Project Isip

Each year, Project ISIP brings together a group of medical students to Bacolod City, Philippines, where they work hand-in-hand with local partners, community organisations and hospitals. For the next intake, the group will consist of 4 M2s and 4 M1s, along with TTSH staff and doctors.

This year, in collaboration with the University of St. La Salle (USLS) School of Nursing and a team of seven volunteer doctors (including two paediatricians), we conducted our main medical mission at Barangay Pahonocoy – a village in Bacolod City. Through our health screening portion of our medical missions, we were able to identify conditions in our clients that are perhaps undiagnosed or assist in the follow up of known conditions. Then, our clients are able to start on or continue managing their conditions through medications prescribed by our volunteer doctors. We, as medical students, are heavily involved every step of the way, from briefing our volunteers on their roles, to independently taking histories from clients prior to their consultations and much more. With that, there were plenty of opportunities during the trip to apply medical knowledge.

In collaboration with Hearticulate Psychological Centre, we also engaged with residents in the Missionaries of Charity, in which many of them required psychological assistance. We orientated them with simple craft activities and also conducted health checkups for them, providing us with ample learning opportunity to interact with them.