Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Alina W: Margaret Tarpley

Medical volunteer efforts involve cross-cultural issues including social, economic, ethnic, religious, education, or language.  Cultural humility and sensitivity as well as respect are vital.
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  1. Alina W.February 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM

    So far, I have researched, emailed, and interviewed my IMVC speaker. She emailed me her CV (resumé) and I have done further research on the organizations she has volunteered for. I learned a great deal after our 45 minute interview. Her main point that she will speaking about in April at the conference in Atlanta is that medical volunteers should have a "spirit of respect" and should be in a "learning mode," rather than a giving mode, when they are volunteering crossculturally. She shared with me the experiences she had in Nigeria when she worked there for fifteen years and also told me of her inspirations and influences that led her to doing this kind of work.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM

    Wow you've done a lot... one thing I would suggest is that you research Nigeria in general (like maybe its history) to get a better idea of why its the way it is today and how that might connect with what your speaker does there.

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  3. Alina W.March 5, 2010 at 10:49 PM

    So far, I have typed 185 words of the rough draft. It's a lot harder than I though it would be... Hopefully, I'll be able to turn it in by tomorrow. Since we found about the deadline just a week ago, I didn't have time reschedule another interview, so I've just been emailing some short questions to I came up in the past couple of days. Our first long interview actually is all I need. She gave some really, REALLY long answers that go into specifics. I'm looking at the interview notes I took right now and trying to decide on which quotes to use in the article. Any ideas on how many quotes we can use?

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  4. Alina W.March 6, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    YES! I have completed the rough draft of the feature article! It's a little over 800 words, but it should be okay. When can we start the peer-editing at turnitin.com? I'm excited!

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