Lisa Slatt, MEd
Coordinator
slatt@med.unc.edu
919.966.3912

Campus Box 7595
Chapel Hill, NC
27599-7595

Immersion

All CAMPOS students are strongly encouraged to do an immersion elective in a Spanish-speaking country. Students can do this in the summer following the first year, or in the fourth year. There are a number of excellent programs from which you can choose. Here are program features that we recommend students look for:

• The majority of your time is in a clinical or research setting providing direct service, in Spanish, to patients and with proper supervision.
• Home stay with a family
• An opportunity to visit or work in several different clinics
• Spanish-language classes if you want to have them

From time to time, the CAMPOS program might have funds to help defray the cost of immersion experiences. When such funds are available, students will be notified.

To complete an application for the summer of 2008, click here: FORM and return to Patty Neff.

The Travel Health powerpoint contains useful information about resources for travel health to Central and South America..

Programs/electives to consider:

• Ambulatory Care Selective: Global Health in Family Medicine: see photo journal from the 2007 trip: Course Director: Dr. Martha Carlough
• Inter-American Health Alliance: Local contact Mike Brown
• Honduran Health Alliance: A UNC student-run summer program
• Council on International Educational Exchange [CIEE]
• Child Family Health International, Clinical Rotation in Oaxaca Mexico [CFHI]
• Adventure Education Center – Dominical, Costa Rica Campus
• International Health Central American Institute [IHCAI]
• International Alliance in Service and Education [IASE]
• Mar de Jade - Medical Volunteers
• Mar de Jade - Spanish Classes
• Medical Spanish Program, San Diego
• Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba [MEDICC]
• Shoulder to Shoulder, Honduras
• Medical Spanish School, Guatemala
• Welcome to International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC)
• Medical Spanish Immersion, Oaxaca, Mexico

Funding for Immersion Experiences:

The School of Medicine: The SOM supports 10 international fellowships projects each year. Individual awards are $1000.00. While preference is given to fourth year students, preclinical students can also apply. Visit this website for details: http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/1dean/oia/main.htm#top

Other funding sources

• James S. Westra Memorial Endowment Fund of the Christian Medical & Dental Society
• AP/Reader’s Digest International Fellowships
• The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention
• AMA International Medical Student Studies Program
• American Medical Women's Association's American Women's Hospitals Service
• Global Health Ministries (Lutherans)
• Charles S. Houston Award of the Wilderness Medical Society

Getting the Most Out of International Experience

This handout contains useful resources available through the University.

Student Feedback

We collect information from students who have taken various immersion experiences. Their feedback in is our searchable database. Click on this link to learn about countries that you are interested in.