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A Lecture on Latina/o home healing practices

David Acosta
October 6, 2017
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Lounge in Hale Hall

You are cordially invited to attend the 2017 Clotilde Dent Bowen, MD, Diversity Lecture Series Student Roundtable Discussion with Dr. David Acosta, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Friday, 6 October, 2017 from 2:30pm – 4:00pm in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Lounge in Hale Hall. Dr. Acosta’s Roundtable discussion will focus on “Commonly Encountered Dolencias y Remedios (Illnesses/Conditions & Treatments)”.
 
The learning objectives include:
Explore the explanatory model of illness
-   Identify common home remedies (traditional medicines) and beliefs that might be encountered in providing health care for Latino patients
-  Describe common traditional illnesses and their treatments
       -Discuss types of traditional healers and the tools they use in healing practices
 
 
If you have already sent me an R.S.V.P., thank you and I look forward to seeing you on the 6th at 2:30 p.m in Hale Hall.
 
Thanks for your time and I hope to see you at the 2017 Clotilde Dent Bowen, MD, Diversity Lecture Series Student Roundtable Discussion with Dr. David Acosta!
 
Valerie
 
Valerie Blackwell-Truitt, M.S.
Director, Office for Diversity and Inclusion
College of Medicine
370 W. 9th Avenue
Meiling Hall Room 061
Columbus, Ohio 43210
614.688.8489
614.292.5364
 
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