Twenty-six FAMU pre-med, nursing, pre-physician assistant, and physical therapy students spent much of their Christmas break traveling to Nicaragua to volunteer with Synaptic Communities, a nonprofit, to provide healthcare to low-resourced, at-risk, underserved citizens.
The eight day experience helped the students to put their academic training into practice and learn more about the medical profession outside of their normal classroom environment. The students, with the assistance of a translator, were able to provide care to over 230 patients and develop new relationships with caring physicians and health care workers from around the globe.