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Short-term Faculty-led Study Away Program Spring Break March 7-14, 2015

Course Name: International Program Fee: $2,233 Informational Meeting (attend 1): Service-Learning: FIMRC Medical Roundtrip airfare, Study Away student fee, basic November 18, 6:30 p.m. PROF 411 Mission in Costa Rica medical insurance, and $1,234 FIMRC participation December 2, 6:30 p.m. PROF 327 Course Numbers: fee.* Application Due: BMS 400 Program Fee Excludes: Ground transportation in December 5 2014 Credit Hours: 2 undergraduate Springfield, passport, incidentals/misc personal expenses, and souvenirs. MSU tuition for 2 hours of Pre-Travel Meetings: Course Overview & Objectives: undergraduate credit. Both Missouri residents and This program partners with the MSU campus January 13, 6:30 p.m. PROF 411 non-residents pay the MO resident per-credit-hour February 23, 6:30 p.m. PROF 411 chapter of the Foundation for International tuition rate, per University policy. Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) Depart Springfield for Costa Rica: Online applications are due by December 5, www.fimrc.org. Through this partnership, March 7, 2015 students volunteer their time and skills to 2014. A nonrefundable deposit of $150 will support FIMRC’s mission of providing access be billed to your student account. To apply, Depart Costa Rica for Springfield: to medical care to millions of underprivileged please: March 14, 2015 and underserved children around the world. • Visit the Study Away website at Post-Travel Meetings: international.missouristate.edu/studyaway/ Project Alajuelita is an intensive one-week • Choose Apply Now April 11, Time & Location TBA program through which students will gain • Search for a Program (under Apply Interested in going? experience working at the FIMRC clinic in for a Study Away Program) Contact a Program Director, San Felipe, Alajuelita, outside of Costa Rica’s • Choose Simple Search Dr. Colette Witkowski, Department • Type Costa Rica under Program Name capital city of San José. An estimated 12,500 Head, Biomedical Sciences • Choose International...Mission in Costa Rica Nicaraguan refugees—mostly women and Phone: (417) 836-5603 • Choose Apply Now children—live in this area and suffer from [email protected] many readily treatable and largely preventable Scholarship Eligibility & Financial Aid Dr. Carmen Boyd, Dietetics Program medical conditions. Students may apply for the College of Health and Director, Biomedical Sciences Human Services Study Away scholarship. Applications Phone: (417) 836-4352 Participants in this program will live with are due to the Study Away office by November 14, [email protected] local host families and work with medical 2014. Please see the scholarship page on the Study professionals in FIMRC’s clinical and Away website. Additionally, students who receive Lauren Lester, MSU FIMRC Liaison community health outreach programs. financial aid may apply aid to this program. Contact the [email protected] Students also will have the opportunity to: Office of Financial Aid at 836-5262 for more • Observe first-hand the disparities between information. health care “haves” and “have-nots” *The FIMRC participation fee ($1,234) covers ground • Expand understanding of the people, transportation, lodging, meals and volunteer related countries and cultures of Costa Rica and activities in Costa Rica. Students pay this fee directly Central America to FIMRC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving pediatric and maternal • Learn principles that may be applied to health in the developing world through the Missouri State University Study Away Programs working with other medically under served implementation of innovative and self-sustainable Jim D. Morris Center, Suite 403 communities health improvement programs. A portion of the 301 S. Jefferson Ave., Springfield, MO 65806 FIMRC program fee may be tax deductible. P: 417-836-6368 • E: [email protected] W: http://international.missouristate.edu/studyaway/ Course Objectives homestay families. This arrangement provides Application & Payment Procedures Though Costa Rica promises universal health for three home-cooked meals daily and the Missouri State University students and others who care to its 4.2 million native citizens, many of opportunity to get to know Costa Rican people are approved by a Program Director may apply. the country’s poor - as well as thousands of and culture first-hand. Students will pay FIMRC fees ($1,234) directly to political refugees from neighboring Nicaragua Course Credit & Requirements FIMRC; see university billing procedures below. Please note that, while Spanish fluency is not - have little access to medical care. Students fulfilling the academic requirements required, any level