Monroe College students to travel for a healthier world

This fall the Monroe College School of Allied Health Professions will launch a Healthcare Study Abroad Program designed to give students unmatched real world experience working with professional health and medical teams from developing countries as well as students from other colleges and universities to provide desperately-needed medical services to local populations.

Cocktail Reception – Monday, March 5 at 6:00pm on the Bronx campus

To purchase tickets contact the Office of Career Advancement at 718-933-6700 or Dean Carol Genese at cgenese@monroecollege.edu

On Monday, March 5, 2012 the Monroe College Scholarship Fund will hold a fundraising cocktail reception in King Hall at 2501 Jerome Avenue, Bronx, NY to present the participating students and the faculty and staff and other personnel who have developed this remarkable opportunity. Anita Wilenkin and Louis Peterson of the Open Door Medical Centers, Ossining, NY are the event’s Honorary Chairpersons.

“In the Healthcare Study Abroad Program our students will have a once-in-a-lifetime field experience, invaluable for seeking employment and graduate degrees,” said Dr. Jerry Kostroff, Dean of the School of Allied Health. “They will also learn about the foundations of health care delivery by helping to provide underserved populations with the care they are not getting, but certainly deserve.”

Healthcare Study Abroad students will be in the Dominican Republic for ten days beginning April 12. They will visit hospitals and medical clinics in the D.R. where they will use the skills they have learned to provide medical care under the supervision of local health care practitioners. In addition, students will provide public health education so that the leaders of the communities can institute programs that will eradicate and prevent the diseases that afflict the residents. They will be accompanied by Dr. Jerry Kostroff and Monroe College Professors Tasha Valentino and Dr. Desmond Poyser.

The students were selected from Monroe’s Public Health, Medical Assisting, and Pharmacy Technician programs after going through a rigorous screening process including a review of academic standards, submitted essays, personal interviews, and satisfactory completion of Medical Spanish and Global Health Issues courses.

The Healthcare Study Abroad Program is part of a contractual agreement between Monroe College and International Service Learning, ISL, a non-profit organization registered in the United States and the countries in which they serve (Central and South America, Mexico, Africa and the Caribbean).

To purchase tickets for the March 5 reception, contact the Office of Career Advancement at 718-933-6700 or Dean Carol Genese at cgenese@monroecollege.edu