Community Health Experience
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso
Developing Tomorrow’s Physicians Today
Summer 2007 Community Health Experience
for First-Year Medical Students & Undergraduate StudentsHispanic Center of Excellence & Department of Family Medicine
The Hispanic Center of Excellence and the Department of Family Medicine at Texas Tech in El Paso offer a summer community clinic program that provides a first-hand experience in health care delivery at the community level.
The curriculum would include:
• Running a weekly Health Club for children teaching about nose bleeds, dehydration, cuts and first aid.
• Running a health clinic for 2 days at a Guadalupe Mexico orphanage.
• Being instrumental in Boy Scouts First Aid merit badge requirements.
• Regular clinic work.
• Attending delivery of babies in a hospital ward.
Field trips and outreach activities explore border culture including language, customs and folk-medicine. Students learn the why’s and how’s of working with cross-border health care. Medical students, between their first and second years, from any accredited US medical school may apply. Medical students will receive a stipend of $325/week. Off-site housing is negotiable. The program will be May 29 through June 22, 2007.
Undergraduate students with 60 credit hours or more are also invited to apply. Housing will not be offered for undergrads. Students will work side-by-side with medical students and faculty. Hands-on activities will be limited however. Stipends will be $300/week. This program begins on May 21, and ends on June 22, 2007.
Program Director is Ulysses Urquidi, M.D. at Ulysses.Urquidi@ttuhsc.edu
Administrative Director is Joyce Palmer at Joyce.Palmer@ttuhsc.edu
Summer Community Health Experience
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso
Hispanic Center of Excellence
4800 Alberta Avenue
El Paso, TX 79905
Phone: 915-545-6550
Fax: 915-545-6548
2007 Community Health Experience Application