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Four students from the University
of Western Ontario's Schulich School
of Medicine spent four days at health
care facilities in Huron East last
week, shadowing doctors and nurses
while learning about patient -care in
rural communities.
Sunny Sheshgiri, 24, Salina Juma,
Stephen Choy and Julie Huang, all
23, visited the Seaforth Community
Hospital and the Brussels Medical
Dental Building from June 1-4, see-
ing first-hand the unique relation-
ship rural doctors share with their
patients.
"That was one thing that really
stuck out," said Huang, after spend-
ing time shadowing doctors in the
hospital ER and nurses at the Brus-
sels clinic. "The doctors know the pa-
tients and their
families so well
and it's a really
great relation-
ship that you
might not see in
larger centres."
Choy says the
differences he's
seen between
rural and ur-
ban healthcare
facilities go be-
yond the clod, '-
patient relatic
ship.
"Doctors really
have to do it all
up here," he says.
"For example,
we saw Dr. Caro -
lin Shepherd _
first day in 1
ER and then s e
was running the
clinic a few days
later. So there is
a lot of variety 1
find."
Choy says the
students also had
the opportunity
to shadow nurse
practitioners
Cate Verberne
and Janet Obre
as they saw pa-
tients with acute
conditions.
"Their role is
slightly different
from a doctor but
equally impor-
tant," Chry says.
Juma says she
found rural med-
ical professionals
to be more laid
back in their ap-
proach to work.
"When we've
followed doctors
in London, it's a
lot more stress -
ful, it feels," she said. "It's a lot busi-
er and they're all focused on one area
rather than getting to do such a wide
spectrum."
Some of the highlights for the stu-
dents during their week in Huron.
East included casting a patient, be-
ing allowed to reference patient his-
tories on their own and speaking to
high sehool- students at St. Anne's
Secondary School in Clinton.
"They wanted to hear all our gross
stories and the things we've seen in'
the ER and also in anatomy labs, so
they got excited about that," Juma
says.
Sheshgiri says some of the high
school students had the opportunity
to gain some exposure into health
care professions during the U of W's
Medquest program last summer.
"The students were very recep-
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Lice," Sheshgiri says. "We had quite
a few people who were interested in
the program." ,
,Back at the hospital, the four stu-
clouts were able to learn even during
some downtime in the ER.
"One of the doctors let us try out
the' equipment and practice do-
ing IVs and casting on each other,"
Huang says.
The four medical school students
have recently completed their first
year of schooling and a couple of
them plan on following up with their
studies over the
summer.
This week,
Juma is attend-
ing the Rural
Ontario Medi-
cal program in
Mount Forest for
Four students from London's Schulich School of Medicine
who job shadowed doctors and nurses in Seaforth last week
include in the front row, Sunny Sheshgiri, Julie Huang, Ste-
phen Choy and Salina Juma. Pictured behind them are nurse
Mary Coyne, Dr. Heather Percival, Grace Dolmage, hospital
administrative assistant, and nurse Karen Daigliesh.
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Huang says that at this point, she
is still undecided about which par-
ticular path to pursue in the field of
medicine. -
"We're open to anything," she says.
Hospital administrative assistant
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dents to keep Seaforth in mind as
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"Remember us guys," she said, "In
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