Global Health and Societies
Being a proudly diverse group in El Paso, it only follows that our program will include a good amount of diversity training. This is done through:
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- Rotating in many different settings in community clinics and county/state hospitals, where we see a variety of demographics. These rotations include Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo (Indigenous Reservation), Veterans Affairs, local school districts, and the migrant clinic, among others.
- Change: Didactics includes dedicated lectures on management of special populations and minorities
- Treating the El Paso community. This, in itself, involves a great amount of diversity: not only our predominantly Hispanic population, but also commuters from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, students from our local university, UTEP, residents of the Fort Bliss military base, medical transfers from all of West Texas and New Mexico, and forensic patients at EPPC. These patients not only have a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, but also a wide range of socioeconomic conditions.
- Interaction with each other. Our group is composed of multiple cultures and ethnicities from around the world, with a lot of social variety: some married with children, some single with pets, and with very different backgrounds, ranging from multiple medical specialties to film majors.