Requirements: Write a paragraph or two identifying yourself as a 1st or 2nd year PA student in good standing. Include your name, your mailing address, email, and cell phone number and the program’s name, address, and telephone with the guidance counselor’s or director’s name and an interim grade report. The program contact should be aware of the program’s clinics and your interest focused on Latino care. Two letters of recommendation from professors or clinical supervisors are also needed.
In your letter, please describe one or two problems you have seen with Latino patients in the clinic. An example of this is: if patients are not aware of care opportunities or available treatment options for clinical diagnoses such as hypertension, diabetes, or obesity that needed treatment. These problems may have been diagnosed, but the patients could not gain access to medications, counseling, or follow up until you linked them to the services.
A suggestion for linking the child to obesity counselling might be to contact the school nurse or community health care division to ascertain the counselling available in form of diet changes for the Latino population with the help of a nutritionist, who might suggest substitutes for the patients’ diets, who might partner with the child or his parent, and to get a school or community exercise program coordinator in touch with the family.
A follow up discussion on the path taken by the Latino family and/or the contact people in the community that assisted the family with the problems identified would be highly regarded. [One PA student scholarship may be given for care to Puerto Rican patients if such an applicant is identified; another is slated specifically for two California residents.]
Applications may be emailed or sent to the email address below.
Maryann Ramos, MPH, PA (ret.)
maryannramos2@outlook.com
Physician Assistants for Latino Health Scholarship Chairperson
105 River Run, Greenwich, CT 06831
203 561-9050 for pertinent questions or texts
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