FYI. Please contact them directly for further information.
Dear Advising Colleagues,
The University of Southern California's Somos Hermanos Student Immersion
Program is currently accepting applications for both the July - December
2010 and the January - June 2011 program sessions. The goal of our program
is to increase the number of bilingual and culturally competent health care
providers in the U.S. through a six-month intensive language and culture
immersion experience in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Students from any university who are between undergraduate and graduate
school in the health care professions (e.g. medicine, nursing, dentistry,
physical therapy, public health, etc...) are eligible to participate in this
program.
We would appreciate it if you would take the time to review our website and
send our interest e-mail (below) to your university's pre-health list-serv
or any students whom you think would be interested in participating in the
upcoming or future sessions. If you have any questions, please feel free to
e-mail us.
The application deadline for both the Fall Session (July through December
2010) and the Spring Session (January through June 2011) is February 15,
2010.
We hope to hear from you soon,
Joe Herrold and Elise Wach, Directors
USC Somos Hermanos
Student Immersion Program
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Gina Camello, M.Ed.
Director for Admissions
Keck School of Medicine, USC
1975 Zonal Avenue, KAM 100C
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9021
(323) 442-2552 ph.
(323) 442-2433 fx.
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Dear Pre-Health Students,
The USC Somos Hermanos Student Immersion Program is currently accepting
applications for both the July - December 2010 and January - June 2011
program sessions.
Somos Hermanos aims to reduce the health care disparity experienced by
Latinos by increasing the number of bilingual, culturally competent Health
care providers in the U.S. The SIP is a six-month language and cultural
immersion program based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The program combines
intensive Spanish instruction, a comprehensive lecture series, socially and
culturally relevant volunteer projects, weekly activities, and trips to El
Salvador and Mexico to ensure our participants gain the language capability
and cultural competency desperately needed to serve marginalized,
Spanish-speaking Latino populations.
The SIP targets students who have completed their undergraduate education
and are taking a year (or more) off before continuing on to graduate school
in the health professions. We accept students who will be attending
graduate school for medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychology, physical
therapy, public health, and other health-related fields.
"I went and saw my first patient a couple weeks ago and of course, he only
spoke Spanish. I went into the room with a second year student I was paired
with (and who did not know I spoke Spanish), and he proceeded to ask the
patient the usual beginning questions. When I could tell that the patient
did not understand him, I began translating the questions into Spanish and
translating his responses into English to tell the second year student.
Completely surprised at first by my fluency, the second year began telling
me questions to ask him, which I did quite easily and effectively. I ended
up translating both ways - the patient's entire history and physical exam,
without the aid of anything or anyone. This was exactly why I wanted to do
Somos Hermanos, but I got that out of it, and so much more that I couldn't
have anticipated."
- Quote from a past participant currently attending medical school in the
US.
The application deadline for the Fall 2010 Session (July - December) is
February 15th, 2010.
The application deadline for the Spring 2011 Session (January - June) is
also February 15th, 2010.
For more information regarding our program, please visit our website at:
www.somoshermanos.org <http://www.somoshermanos.org/> , or e-mail us at
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We look forward to hearing from you soon,
Elise Wach and Joe Herrold
Directors
USC Somos Hermanos
Student Immersion Program
www.somoshermanos.org <http://www.somoshermanos.org/>
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