Author Archives: Bradley Olson

Ricardo Crespo Regalado prepares for UNC School of Medicine's 2025 Match Day after applying to general surgery residential programs. His goal in medicine is to make sure others have access to the care that his parents didn't have.

UNC School of Medicine’s Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish (CAMPOS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The program has been instrumental in training medical students to become bilingual Spanish-English physicians, ready to serve communities throughout North Carolina and beyond.

Having grown up surrounded by fields in southeastern North Carolina, Ricardo Crespo is training to practice medicine in the same kinds of rural communities. He’s starting that mission with Carolina’s Student Health Action Coalition.

As rural communities nationally face a shortage of primary-care physicians, a mentorship and education program attracts new physicians to underserved parts of western North Carolina.

Going into primary care in rural areas has never been the most lucrative option for graduating medical students, but the UNC School of Medicine is trying to address this through the Kenan Primary Care Medical Scholars Program. With funding from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust and the knowledge...

ASHEVILLE – The effort to attract medical students to pursue careers in underserved rural areas of Western North Carolina is getting a boost with a $3 million endowment to help pay for scholarships.

Reuland DS, Slatt LM, Alemán MA, Fernandez A, Dewalt D. Effect of Spanish language immersion rotations on medical student Spanish fluency. Fam Med. 2012;44(2):110-116.

Reuland DS, Frasier PY, Olson MD, Slatt LM, Aleman MA, Fernandez A. Accuracy of self-assessed Spanish fluency in medical students. Teach Learn Med. 2009;21(4):305-309. doi:10.1080/10401330903228489

Reuland DS, Frasier PY, Slatt LM, Alemán MA. A longitudinal medical Spanish program at one US medical school. J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23(7):1033-1037. doi:10.1007/s11606-008-0598-9