Dear Pre-Health Students,

The USC Somos Hermanos Student Immersion Program is currently
accepting applications for both the July – December 2009 and January –
June 2010 program sessions.

Somos Hermanos aims to reduce the health care disparity experienced by
Latinos by increasing the number of bilingual, culturally competent
health care providers in the U.S. The SIP is a six-month language and
cultural immersion program based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The
program combines intensive Spanish instruction, a comprehensive
lecture series, socially and culturally relevant volunteer projects,
weekly activities, and a trip to El Salvador and Mexico to ensure our
participants gain the language capability and cultural competency
desperately needed to serve marginalized, Spanish-speaking Latino
populations.

The SIP targets students who have completed their undergraduate
education and are taking a year (or more) off before continuing on to
graduate school in the health professions. We accept students who
will be attending graduate school for medicine, dentistry, nursing,
psychology, physical therapy, public health, and other health-related
fields.

The application deadline for the Fall 2009 Session (July through
December ) is February 22, 2009.

The application deadline for the Spring 2010 Session (January through
June) is March 27, 2009.

For more information regarding our program, please visit our website
at: www.somoshermanos.org, or e-mail us at info@....

We look forward to hearing from you soon,

Elise Wach and Joe Herrold
Directors
USC Somos Hermanos
Student Immersion Program
www.somoshermanos.org
info@...