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标题：Supporting the minority physician pipeline: providing global health experiences to undergraduate students in the United States–Mexico border region
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作者：Jose L. Burgos ; Daniel Yee ; Thomas Csordas 等
期刊名称：Medical Education Online
电子版ISSN：1087-2981
出版年度：2015
卷号：20
期号：1
DOI：10.3402/meo.v20.27260
摘要：Background The sizeable US Latino population calls for increasing the pipeline of minority and bilingual physicians who can provide culturally competent care. Currently, only 5.5% of US providers are Hispanic/Latino, compared with 16% of the US population (i.e., > 50.5 million persons). By 2060, it is predicted that about one-third of all US residents will be of Latino ethnicity. Activities and outcomes This article describes the Health Frontiers in Tijuana Undergraduate Internship Program (HFiT-UIP), a new quarterly undergraduate internship program based at a US–Mexico binational student-run free clinic and sponsored by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico. The HFiT-UIP provides learning opportunities for students and underrepresented minorities interested in medical careers, specifically Latino health. Discussion The HFiT-UIP might serve as a model for other educational partnerships across the US–Mexico border region and may help minority and other undergraduates seeking academic and community-based enrichment experiences. The HFiT-UIP can also support students’ desires to learn about Latino, border, and global health within resource-limited settings.
关键词：Mexico ; undergraduate mentoring ; minority physician pipeline ; global health