Team MED is a student-run organization that organizes global health initiatives to allow students to participate actively in supporting communities abroad. Their objectives are to build sustainable relationships with developing communities through holistic health promotion projects, donation of medical equipment, village outreach, and cultural exchange. They provide structured trip programs with preparation, skills training, and a detailed itinerary. They emphasize ethical guidelines like prioritizing host communities, emphasizing education, and ensuring sustainability. Students can get involved through community outreach trips, local volunteering, resource collection, and individual electives with support from Team MED. An upcoming trip overview provided details on their recent trip to Tonga focused on issues like obesity, diabetes, and limited healthcare access through work at

1. Team:MED Launch
27th March 2014

2. Who are we?

3. • To allow students to actively participate in global
health initiatives
• To support students in the preparation of their
own global health initiatives
• To build relationships with developing
communities that are sustainable and mutually
beneficial
• To enhance students’ understanding and
awareness of healthcare in developing
communities
Our Objectives

4. TeamMED
TM Global Health
Initiatives
Community Outreach
Trips
Local Volunteer
Opportunities
Education
Individual Student
Medical Electives
Resource Collection
and Donation
What Do We Do?

5. • Holistic projects
– Health promotion
– Donation of medical
equipment
– Village outreach
projects
– Cultural exchange
• Structured trip program
– Pre-trip preparation: meet
your team, cultural/
language courses, research
and needs analysis,
fundraising, skills training
– Detailed day-to-day program
– Proper de-briefing
Community Outreach Trips

6. 1. Recognise that patients’ rights are universal.
2. Put your host community’s interests first.
3. Give local trainees priority.
4. Emphasise education.
5. Think long-term sustainability.
6. Do not use the ‘developing world’
for practising your skills.
7. Practise quality medicine.
8. Know your limits.
9. Have a focus.
10. Consider the broader implication of your presence.
10 Ethical Guidelines
A Guide to Working Abroad, MJA, 2011

7. • Focusing on community’s needs
• Teaming up with existing services
• Capacity and infrastructure building
• Good donation principles
• Multiple return visits
Medical
students
Host
community
Ensuring Mutual Benefits…

8. TONGA 2013Sneak Peek: Where do we go?
TONGA!! UGANDA!!
NEPAL!!
… Upcoming
Indigenous Trip!!
More info to follow!!

9. Local Volunteering Initiatives
(LVOs)

10. Resource Collection

11. • Elective information night
– Held on April 14th
– Practical information session
• TeamMed’s elective guide
– Download it from www.teammed.org
– Contextualized to Monash medicine faculty
• Resource donation
– Contact us 6 weeks in advance!
Student Elective Support

12. www.teammed.org
Stay Tuned!
Search: Team MED

13. Tonga
Andrew Long & Elliot Anderson
Mālō ē lelei

14. Tonga

15. • OBESITY
– 69% obese
• Heart disease
• Diabetes
– 18% of Tongans have diabetes,
– By 2030, 25% of pop will be diabetic
• Access to healthcare resources
Tonga – the health issues

16. Our trip – Hospital

17. Our trip – Outreach clinic

18. Our trip – Diabetes Screening

19. Our trip - Donations

20. Our trip – It’s not all work

21. • Potential Research Opportunity
• Formal Diabetes Screening Clinic
• Health Promotion Radio Campaign
• Tonga Hospital Experience
Your trip

22. • Who? – 4-6 students
• When? – June
• Cost - $1500-2000 inlcuding flights
• Applications close Sunday April 5pm
• Extra info:
– ajlon1@student.monash.edu
– epand1@student.monash.edu
Tonga – Trip details

23. Thanks