Participants
Program B
Program C
Post Observership
Program B
Miguel CasillasAutonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana
Mexico
Prep. for CK/CS
Nidia PayanAutonomous University of Sinaloa
Mexico
Prep. for CK
Marcela PerezUniversity of Colima School of Medicine
Mexico
Prep. For CK
Luciana YacomottiUniversity of Buenos Aires
Argentina
Prep. for CK/CS
Jorge MercadoUniversity of Guadalajara Faculty of Medicine
Mexico
Prep for CK/CS
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Observorship
Luz Selene LozanoAutonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana
Mexico
Observership
Nallely FloresAutonomus University of the State of Morelos
Mexico
Observership
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Post Observership
Maria Cristina AcostaNueva Granada Military University
Colombia
Post-Observership
Maria Cristina graduated from the New Granada Military University in Bogotá, Colombia in 1997. She worked in Colombia as a primary care physician in a rural area where some of her favorite duties consisted of developing health promotion and prevention programs for farmers, indigenous populations, the homeless and victims of Columbia's guerrilla violence. Thereafter, she worked with the Department of Health of Bogotá, during which for two years she was part of the commission for certification and accreditation of health care organizations. In addition, she worked night and weekend shifts as attending physician in the emergency room at Mandalay Clinic in Bogotá.
In 2001, she received a post graduate degree as a specialist in health care management after completing a thesis entitled "The cost of catastrophic illness in Columbia during the year of 2000".
In 2002, she accepted a job offer in Miami where she worked for three years as an international patient coordinator; she facilitated and simplified the understanding between Hispanic patients and the complex health care system in the US.
Maria Cristina is certified by the ECFMG. She has a Postgraduate Training Authorization Letter from the Medical Board of California and will enter the National Residency Match Program for a US Family Medicine Residency in 2009.
Victor CastillaGreater National University of San Marcos
Peru
Post-Observership
Victor graduated from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru) in 2004. He completed a medical internship at Daniel A. Carrion Teaching Hospital located in Callao where he worked with a low income population. He then completed a year of social service with Posta Medica Negritos ESSALUD where he was in charge of different health programs related to hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and osteoarthritis. Victor immigrated to the US, looking for better opportunities to learn and to practice medicine in a different culture.
While in the US, he has been working as a biology, microbiology, genetics, and physiology tutor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga and has contributed significantly to the passing rate of the students of which the majority are pre-nursing students.
It is the desire of Victor to work in a small community where he is able to get to build long-standing relationships with his patients. He performed his social service in a very poor rural town where he was able to not only care about his patients' physical health, but also understand the contributing social and psychological aspects.
Victor is certified by the ECFMG and is in the process of receiving a Postgraduate Training Authorization Letter from the Medical Board of California. He will enter the National Residency Match Program for a US Family Medicine Residency.
Wendy RosensweigAutonomous University of Puebla
Mexico
Post-Observership
Wendy immigated to the US as a teenager, completed public high school and earned a collegiate degree in respiratory therapy. While working as a respiratory therapist in critical and neonatal intensive care, she decided to attend medical school in Mexica, her native country.
After graduating ad honorem and cum laude from the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in 2003, she served as a community physician in San Buenaventura, an economically disadvantaged agricultural community in the heart of Mexico. Subsequently, she taught English to corporate leaders in Mexico City before returning to the United States in 2005.
Since then, Wendy's goal has been to improve the quality of care for Latinos in the United States. Her work experience includes working as a respiratory therapist in Washington, DC and San Diego. In both instances, she attended to critically ill individuals while providing thorough assessments of their status to physicians.
Wendy also worked in a fast-paced doctor's office where her duties consisted of gathering medical history, providing information on medical procedures, and educating patients. Many of these individuals were Spanish-speaking which required her to translate for the patients, their relatives, and those physicians not fluent in Spanish.
Wendy is certified by the ECFMG and has a Postgraudate Training Authorization Letter from the Medical Board of California and will enter the National Residency Match Program for a US Family Medicine Residency.
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