rooted-alliance-between-geisel-and-american-indian-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/2015\/03\/19\/passion-for-improving-lives-drives-deep-rooted-alliance-between-geisel-and-american-indian-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership with American Indian Communities Offers Valuable Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Larry Di Giovanni<\/em><\/p>\n

Note: This is the first of a four-part series examining the Geisel School of Medicine\u2019s long-standing work in primary care with American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Read parts\u00a0two<\/a>,\u00a0three,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0four<\/a>\u00a0for more.
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Geisel medical student Amy Chabitnoy recruits a future physician at a Bois Forte elementary school during the 2013 Minnesota Indian Health alternative spring break program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From New England to Alaska, the impact of Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine within American Indian and Alaskan Native populations, rural and urban, is strong and expanding.<\/p>\n

The reasons are many: compassionate students with a desire to serve the underserved; new opportunities for clinical teaching in family medicine, which means more mentors and student experiences in Native American communities; primary care physicians who step forward to serve as role models; and diverse primary care clerkships and residencies that reach into American Indian\/Alaskan Native country. In addition, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Health Service and Dartmouth, signed in 2012, is strengthening opportunities for collaboration.<\/p>\n

Just as important has been Dartmouth College\u2019s unwavering, long-standing commitment. Since 1769 as part of its founding charter, Dartmouth has been engaged in the education of Native Americans. Over the past few decades, that commitment has created a range of medical education experiences that introduce students to these communities and their health care needs, ultimately leading to improved health care delivery for Native Americans.<\/p>\n

Just one such \u201cincubator\u201d program started by Shawn O\u2019Leary, Geisel\u2019s director of multicultural affairs, has grown in impact and importance. Each March since 2010, a new group of first-year medical students has accompanied O\u2019Leary to northern Minnesota for the Geisel-Indian Health Service alternative spring break serving five bands of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here...<\/a><\/p>\n

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Working with American Indian communities in Minnesota, the Geisel’s alternative spring break program offers valuable primary care experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","author-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}