Trio’s web portal a helping hand
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Touro students create website
They’ll be on the front lines soon enough.
But for a trio of Touro University Nevada medical students, this doesn’t mean resigning themselves to the background for now.
Before long, second-year medical students Cassandra Mcdiarmid and Parisun Shoga and fourth-year medical student Ashlie Bloom will be treating patients in the field like their peers who are currently dealing with the coronavirus crisis.
In the meantime, they sought to do their part.
“Just sitting at home and seeing everything that’s happening and not undergrad and MCAT online tutoring; and general community assistance, including grocery pickup for seniors, assistance with screenings, dog walking and more.
“We’re trying to cover basically anything that the community might need,” Bloom says. “There’s even a catch-all, where if somebody needs any help from students, they can fill out a form and it will come to us.”
There will also be a news dimension to the site to provide accurate information regarding various coronavirus concerns.
“We have a research and news team that has come together,” Shoga explains. “This team consists of seven individuals that are going to be putting the right news and research onto our weekly newsletter and also on the website and Twitter page.”
When the site launched this week, 50 students had volunteered, and more are expected.
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