The Clinic Abroad Program Welcome

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The Clinic Abroad ProgramWelcome!
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February 2007 Trip Locations
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Please Sign In
Please DOUBLE CHECK your name to assure that it
is your FULL LEGAL NAME as shown or will be shown
on your passport.
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A Few Announcements

• Dont forget the meeting tomorrow at 345-515.
  You are expected to stay for the entire meeting.
  
• Immediately following tomorrows meeting the post
  office will be in the Student Union for passport
  applications.
  
• Your financial aid eligibility has been
  confirmed. Lori Curry will be available tomorrow
  at the meeting for questions regarding this.
  
• Attendance is MANDATORY for all CAP meetings.

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Individual Trip Meeting Times

• PCCW and PCCF - TBA
• Bolivia   Tuesdays 1205  P204          
• Morocco Wednesdays 1205  W210          
• Bequia    Thursdays 920  W216   
• Brazil   Thursdays 1205  W210
               
  
• Madagascar Fridays 100  P202

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Our Mission

• To engage you in a
• 1. A unique clinical experience
• 2. An expanded educational experience
• 3. Cultural opportunity
• And to
• 4. Promote the Chiropractic profession
• 5. Promote Palmer College
• of Chiropractic

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Program Goals and Objectives

• Please take the time to review program goals and
  objectives in the handbook on your own.

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Your Responsibility

• READ THE HANDBOOK!
• Bring it to all meetings.
• Stay informed via group meetings and the Clinic
  Abroad (CAP) web site.
  
• Complete all assignments.
• Enjoy the process!

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Submitted Materials

• We love your pictures!
• We love your words!
• The Clinic Abroad Office reserves the right to
  use or display any written or photographic
  materials received from trip participants. If a
  participant does not wish to have their materials
  available for future use, they must plainly
  indicate this on the material.

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Student Tuition and Cost

• Round-trip airfare
• Ground transportation
• Accommodations
• Faculty and staff supervisors/coordinators
• Meals Either by pre-paying or a meal budget
  reimbursed to the student prior to departure.
  
• Clinic Abroad 3-ring binder for clinic records
• Clinic supplies
• Orientation lectures and materials
• Site visits, lectures, discussions

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Student Tuition and Cost continued

• Clinic Abroad official shirt
• Passport
• VISA (where necessary)
• Mandatory Health and Travel Insurance
• Not included Recreational excursions, all
  personal expenses, accommodations if electing to
  stay in the country (or another country) after
  the Clinic Abroad experience has ended.

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Cost contd

• Your money does not buy you credits!
• Remember, the CAP does not guarantee any amount
  of adjustment or physical exam credits.
  

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The Itinerary

• Deviation from the trip itinerary is strictly
  forbidden
  
• Going on a personal vacation immediately after a
  trip is strongly discouraged. Students are
  expected to be back for classes on the first day
  of the trimester.
• Students traveling after the itinerary is
  completed are doing so at their own personal time
  expense. This not considered part of the
  Clinic Abroad Program. It is personal vacation
  time. During personal vacation time, health and
  liability insurance coverage provided by Palmer
  College may not be in effect.
• Please review the insurance policy closely or
  contact the Clinic Abroad Program for details.
  

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Trip Cancellation

• Palmer College of Chiropractic reserves the right
  to cancel and/or reschedule any Clinic Abroad
  Program trip due to political, health, or other
  conditions outside of their control which would
  deem travel to that location unsafe or imprudent.
  Refer to Section VII of the handbook.

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Trip Cancellation continued

• Once accepted for the program, students may
  cancel up to a certain deadline, without penalty.
  Because costs are incurred once the deadline has
  passed, canceling beyond the deadline may result
  in required payment in full or in part by the
  student. The payment will be out of the
  students own pocket since canceling negates any
  potential financial aid eligibility for the trip.

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Trip Cancellation continued

• Students who return to the United States or other
  location prior to the official completion of the
  trip, for whatever reason, forfeit all or a
  portion of their trip financial aid and become
  fully responsible for trip costs.

