UNM Medical Students Out Of The Classroom And Into The Community

KUNM | By Spencer Beckwith

Published August 26, 2016 at 9:59 AM MDT

UNM medical student Karissa Vasquez with her preceptor, Steven Hartman, MD, at El Pueblo Health Services in Bernalillo this summer.

This summer, over 100 medical students from the University of New Mexico spread out across the state, working at health care facilities in rural or underserved communities. The program is part of the UNM School of Medicine's Practical Immersion Experience.

Second-year student Josh Romero talks about his work this summer at La Familia, a community health center in Santa Fe.

Josh discusses his experience at La Familia in greater detail in this longer version of the interview.

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Spencer Beckwith

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.

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