Regional Medical Campus

Guatemalan-Maya Center

The Guatemalan-Maya Center (GMC) is a non-profit community organization located in Palm Beach County that serves the Guatemala-Maya immigrant population in South Florida. In past years, DOCS has held events such as health literacy workshops focusing on community education topics such as diabetes, physical activity, nutrition, and healthcare utilization, along with a simultaneous pediatric program, complementing the adult curriculum to engage the children and encourage families to come together.

This year, RMC DOCS students worked to host multiple events in partnership with the GMC, including CPR and First Aid training sessions (in partnership with the DOCS Emergency Preparedness team), and a Skin Cancer screening event. As part of preparing for the screening event, students worked extensively to develop strategies and partnerships with other community organizations to connect patients to both primary care services and specialty services (if any skin cancer or other issues were identified). We hope that building these connections will allow for enduring partnerships, which will help to strengthen access to healthcare for this underserved community.

Healthcare Access

The RMC DOCS Healthcare Access Project aims to educate and empower students regarding the health insurance and healthcare resources options in Palm Beach and Broward Counties, as well as provide students with public health volunteer opportunities in partnership with the Health Council of Southeast Florida (HCSEF). A major initiative of the Healthcare Access team is to connect students to resources for their patients, including free and reduced clinics and other healthcare resources. The HCA team maintains a digital catalog of resources that can be accessed by a QR code distributed in sticker format to all RMC students, and presents on key community resources to all incoming RMC students during their public health and orientation sessions.

Scholarly Work

The RMC DOCS team presented two posters at the DOCS Community Health Leadership Conference on April 2022. The FLASH Clinic team presented a poster entitled “Establishing a free mobile wound care clinic for patients with injection drug use in Palm Beach County.” The GMC team presented a poster entitled “Implementing skin cancer screening at a LEP community center.”