Accomplishments | CAMPOS (Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish)

Student Accomplishments:

Farmworker Student Health Alliance – student run organization aiming to improve health outcomes for North Carolina farmworkers through collaboration with UNC medical students, the Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish (CAMPOS), the North Carolina Farmworkers Health Program and migrant farmworkers. Learn more here

Both of the above programs were started by CAMPOS students, and demonstrate the involvement of our students in the global and local community.

Student Research – CAMPOS student Sebastian Werner published a paper in the Harvard Medical Student Review detailing how immigration policies affect the health of Latinx citizen children.

CAMPOS Related Articles:

A longitudinal medical Spanish program at one US medical school.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18612739

Accuracy of self-assessed Spanish fluency in medical students.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20183357

Effect of Spanish language immersion rotations on medical student Spanish fluency.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22328477