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Cancellation Deadline

• The cancellation deadline for the February 2007
  trips is
  
• December 13, 2006

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Participant Roles and Responsibilities

• Fulfill the Clinic Abroad Extern job description
• Be an active participant in all activities
  associated with a trip, including all
  pre-departure classes
  
• Be an excellent representative of Palmer, of
  chiropractic, and of the United States.

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Roles and Responsibilities contd

• Be familiar with and obey all laws of the host
  country
  
• Provide chiropractic care at the site clinics to
  those in need
  
• Be a chiropractic educator to patients at site
  clinics on the value of chiropractic health care,
  to the extent allowed due to language barriers
  
• Be an assistant to faculty clinicians and trip
  coordinators at site clinics
  

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Roles and Responsibilities continued

• Assist in the management of the trip itinerary as
  directed by the trip coordinator
  
• Provide support to peer participants in their
  Clinic Abroad program experiences
  
• Complete all required documentation provided by
  the Clinic Abroad Office by the designated
  deadlines
  

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Student Job Description

• READ IT!
• MEMORIZE IT!
• LIVE IT!
• Humanitarian chiropractic care
• Work approximately 12 hours per day during the
  trip, from 10 20 days, depending on itinerary
  
• Clinical and cultural activities - MANDATORY!

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Student Job Description

• FUNCTION
• To provide humanitarian chiropractic care to
  those in need.
  
• To assist faculty clinicians and trip
  coordinators with various tasks relative to
  clinical care provided at site clinics and
  assistance with the management of trip itinerary.

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Student Job Description

• Tasks
• To provide chiropractic care, including
  physical/spinal examination and the chiropractic
  adjustment, to persons who seek care at clinic
  sites
• To maintain complete documentation on all
  patients who receive care
  
• Organize and pack necessary trip materials,
  including both clinical forms and equipment, and
  personal necessities such as bottled water

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Student Job Description continued

• Assist in transporting trip materials
• Participate in pre-departure fund raising
  activities
  
• Participate in pre-departure classes
• Participate in self-directed pre-departure
  learning activities to acquire increased
  knowledge of the country to be visited and its
  cultural norms
• Participate in functions or classes held by the
  host in the country visited
  

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Student Job Description continued

• Provide information about chiropractic to
  interested parties or agencies of the country
  visited
  
• Participate in news conferences or press releases
  in the country visited
  
• Complete post-trip written reports and attend
  post-trip meeting(s)
  

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Student Job Description continued

• The Clinic Abroad Coordinator reserves the right
  to remove students within the program for lack of
  job performance or for failure to meet job
  requirements.

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Other Participants with Roles

• Faculty and Staff of Palmer College
• Extension Faculty or Staff
• Trip Coordinator
• On-Site Coordinator

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Preparing to Go

• Complete all paperwork
• Obtain and passport and visa when required
• Read the information provided by the State
  Department and CDC
  
• Attend all pre-departure classes
• Complete any class assignments
• Actively participate in all fund-raising and
  group functions.
  
• Look up the definition of FLEXIBILE
• in Websters Dictionary

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Lori Defines Flexibility

• Capable of being flexed.
• Characterized by a ready capability to adapt to
  new, different or changing requirements.

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Professional Conduct

• Lets have a frank discussion about this!

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Professional Conduct

• Throughout the entirety of a Clinic Abroad
  Program trip, participants are representing the
  College, the Chiropractic profession, the United
  States, and most importantly, their own personal
  integrity. Personal and professional conduct has
  an impact upon issues of integrity as well as
  personal and group safety.

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Professional Conduct

• Everyone right now -------
• Lets review the Professional Conduct section of
  the handbook together!

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Professional Conduct

• What happens on the trip, stays on the trip.

Shhh, dont tell. No
one will ever know.

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Professional Conduct

What happens on the trip, stays on the trip.
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Professional Conduct

• Participants who are students enrolled at any
  Palmer College of Chiropractic entity, are held
  to the Code of Student Ethics as outlined in the
  Student Handbook during the entirety of trip
  participation.
• Students who are aware of violations of the
  Clinic Abroad rules by any one or more
  participants are required to report the
  incident(s) to the Trip Coordinator.

