Med student job-shadowing Dr. Powell for four weeks

Shelley Leong, a Seattle native, will be job-shadowing Dr. Linda Powell at the clinic and hospital in Odessa until July 12. Leong is a second-year medical student at the University of Washington medical school in Seattle.

While pursuing her undergraduate degree in pre-med, Leong took advantage of opportunities for foreign travel programs to enhance medical training. On two separate occasions, she spent a week each time in Honduras and another week in Panama, where she found sanitation issues to be a pressing problem for the local population. Both countries struggle with finding sources of clea...