{"id":47324,"date":"2000-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2000\/05\/31\/cultural-trip-includes-lessons-in-health-carespanish\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:55:12","slug":"cultural-trip-includes-lessons-in-health-carespanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2000\/05\/31\/cultural-trip-includes-lessons-in-health-carespanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Trip Includes Lessons in Health Care,\n\nSpanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UNMC Students to Study in Latin America This Summer<\/FONT><\/B><\/p>\n

Nineteen University of Nebraska Medical Center students will spend the<\/p>\n

summer studying community health care and Spanish in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

The four-week course, offered through UNMC’s International Studies and<\/p>\n

Programs, gives students the opportunity to learn about the delivery of<\/p>\n

health care in Central America by observing and shadowing at Guatemalan<\/p>\n

health care facilities, interacting with Guatemalan health care professionals<\/p>\n

and taking field trips. The course, offered twice this summer, will run<\/p>\n

from June 4 through July 2 and July 2 through July 29.<\/p>\n

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for students, who will experience health<\/p>\n

care provided in a different way and in a different setting,” said Sara<\/p>\n

Pirtle, coordinator of the Office of International Studies and Programs<\/p>\n

at UNMC. “It also will give them a foundation for Spanish which is important<\/p>\n

because we need more health-care providers who have Spanish skills to better<\/p>\n

meet the needs of our constituents.”<\/p>\n

Pirtle is organizing the program along with Alfredo Garcia, M.D., an<\/p>\n

affiliated professor of ophthalmology at the Universidad de San Carlos<\/p>\n

de Guatemala and the medical director of the National Centers of Ophthalmology<\/p>\n

in Guatemala City.<\/p>\n


Students will be based in Antigua, which is 45 minutes from Guatemala<\/p>\n

City, and live with Guatemalan families. They will receive individual Spanish<\/p>\n

language instruction, as well as group medical Spanish instruction. They<\/p>\n

also will volunteer at a nearby hospital. Of the 19 UNMC students traveling<\/p>\n

to Guatemala, 17 are from the College of Medicine; two are from the College<\/p>\n

of Nursing.<\/p>\n

Following the initial four-week course, three UNMC students will travel<\/p>\n

to Managua, Nicaragua, where they will spend one month volunteering at<\/p>\n

Los Chavalitos, a clinic Omaha organizations helped start in 1994. The<\/p>\n

clinic continues to be supported by various Omaha groups.<\/p>\n

UNMC is the only public academic health science center in the state.<\/p>\n

Through its commitment to research, education, outreach and patient care,<\/p>\n

UNMC has established itself as one of the country’s leading centers for<\/p>\n

cancer research and treatment, solid organ transplantation and arthritis.<\/p>\n

During the past year, nearly $31 million in research grants and contracts<\/p>\n

were awarded to UNMC scientists, and UNMCs funding from the National Institutes<\/p>\n

of Health increased by 28 percent, going from $16.2 million to $20.7 million.<\/p>\n

UNMC’s educational programs are responsible for training more health professionals<\/p>\n

practicing in Nebraska than any other institution.<\/p>\n


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