Education Abroad trip for Pre-Health students to Rwanda, Africa during the January 2024 Spring Pre-Session. Learn more about this incredible opportunity below. Highlights of this experience include:
• Visiting hospitals and healthcare facilities that serve patients on different levels of an economic scale and in rural and urban environments; engaging with healthcare professionals about providing care in these diverse spaces
• Learning about and experiencing the history and culture of Rwanda and making connections to health and healthcare
• Reflecting on and engaging with challenges all countries encounter with providing healthcare; applying this to your future as a healthcare professional
• Leading service-learning projects that will impact local people’s health
• Earning 3 credit hours for CASC 392
• Spending a weekend on a wildlife safari in Akagera National Park
Dates: Jan. 6-18, 2024
Faculty Leaders: Dr. Marianna Burks, Biological Sciences & Kadina Koonce, College of Business
Application Deadline: Oct. 1, 2023
More Info and to Apply: https://myworld.unl.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=13190
Scholarship/Financial info: Scholarships may be available for you! See the attached Scholarship Guide.
Questions?: contact Ashley Wallace, ashley.wallace@unl.edu , UNL Global Experiences office
Two additional Pre-Health-related Education Abroad trips are planned for 2024. See below for those details.
Costs Rica – May/June 2024 (2 weeks)
Program Name: “UNL Faculty-Led: Costa Rica: Striving for Affordable, High-Quality Healthcare for All”
Program Dates: 2 weeks in late May & Early June (details to come)
Faculty Leader: Dr. Erin Sayer, Biochemistry
Application deadline: TBD
Contact info: Dr. Erin Sayer, erin.sayer@unl.edu
More information will be available soon!
Japan – May/June, 2024 (2 weeks)
Program Name: “UNL Faculty-Led: Japan: Nutrition, Exercise, Food & Culture”
Program Dates: Mid May – Early June, 2024 (2 weeks)
More Info: http://unl-global-experiences.via-trm.com/program_brochure/18820
Faculty Leader: Dr. Shinya Takahashi, Nutrition Sciences
Application deadline: Feb 1, 2024 11:59pm (Central)
Contact info: Dr. Shinya Takahashi, stakahashi3@unl.edu
More details at: https://myworld.unl.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=13190