Jan. 4, 2017
Student Practices ‘Quick’ Medicine in Africa
Professors at the Sinclair School of Nursing do not often recommend taking a week off of classes and clinicals. But when senior Stephanie Oetting learned she had the chance to experience medicine in Africa, everyone knew she had to jump at the opportunity. Oetting spent a week in October 2016 working alongside missionaries in medical clinics in five villages throughout the country of Madagascar. The trip was in partnership with Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Mercy Medical Teams, who sends regular medical mission trips throughout Africa. The team included nine Americans and three Madagascan doctors who partnered alongside a general surgeon.
