Medical Student and Pre-med tickets will include a tote bag with several items, breakfast, lunch and a T-shirt.
Speakers, Workshops, Regional Board Elections
Hosted at Doctor’s Hospital Renaissance in Edinburg Texas
The theme of this year’s conference is “Salud En La Frontera: Inspiring Future Leaders Through Mentorship and Education.” The main goal of our annual conference is to cultivate dialogue and share experiences working with underserved communities along the Southwest, to develop collaborations and inspire new ideas that will help us work toward quality health care for all patients regardless of background, social economic status, and ethnicity, and most importantly to promote the education and professional development of current and future Latino healthcare professionals.
The preliminary agenda includes the following topics and didactic sessions:
Workshops: Border Health
Session A: Barriers to health insurance for families along the border: Medicaid and CHIP disparities
Session B: Health disparities along the border: Childhood obesity and diabetes
Session C: Asthma and other Pediatric conditions
Workshops: Latinos in Healthcare
Maximum of 3 simultaneous sessions
Session A: Becoming a Latino Healthcare Advocate
Session B: Gaining Success: Experiences of Successful Latino Physicians
Workshops: Academia
Session A: Admissions process into medical school and qualities of a competitive application
To be attended by premedical students only
Session B: Success in the wards and Step 1
To be attended mainly by 1st and 2nd year medical students
Session C: Admissions process into residency programs and qualities of a competitive applicant
To be attended mainly by 3rd and 4th year medical students
For more information contact Andrew Escamilla ([email protected]) and Sergio Montano ([email protected]) or visit www.lmsa.net/southwest.