Alisha Bhimani: Finding her calling as a nurse through study abroad

As a non-native English speaker, Alisha Bhimani is acutely aware of disparities in health care, especially around language. Trips to Honduras and Italy strengthened her resolve to become a patient-centered health care provider.

By Stacey Jones for Emory University, Atlanta, GA – March 29, 2016

Alisha Bhimani: Finding her calling as a nurse through study abroad
Alisha Bhimani:. Emory Photo/Video

Alisha Bhimani kept trying to ignore the voice inside her head — the one that urged her to pursue a career that focused on people instead of lab instruments, on working with the public instead of behind the scenes. But then she took her first trip abroad, and that all changed.

A volunteer with Emory’s Medical Global Brigades, she traveled in 2014 to Honduras. “The situations I encountered in one week in Honduras were unlike any I had ever had to confront in a classroom, textbook or laboratory,” she says…

 

Read more of Indian-born, Davidson Medicine and Compassion scholarship recipient Alisha Bhimani’s story of education, family struggle and perseverance, at the Source: Emory University | Atlanta, GA

 

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