{"id":41750,"date":"2019-04-02T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=41750"},"modified":"2019-04-05T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:29:36","slug":"emu-students-and-alum-among-volunteers-at-harrisonburg-remote-area-medical-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/emu-students-and-alum-among-volunteers-at-harrisonburg-remote-area-medical-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU students and alum among volunteers at Harrisonburg Remote Area Medical clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">草莓社区 students and an alumnus were among the volunteers at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Harrisonburg on March 2 and 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based in Tennessee, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramusa.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAM<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has offered dental, vision and medical care at over 1,000 clinics in the United States since 1985. In Harrisonburg for the first time, the clinic, which relies on volunteer providers and workers, provided 371 dental, 307 medical, and 287 vision care appointments to 601 people over two days at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds, organizers said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn addition to alleviating the needs of many community members, this clinic was an opportunity for our students to gain valuable experience seeing how a community can join together to provide free health services to anyone who walks through the door,\u201d said Professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=jzh3998\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia Halterman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who directs the EMU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/biomedicine\">MS in Biomedicine program<\/a>. \u201cEMU pre-health students display a deep compassion for serving others, and this RAM clinic was a great opportunity for students to give back to the community. \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nathan Ropelewski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> helped with clinic setup, and <\/span><b>Sitasma Khatri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> assisted patients on the clinic\u2019s first day. Both biomedicine graduate students and members of EMU\u2019s Pre-Student Osteopathic Medical Association, they were \u201cblown away\u201d by the clinic\u2019s magnitude and the high numbers of both patients in need and eager volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was huge,\u201d Ropelewski said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some patients, Khatri noted, traveled for hours to be seen, sleeping in their cars and waiting in line for hours through the night. One had even walked there from Timberville, a trek of over 20 miles and eight hours, according to organizers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retired ophthalmologist and Rockingham County resident <\/span><b>Calvin Miller \u201966<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who has volunteered at RAM clinics for 15 years and was featured in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmra.org\/post\/hundreds-receive-free-medical-care\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WMRA report about the event<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, said that his decades of practicing in medically underserved areas have exposed him to \u201clots and lots of folks\u201d without full access to eye care. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRAM makes it so easy to offer services that I\u2019m still trained to do, so I do it,\u201d he said. \u201cI liked what I was doing, and it\u2019s a way to keep my fingers in the field that I was trained and that I worked in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many other volunteers, too, flocked to the clinic, including from across state lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I got there at 5:30 [the first day] morning, the line for the volunteers was already out that door,\u201d Khatri said. \u201cPeople got there at 4 or 4:30 in the morning to ensure that each station had enough people. I thought that commitment from people who were willing to drive out on a Saturday morning to serve others was incredible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>草莓社区 students and an alumnus were among the volunteers at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Harrisonburg on March 2 and 3. 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