The FRIENDS OF THE
CHILDREN OF HAITI offers continuing education credit to those registered nurses and EMTs who
participate in F.O.T.C.O.H. medical missions and meet program requirements*. Continuing Education
participants will get a "hands on" intercultural experience in a third world country while
examining health care issues in a vulnerable population.
Participants can expect to:
- Review medications used in Haiti
- Identify common illnesses and discuss symptoms and treatment
- Take patient histories with help of an interpreter
- Examine Haitian patients
- Create a plan of care and choose appropriate treatment
Nurses will receive 102 contact hours provided by OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. OSF Saint Francis Medical Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
EMT's will receive 56 hours of continuing education contact hours through the Peoria Area EMS System and the Illinois Department of Public Health.
In addition, Friends of the Children of Haiti offers a Resident Clinical Rotation that is sponsored by University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria which is affiliated with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. Participants include Pediatric and Emergency Medicine residents at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. This collaboration with Friends of the Children of Haiti provides an ambulatory clinical exposure to illness, disease, injury and malnutrition in a third world environment.