Tips for those doing eye exams in Spanish

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V/I Board Member Dr. Michael Ciszek speaks fluent Spanish. Here is a language tip for anyone doing eye exams in Spanish: 

Dr. Molly Martin, creator of the Medical Spanish Podcast, put together a series of audio lessons covering Spanish for basic eye care. You can find her Medical Spanish audio lessons at docmolly.com. To get the Spanish for Eye Care series for free, email her at molly@docmolly.com, and explain that you are a volunteer through VOSH. I highly recommend Dr. Martin’s podcasts. They have practical information and are short enough for us busy folk. She offers both medical Spanish podcasts and Spanish grammar podcasts. Both are excellent.

You can also find her on….
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MedicalSpanishPodcast/
Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/MedSpanishPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/spanish_podcast/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mollymartinmd

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Updated COVID-19 and VOSH Humanitarian Clinics Advice

Due to an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 infections, a new variant that is more contagious, and these being early days in the vaccination distribution, VOSH/International DOES NOT recommend that chapters participate in domestic or international eye and vision clinics at this time.

We reiterate that at a time when the coronavirus continues to spread quickly in many parts of the world and vaccinations are not yet available to local populations, the risk of close contact with patients in a crowded outpatient environment remains high.

If a VOSH Chapter or VOSH volunteer chooses to hold a clinic against our best guidance, this is done at your own risk, by your own decision and should be in line with current local/national government rules.  VOSH/International would like to reiterate that safety for VOSH volunteers and our patients is of utmost importance and central to any decision-making process.

We have published our updated clinic guidelines with best practices to be observed in this new context.  You can download VOSH/International clinic guidelines here

Also please keep checking the following sites with official and most recent updates:

World Health Organisation: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

US CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/when-to-delay-travel.html

US Government Travel Advise: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/COVID-19-Country-Specific-Information.html

Thank you for your patience in these unprecedented times, hard work and dedication to improving vision and eye health throughout the world.

John Daniel Twelker, OD, PhD, FAAO, FVI

President, VOSH/International

January 2021