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Welcome to Temple Emergency Action Corps. Welcome to Temple Emergency Action Corps.Please use the navigation to your right to find the information you are looking for. A brief history and information regarding how we work can be found in About Us. For pictures and stories from our past trips and projects, go to Scrapbook. Information about the organizations we work with and groups doing similar work can be found in Affiliates. If you need to contact us, please go to Contact Us. If you would like to join TEAC go to How to Join for instructions regarding the application process.

On March 24 we left Philadelphia for our first international service learning trip - to Bolivia! We spent the next week trekking to camps of people displaced by flooding in the region around Santa Cruz. Setting up a small portable clinic in whatever space was available, we provided medical care, de-worming, and water purification.

Update: pictures are now online in our scrapbook.

We are pleased to announce our first annual symposium, "Global Disaster Medicine and the Role of Medical Education". We have decided to move the Symposium to September 2008. We will announce specific dates as soon as they are available.

You can register online at www.temple.edu/cme

Med students share their skills through community service

“...the Temple Emergency Action Corps, a student-run project based on Maher's group's efforts, that will train first- and second-year medical students to become first responders who will visit areas locally, nationally and internationally that have suffered natural disasters to offer medical and humanitarian help. The inaugural class will learn medical techniques such as wound care and suturing, and will also learn about psycho-social factors that victims often suffer after a traumatic ordeal.”