title: Supporting the minority physician pipeline: providing global health experiences to undergraduate students in the United States-Mexico border region.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The sizeable US Latino population calls for increasing the pipeline of minority and bilingual physicians who can provide culturally competent care. Currently, only 5.5% of US providers are Hispanic/Latino, compared with 16% of the US population (i.e., >50.5 million persons). By 2060, it is predicted that about one-third of all US residents will be of Latino ethnicity.
  This article describes the Health Frontiers in Tijuana Undergraduate Internship Program (HFiT-UIP), a new quarterly undergraduate internship program based at a US-Mexico binational student-run free clinic and sponsored by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico. The HFiT-UIP provides learning opportunities for students and underrepresented minorities interested in medical careers, specifically Latino health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The HFiT-UIP might serve as a model for other educational partnerships across the US-Mexico border region and may help minority and other undergraduates seeking academic and community-based enrichment experiences. The HFiT-UIP can also support students' desires to learn about Latino, border, and global health within resource-limited settings.
authors.affiliation: Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; jlburgos@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Jose L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Burgos
authors.affiliation: Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yee
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Csordas
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Medicina y Psicología, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
authors.forename: Adriana C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Vargas-Ojeda
authors.affiliation: Prevencasa AC, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
authors.forename: Luis A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Segovia
authors.affiliation: Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Steffanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Strathdee
authors.affiliation: Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jose A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Olivares-Nevarez
authors.affiliation: Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Victoria D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Ojeda
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002321:Career Choice; D002983:Clinical Competence; D054521:Cultural Competency; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008800:Mexico; D011203:Poverty; D014481:United States
keywords: Mexico; global health; minority physician pipeline; undergraduate mentoring