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Relevant, Responsive and Adaptable
March 1, 2013 // Read More
Helping Babies Breathe

 A Third-Party Evaluation Gives High Marks to Physicians for Peace

In 2012, the Physicians for Peace Board of Directors posed a challenge to our staff: Can Physicians for Peace evaluate its effectiveness? Are we objectively assessing our programs – strengths, weaknesses and future opportunities? In short, can we prove that we are making a difference in people’s lives?

To answer that challenge, we engaged the Improve Group, research and evaluation specialists out of St. Paul, Minn., to carefully analyze our outreach efforts in three countries. After months of review, the...

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Leading the Way to Self Sufficiency in the Philippines
March 1, 2013 // Read More
ASEAN award winners

ASEAN Rehabilitation Medicine Convention brought together researchers who have impacted on the well-being of the region’s population and positioning themselves to saving millions of people from unnecessary morbidity. The participants collaborated on prevention and treating disabilities through combining forces and sharing their expertise to further progress.

We are pleased to announce two Physicians for Peace - Philippines Program Directors garnered two of the three achievement awards during the joint 3rd ASEAN Rehabilitation Medicine Convention & 23rd Philippine Academy of...

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It is the human connections that I depend on to weave understanding
February 28, 2013 // Read More

Note: This blog post was written by Emily Tinsley, a longtime PFP IME and Medical Operations Committee member.  Emily recently returned from Santiago in the Dominican Republic where she worked side-by-side local pediatric burn care nurses and delivered hands-on training to the nursing staff at Unidad Ninos Quemados - the pediatric burn unit at the local public hospital.        

In the specialty of international burn education, every participant brings unique expertise to a PFP mission. Combined, all attributes including professional and personal, create a...

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Sharing Tears and Laughter
February 25, 2013 // Read More

A burn care team of IMEs returned from the Dominican Republic over the weekend.  IME Carolyn Ramwell, a nurse from Charlottesville, VA, shares her feelings about the experience.  Carolyn has been an IME with PFP for over 6 years.

When you are a nurse you can experience profound sorrow, joy, sadness and elation in one day or one hour.   Because we care for the human beings, body and soul, a moment can be a lifetime.  As an international medical educator for PFP we join this human roller coaster ride with our host partners as we learn together how to make the best outcomes for the...

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The Value of the In-Country Perspective: The Resource Mothers Experience
February 21, 2013 // Read More

This blog post demonstrates the value of piloting and validating instruments within the given context for monitoring a program’s progress.

Three of our PFP staff members arrived in Santo Domingo this week to work with our Resource Mothers. As PFP’s internal evaluator, my goal for this visit was to meet with the Resource Mothers and their coordinator, Jacqueline to discuss how they are currently tracking the progress of their clients and to revise the measures to accurately reflect daily life, to ensure questions asked are clear and to provide a means for PFP staff to track and...

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