Karen Johnson, MD, worked in a rural clinic in southern Belize in February that had three examining rooms, a sparsely equipped lab, a pharmacy, and a couple of microscopes that local clinicians thought were broken.
“The microscopes actually worked, but there was a lack of knowledge about how to use them,” says Dr. Johnson, a pathology resident at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., who received a $2,000 ASCP Resident Subspecialty Grant to work in the field of global health in Belize.
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