Collaborators

For Potential Collaborator Organizations

Tell us who you are. Please email to international@apamsa.org with the following information.

Is there a way for APAMSA members to be integrated into any of your pre-existing medical missions in a meaningful way? Would your organization be interested in some sort of collaboration with APAMSA?
If you have any advice or references to other organizations or potential advisors we can talk to, we’d be really happy and grateful! Please let us know.
We are open to anything else you’d like to share with us too.

Our Collaborators

Viet Nam Medical Assistance Program (VNMAP)

http://www1.vnmap.org/

Â“VNMAP’s mission is to address the health care disparity of the poor in Viet Nam while promoting awareness the health care need of the poor through collaborative efforts, cooperation, and education. Improvement of the health care for the poor involves with medical assistance, health education, and health survey assessment. To encourage more participation in the effort of working toward addressing the issue of inadequate health care, VNMAP is dedicated to educate health professionals, medical students, volunteers, and members about the health status of different region in Viet Nam.” (Courtesy of VNMAP)

VNMAP will save 2 seats in its medical mission team for APAMSA members.
Applications for the 2009 medical mission are closed at this time. We will updateÂ this information as soon as details for upcoming missions are available.

Alliance for Smiles

http://www.allianceforsmiles.org/

“To repair children’s broken smiles, establish cleft treatment centers, and foster ancillary humanitarian projects in under-served areas of world through international collaboration among medical and non-medical volunteers and corporate and individual sponsors. Alliance for Smiles organizes and sends surgical teams to sites for two week missions. A surgical team is comprised of approximately 20 volunteer plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, nurses and dentists. They are supported by 10 non-medical volunteers. During a mission, 80 to 120 underserved children receive surgery for cleft lip & palate anomalies. The AFS team works side-by-side with local medical practitioners to exchange ideas on proper medical techniques and procedures, as well as provide follow-up care. Learn more about volunteering for a mission.Â”

Alliance for Smiles needs a few volunteer interpreters who are fluent Mandarin speakers for the upcoming medical missions listed above. Volunteers will be able to be in the operating room for all procedures. This is a wonderful opportunity for students, particularly those interested in surgery, pediatrics, and anesthesiology. If interested, please find application forms here: http://www.allianceforsmiles.org/volunteer_mission.php

Project Vietnam

http://www.pvnf.org/default.aspx?LangID=1&tabId=103

“Project Vietnam’s mission is to provide healthcare assistance to children at-risk, and poor rural communities in Vietnam, and medical training to health professionals in Vietnam. The ultimate goal is to improve health services for children. Current ongoing programs consist of improvement of healthcare for newborn and pediatric emergency services, promoting sustainable standards for Infection Control, and the development of services for children with special healthcare needs Project Vietnam has worked at 20 sites in Vietnam, trained a total of 40 provinces, and initiated interventions which have resulted in significant reduction in child mortality/morbidity and improved rural healthcare. Project Vietnam collaborates with other NGOs and educational institutions and actively seeks partnerships to accomplish its goals for empowerment of the local healthcare professionals and health services for the most vulnerable populations.”

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