PAs in Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief

[ccouture]

Hi all,

 

If any of you have been involved or know someone that was involved in humanitarian assistance or disaster relief as a PA can you please tell me a bit about your/their experience? How did you get involved in it? What did you do on a day to day basis? Was it a rewarding experience? Is it something that you could make a career out of or was it more of a short term position? 

 

Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated!

[SocialMedicine]

emedPA will have much to say I am sure .... 

Has been discussed before .....

Consider DMAT team as well .....

[EMEDPA]

do a search here for "Haiti" for discussions of various mission trips.

after that pm me if you have specific questions. I am on 4 disaster medical teams right now; 2 state, 1 federal, and 1 international.