{"id":23407,"date":"2005-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2005\/09\/29\/medical-students-headed-for-the-gulf-coast\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T05:00:00","slug":"medical-students-headed-for-the-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2005\/09\/29\/medical-students-headed-for-the-gulf-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical students headed for the Gulf Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"1\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/triotogulf.jpg\" border=\"2\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<font face=\"arial\" font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\nFrom left: Nicole Grossenburg, Katie Honz and Missy Yeska.<br \/>\n<\/FONT><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Three UNMC medical students are heading to Waveland, Miss. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not sure what they&#8217;ll find in the town nearly wiped off the map by Hurricane Katrina, but they&#8217;re ready to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, fourth-year medical students Nicole Grossenburg of Sioux Falls, S.D., Katie Honz of Omaha and Missy Yeska of Norfolk will drive to Waveland, a coastal community of 7,000 about 35 miles east of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Their 2 1\/2 week volunteer experience, which will include living in a tent and assisting health care teams with wound care, triage, immunizations and basic health care, will be invaluable, they said. <\/p>\n<p><TABLE border=\"1\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<font face=\"arial\"><br \/>\n<B><br \/>\nHow to help<br \/>\n<\/B><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nHelp support UNMC medical students traveling to disaster-affected areas by entering a drawing to win Husker football tickets. Donations of $5 or more (all donations will be accepted) will be entered into a drawing to win two 50-yard line tickets to see Nebraska play Oklahoma on Oct. 29. Two sets of tickets will be given away. Any excess proceeds will be used to help fund student-led service trips in the spring. <\/p>\n<p>Entries may be given to any Student Senate, Faculty Senate and American Medical Chapter member before Oct. 13. Entries should include a name, telephone number and e-mail address. Entries also will be accepted between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. outside the Nebraska Cafe and Clarkson cafeteria on Friday, Sept. 30.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<\/FONT><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE><br \/>\n&#8220;As students we have an incredible debt load, so we can&#8217;t donate financially, but we can give our time,&#8221; Honz said. <\/p>\n<p>Grossenburg agreed. &#8220;It&#8217;s a unique opportunity and a way for us to give back,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The American Medical Student Association assigned the trio to Waveland, to assist in a clinic that sees about 80 patients a day. The students will receive rotation credit for their experience as part of their family medicine off-campus elective. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good preparation in how to handle emergency situations,&#8221; Honz said. <\/p>\n<p>Yeska agreed. &#8220;We&#8217;ll learn how to deal without and cope with less than ideal circumstances,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Other senior medical students who are setting up similar experiences, should contact Paul Paulman, M.D., professor of family medicine, to arrange for academic credit. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three UNMC medical students are heading to Waveland, Miss. 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