Graduate Student Immersion

Learn About the Experience

International service learning trips teach more than just clinical care. This immersion program offered to our graduate program students focuses on quality improvement and provides the opportunity for students to work in unfamiliar cultures while facing real-world health care challenges such as working with interpreters and facing medical supply shortages.

Learn About the Experience

Graduate students in the School of Nursing’s Nurse Practitioner program Phil Dillard (Emergency) and Abby Wetzel (Nurse-Midwifery) discuss their immersion program experience with Cabin Creek Health Systems and working alongside clinic staff at the Clendenin Clinic to evacuate medically-fragile residents during the region’s recent storms and devastating flooding. Cabin Creek is a federally-qualified health center that provides essential health services to vulnerable populations in rural West Virginia through several community-based clinics.

Immersion Locations

Farm Worker Family Health Program/Moultrie  

Partnering with The Ellenton Farmworker Clinic, the program is centered in agriculturally rich southwest Georgia. Students are housed in the Hampton Inn in Moultrie, Georgia in Colquitt County.  Counties served by the Ellenton Clinic are Colquitt, Cook, Brooks and Tift.  Each day students deliver preventive care (screenings and well child physicals) to children of migrant workers attending a county sponsored summer school.  Evenings are spent delivering episodic care to farmworkers at farms or housing areas.

West Virginia

Students will stay together in a large rental house near Charleston, West Virginia. This group is hosted by the Cabin Creek and New River Health Systems, two Federally-Qualified Health Centers each consisting of 5-6 clinics. Between the various clinics, opportunities exist for health promotion, chronic disease management and acute illness care across the entire spectrum from pediatric to geriatric patients. Both FQHC's excel in the integration of behavioral health in primary care. For more information on these clinics, please see www.cabincreekhealth.com andhttp://www.nrhawv.org. Expect to share close quarters and long days; but also beautiful views and a unique hill-folks culture of hospitality.

peru

Our partner in Peru, CerviCusco, is an established NGO committed to reducing cervical cancer morbidity and mortality by providing high-quality health care to improve the quality of life for the women of Peru, which has among the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world.

How to Apply

The Lillian Cater Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility is not accepting applications at this time.

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