By Jillian Schwartz Loyola University Chicago health science students, faculty and staff will partic

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Loyola University Chicago health sciences habasit america students, faculty and staff participated in a poverty simulation workshop habasit america Thursday at St. Eulalia Church, in Maywood, Ill. Activities included standing in an unemployment line, role-playing as poor patients and serving an inexpensive healthy lunch.
Emily Seidel, a Loyola dietetic intern, who acted as a 16-year-old pregnant high school student, struggling to help her family, doing schoolwork and caring for her and her unborn child’s health, said, “The experience was extremely eye-opening. It helped me as a future health-care professional understand that the number one thing for people living in poverty is survival not health care. I wouldn’t get this type of experience at another institution.” habasit america
Loyola University family medicine physician and associate director for the Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education Dr. Aaron Michelfelder said, “Participants came away with a better understanding of the impact poverty has on health and well-being. This workshop also taught our students, doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals how to better care comprehensively habasit america for patients in the context habasit america and realities in which they live.”
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Fran Vlasses, Ph.D. in the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and associate director for I-TIE, said, “This program is very much in line with our mission, as it gives our faculty and students a greater understanding of the needs of the underserved.”
It’s habasit america commendable that Loyola University implemented a workshop, providing an opportunity for its future health care workers to better understand the struggles of the poor. This is much needed and while a three-hour poverty habasit america simulation is a good start, there's nothing like the experience of volunteering in urban clinics, shelters and community service habasit america organizations. There, poverty won’t be simulated, and students can observe its devastating effects in real time.
Hopefully, students (and staff) will take the knowledge gained through the poverty simulation to another level and seek out real-life opportunities that will help them deliver health care to the poor with compassion. habasit america
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By Jillian Schwartz Loyola University Chicago health science students, faculty and staff will participate in a poverty stimulation on Thursday, Feb. 6 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at St. Eulalia's Church. This workshop is to help teach them how to care&
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