Hardworking Spartans don’t stop grinding when summer break begins. Thanks to UNC Greensboro’s faculty and alumni connections, and support from Career & Professional Development (CPD), many students use the break between semesters for hands-on experience in their desired fields.
During the two weeks the students were on the trip, they shadowed clinicians at medical centers, toured a public and private hospital, worked alongside doctors doing medical outreach, promoted education awareness and dental hygiene for children, and learned about Jamaican culture.
First generation college graduate Lah “Swee” Paw on engaging with opportunity.
Sometimes alumni connections can give an aspiring health care worker the perfect boost to propel them into their careers.
UNCG undergraduate student Bethany Allen always loved working with children. The Community and Therapeutic Recreation major recently found a calling working with fifth-graders at Jones Elementary School in Greensboro for a project with her HHS Student Leadership Program class.
When 20-year-old A’myah Wilson traveled to the Dominican Republic in July as part of a UNCG study abroad trip, she knew it would open her eyes to public health in other nations. What she wasn’t expecting was for it to reshape her philosophy on patient treatment.
