Accomplishments

Student Accomplishments:

Proyecto Puentes de Salud– student run organization aiming to address health care inequalities by serving as a “health bridge” between underserved Latino communities—both in North Carolina and in Mexico—and needed health services. Learn morehere

农业工人学生健康联盟– 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 morehere

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

Student Research– CAMPOS studentSebastian Wernerpublished 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