Health Students' Action: February 2009

Friday, February 20, 2009

Student Integration Program (SIP)

We provide alternative summer and semestral break activity - the students' community integration program. Members and participants experience rural life, meet new friends and provide check-up services and health education to farmers and fisherfolks in chosen rural communities.

Community Services

We bring the students where their skills and knowledge are most needed - in underserved rural and urban communities. Students hone their skills and learn the people's situation and way of life while providing needed services to the people.

Community services include medical, surgical and dental missions, disaster and relief missions and "Klinikang Bayan".

Our Principles

Health Students' Action believes that education should be relevant. Health science students should be trained and developed for true service to the Filipino people. However, aside from being expensive and based on a western curriculum, our education is geared towards a hospital-based, doctor-dependent, urban-centered health service. It is not attuned to the actual health situation of the Filipino people.

Health Students' Action heeds the call for true service and action.

We are concerned in promoting and defending our legitimate rights and welfare. As students, we have the enthusiasm and the zest in making good our studies and in helping solve the problems we encounter in school.

We are concerned in developing ourselves as health care providers. As future health professionals, we aspire to be of true service by offering our knowledge and skills in the interest of our people, including the most deprived and needy segment of our society.

We are catalysts for meaningful social change. As members of society, we hope for a better future for ourselves and for our countrymen. We desire the economic improvement of our people because this is a determinant in the health condition of our people. As it is now, the economy is deteriorating which puts the life and health of Filipinos, especially the majority who are poor, at risk.

Programs and Activities

Training and Education

Health Skills Training (HST):

short courses on alternative health skills such as herbal medicine and acupuncture, first-aid

Leadership Training Seminars (LTS):

2-day seminar aimed at honing leadership skills among students and in helping them prepare student programs and activities

Focused Group Discussions & Fora:

Diagnosis of Health Science Education, The State of the Nation’s Health Rational Drug Use Others, upon request

Students Integration Program (SIP):

a three to five-day community integration aimed at increasing the level of awareness of health students to socio-economic realities

Services

Medical and dental missions Disaster and relief missions, Klinikang Bayan

Linkages and Alliances

Community service organizations, Student councils, International student organizations

Friday, February 20, 2009

Student Integration Program (SIP)

Community Services

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