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About

The Dominican Medical Association, Inc. (DMA) was founded by a group of physi-cians from the Dominican Republic on April 26, 1997. Our mission continues to be to educate our community about health issues and to assist newly-arrived physicians from abroad get established in their field by providing them with the tools needed to pass the United States medical boards, and then,integrating them into the local medical community through partnerships developed with private and public medical centers.

Programs

Professional Development Activities

We providing information on disease prevention,education, and counseling to our community, as mentors to our newly-arrived colleagues, and as educators at our schools, churches, sports groups,and other community-based organizations.

DMA Programs and Services

For more than 12 years we have been providing the following programs and services

Education

Medical Education through monthly conferences and annual symposiums which keeps our members and the community informed on disease prevention, anticipatory guidance, counseling and treatment of the most common illnesses affecting the New York city community.

Jobs

Our members receive job opportunities in the medical field.

Sponsor Opportunities


Category Gold

Benefits: » Publish company logo on posters, flyers, web-site (limited space available) and other documents that will be used to promote the event. » Distribute cards at night production » Four tickets to Awards Dinner. » Quarter-page ad in awards journal.

Category Platinum

Benefits: » Publish company logo on posters, flyers, and other documents that were used to promote the event. » Distribute cards at night of the event » Mention of your company in all campaign events. » Six tickets to Awards Dinner, and half-page ad in awards journal.

Category Diamond

Benefits: » Publish company logo on posters, flyers, and other documents that were used to promote the event. » Post logo on website (create banner) of the event and all the social pages available on the production front. » Distribute cards at night production and all events. Space allocated for a table. » Logo in the * Main Banner (Red Box) event and * stand banner on stage (space allotted » Mention of your company in all campaign events » Projection of your logo or commercial video, giant screen at the event. » Ten tickets to Awards Dinner, » Presentation and Intervention as Diamond Sponsor in the event day.

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Blog

School-Based Health Centers: An Overview
By Mara Minguez MD, MSc. School-based health centers (SBHCs) can play a critical role in decreasing health care disparities among those who are medically underserved and are often located strategically in locations of high-need, where barriers to care are prominent. This mechanism for providing health care has been widely adopted both nationally in the United...

La Migraña Abdominal Pediátrica
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Inteligencia Emocional “Cerebro con corazón o corazón con cerebro”
Por Miguel R. Hernández, MD* Inteligencia emocional es un término cada vez más popular desde su introducción al mundo científico por Wayne león Payne en 1985. Los Psicologos Peter Salovey, John Mayer en 1990 y luego Daniel Goleman en 1995 con la publicacion de su Libro “La Inteligencia Emocional”, contribuyeron significativamente a la expansión...

Centros de Salud Escolar: “Vision General”
By Mara Minguez, MD, MSc. Los centros de salud escolares (SBHCs, por sus siglas en inglés) pueden desempeñar un papel crítico en la reducción de las disparidades en la atención de la salud entre las personas que carecen de atención médica y que a menudo están ubicadas estratégicamente en lugares de gran necesidad, donde...

Apnea del sueño. “El Roncar es solo un signo”
By Dr. Leonel Carrasco, MD* La Apnea del Sueño es una condición que pertenece a los desórdenes respiratorios del sueño. Consiste en episodios repetitivos de obstrucción (parcial o total) de las vías aéreas superiores. A su vez tiene como mínimo de duración 10 segundos y conlleva a una disminución transitoria de oxígeno e interrupción...

Pediatric Abdominal Migraine
By Douglas Mendez, MD, MSc. * The term abdominal migraine was first used by William A. Brams, MD in 1922 to describe functional epigastralgia that occurs in patients at periodic intervals. He also noted that there was a strong association of the condition with migraine. Most patients had migraine themselves or had a family history...