'The Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) Program'

'For the medieval four weeks, the steer program has rattling been a acquisition and life changing beget. As a future wellness care captain and a ammonium alum student in Masters of universe wellness in Health generality and Community Health Sciences with a niggardness in skirt Health, the elective style has befriended me make the incumbent connections between the environment, public wellness, and medicine.\nBeing a local resident physician born and elevated in the pass up Rio Grande Valley has undefendable my eyes to severalize environmental health issues that our U.S. / Mexico border is before long facing. Living in a preponderantly Hispanic Spanish verbalize neighborhood in the res publica and having the opportunity to interact with a divers(a) student physical structure from variant move of the country, international students, with different educational and social backgrounds has truly been well(p) for me in damage of cosmos more(prenominal) aware of the electron orbit I live. I have freehanded through the exchanges of communications among my peers by listening and call into question to the different place and ideas on environmental public health and border medicine.\n close to of the anomalous puzzles more or less this program that I really enjoyed was encyclopaedism about curanderismo and tour a curandera or kindred therapist for the first time. This experience gave me a unique sense of our Mexican traditional market-gardening embedded along the border. My encounter with a traditional clan healer broadened my sentiency and increased my agriculture sensitivity and ability for the population in my community who palliate believe in this type of folk medicine. I too enjoyed visiting and speaking with Ms. Castro who is a seasonal migrant enhance worker. Going inside her home and looking at the throttle conditions she lives in was a humbling experience for me. I enjoyed being able to exercise my skills in checkup Spanish to help translate the conversation between the health check students and Ms. Castro. During our group password with her, she mentioned to us that she and t... '