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Overview
Overview
The Engineering World Health Summer and January Institutes send students and young professionals in engineering and science to developing countries including Nicaragua, Rwanda, Tanzania, Cambodia, Nepal, and Guatemala, where their skills are put to use repairing medical equipment that saves patients lives. It is the rare opportunity for participants to make an immediate impact.
In the Summer Institute, students receive training and hands-on experience working in hospitals and clinics with very few resources. Students are immersed in a different culture, living with local families, working alongside doctors and nurses, and learning a new language. For many, its the beginning of a long-term commitment to helping vulnerable patients and communities in the developing world.
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EWH SI Participants in Tanzania built a PET cart for a patient at the hospital where they were volunteering as medical equipment technicians.
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The technical training includes field visits to local hospitals with your EWH professor. Here, our professor explains an autoclave with a circuit diagram diagram drawn in the dirt!
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This participant in Tanzania repaired a lab centrifuge. Centrifuges are among the most common devices that participants work on.
Although we focus on the devices, some SI participants have the opportunity to connect with patients directly. This participant in Nicaragua spent a lot of time working with neonatal equipment.
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Participants on the EWH Summer Institute work hands-on with medical devices, restoring them to service in local hospitals. Participants gain valuable technical skills through the program.
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