{"id":45549,"date":"2014-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/24\/med-student-joins-program-to-provide-surgical-care-to-poor-countries\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:41:25","slug":"med-student-joins-program-to-provide-surgical-care-to-poor-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/24\/med-student-joins-program-to-provide-surgical-care-to-poor-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Med student joins program to provide surgical care to poor countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>\n<strong>Eric Nagengast,<\/strong> a UNMC medical student, is working in the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical School. The program works to provide surgical care for low income countries. Nagengast is taking the year off between his third and fourth year of medical school. He is part of a group that has been asked by The Lancet, a major medical journal, to lead a commission on global surgery. The commission will hold meetings in Boston, Sierra Leone (a country in West Africa), and an undetermined location. These meetings will be attended by global health and surgical experts from all over the world. Eventually, the commission will produce a report that will be published in the Lancet. Nagengast encourages other UNMC students &ndash; especially medical and public health students &ndash; to consider getting involved. 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