The Global Health Academic Concentration
Follow UC San Diego School of Medicine's GHAC students around the world.
When I returned home from nearly two months in Brasília, the most meaningful souvenir in my suitcase wasn’t a gift or a photograph. It was a worn-out notebook filled with seemingly random Portuguese words I had scribbled down throughout the summer. Some were medical terms I heard and quickly translated in between patients in the … Continue reading The Words I Brought Home from Brasília
It is a distinct experience to feel that you are living in a place as opposed to visiting. This is one of the strengths of the global health academic concentration at UCSD. I have felt integrated into the cities and healthcare systems that I have worked in. As an MS1, this was Maputo, Mozambique and … Continue reading Discovering Quito: The Difference Between Visiting a Place and Living There