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Consequences of Failure to Comply

• Failure to comply with any one or more of the
  rules and regulations contained in, but not
  limited to, the Professional Conduct section of
  this handbook ---
• Please be aware ---
• There are consequences.
• We DO follow through with our policies.

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Passports

• Representatives from the Davenport Post Office
  will be available for your convenience in the
  student union from 500 to 630 on Nov. 30 for
  passport applications.
• Bring a certified copy of your birth certificate
  or your expired passport to apply.  Whether you
  attend at this time or not, passports
  applications should be completed this week! 
• This also applies to PCCW PCCF. 

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Passports A few hints

• The cost is 95.00. Please be aware that you
  will need to make separate payments to both the
  Postmaster and the U.S. Department of State.
  This has to be in the form of 2 checks.
• If your passport expires prior to September 7,
  2007 you should renew it prior to this trip.
  
• Do NOT delay in applying for your passport! It
  can take up to 8 weeks to arrive!
  
• The CAP office will need your passport as soon as
  it arrives along with the Visa paperwork.
  
• For Bequia Madagascar and Morocco, only a
  photocopy of your passport is needed.

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Photos for Passports and Visas

• You will need the following photos for your trip
• Morocco 2 Passport Photos and 2 Board Photos
• Brazil 4 Passport Photos
• Bolivia 2 Passport Photos and 2 Board Photos
• Bequia 2 Passport Photos and 2 Board Photos

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Passport DateWhat is That Date Again???

• Thursday, Nov. 30th
• Student Union
• 500 to 630 pm

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Fundraising Activities

• All fund-raising activities and solicitations for
  donations must be pre-approved by the Clinic
  Abroad Office.

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Why do we do Fundraising?

• Some of the people and places that have benefited
  from our efforts

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Fundraising Activities

• CAP coordinates all fund-raising activities and
  solicitations for donations.
  
• Some activities are held by individual trip
  groups while others are held via the collective
  efforts of all groups combined.
  
• Funds raised are provided as charitable
  contributions in the form of monetary or material
  gifts for the peoples the program serves abroad.
  

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Fundraising Activities contd

• All group members are expected to contribute
  their time toward one or more fund-raising
  activities.
  
• Soliciting donations for individual use, whether
  monetary or material, is strictly forbidden.
  

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Assignment for the Week

• Apply for you passport on Nov. 30th after the
  meeting.
  
• Read the CAP Handbook
• Check the Clinic Abroad Website for any
  information updates!
  
• Log onto the following website
• http//www.pacific.edu/culture
• Review the Introduction, Objectives, Structure,
  and Credits.
  
• Complete Module 1, Sections 1-1.2.3
• Be Prepared to talk about the exercises at a
  group meeting.
  
• Please bring the answers to Anticipation and
  Expectation Exercise A from the assignment to the
  meeting the week of Dec. 5.

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Prepare now!
Physically Mentally Clinically Culturally

Emotionally
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Make-Up Meeting Quiz
Please email answers to the Clinic Abroad
Coordinator. Also, please read the messages as
there may be written minutes posted as well.

• In the Clinic Abroad Mission Statement, in what 3
  areas does the program expand learning?
  
• T or F I am responsible for all information
  found in the November 2006 Clinic Abroad Program
  Handbook.
  
• What do I have to do if I do NOT want to have my
  pictures in the Beacon?
  
• When is the Cancellation Deadline?
• What are the possible consequences of returning
  early from your trip?

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Make-Up Meeting Quiz
Please email answers to the Clinic Abroad
Coordinator. Also, please read the messages as
there may be written minutes posted as well.

• What are the 2 functions of participating
  students of Clinic Abroad as described in the
  Student Job Description.
  
• When is the curfew on nights prior to clinic?
• What is the policy on Fraternizing?
• Are participants held to the Student Code of
  ethics at all times during a Clinic Abroad Trip?
  
• What is your name and what trip location are you
  going to?