of comprehension will be This international service-learning course for the course, as outlined below, will receive useful in communicating with the host families, combines academic, cultural competence and 2 hours of undergraduate credit for BMS 400. medical staff and, especially, patients. community engagement objectives in accord Grades will be based on participation in and with Missouri State University’s public affairs MSU Students: A non-refundable deposit of $150 completion of the following: will be billed to your University account upon mission. Through this program, students will Discussion and Participation (30%): application (deadline Dec. 5, 2014). You will see the immense need of refugee populations Students must attend all pre-travel, in-country receive a second billing on Jan. 2, 2015 and a final and the extraordinary efforts put forth to and post-travel class meetings and participate billing on Feb. 2, 2015, for the balance of the provide them hope and good health for the fully in all assignments and activities. program fee ($849). MSU course tuition ($408) will future. This experience will serve as a be billed to your University account separately and foundation for students who wish to become Daily Log/Reflection Journal & Report is due according to the university payment plan. more deeply involved in community and global (30%): Students will record their travel Visiting Students: A non-refundable deposit of health. itineraries and experiences working with health $150 must be paid through the Study Away Participants in this program will: care professionals and medically underserved Storefront on or before Dec. 5, 2014. The balance populations in Costa Rica, including of the program fee ($849) must be paid through • Be able to speak 20 words/phrases in documentation of one educational session for a the Study Away Storefront by Feb. 9, 2015. MSU Spanish prior to departure Nicaraguan refugee or Costa Rican family. course tuition ($408) is also due by Feb. 9, 2015 • Prepare and present one educational health Students also will reflect on how their and must be paid at the bursar’s office or on-line topic to Nicaraguan refugee and Costa Rican experiences in Costa Rica challenged, changed through my.missouristate.edu. families, with the assistance of an interpreter or reinforced their pre-existing ideas about the In order to ensure participation in this Study • Assist health professionals in the local clinic, social, economic, political and cultural issues Away program, each student must pay the soup kitchen, schools and homes affecting health care in the developing world. entire program fee by February 13, 2015. • Keep a daily reflection journal, to be used as This journal will provide the basis for a Alternatively, a student may show proof of the the basis for a PowerPoint presentation PowerPoint report comparing the Costa Rican financial aid that will pay for the fee. If a highlighting their FIMRC medical mission and U.S. health care systems. NOTE: Students student does not pay the program fee, or does experience and comparing health care in must use the MSU Service-Learning Reflection not show proof of financial aid that is sufficient Costa Rica and the U.S. Journal; no credit will be given for a non-MSU to cover the fee, the student will be withdrawn log book or journal. The completed journal must from the Study Away program, dropped from STUDY TOUR be signed by the Program Director and/or FIMRC the course, and his/her airline reservation will Dates and activities subject to change. coordinator prior to submission. be canceled. Visiting students must also fully Pre-Travel Class Meetings: PowerPoint Presentation (40%): Students pay the tuition amount by Feb. 9, 2015 in order to stay enrolled in the program. Estimated January 13, 6:30 p.m. PROF 411: Trip will work in small groups to prepare and present a 10-minute PowerPoint focusing on program fees are based on rates in effect on the details, information, and forms. publication date of this flyer and may be subject to one aspect of their learning experience with February 23, 6:30 p.m. PROF 411: Final change. Program participants agree to a potential meeting about safety, what to pack, etc. the FIMRC medical mission in Costa Rica and increase of up to 10% if rates increase before or Possible Spanish language practice. discussing disparities between Costa Rican and during travel. U.S. health care. Medical Mission in Costa Rica: Cancellation & Refund Policies The program encompasses five 7-hour days of Required texts: None. • Students who withdraw prior to Jan. 23, 2015 will health care and education activities. receive a refund of fees paid, less the $150 deposit Participants will divide their time between the and any non-refundable purchases made on his/her FIMRC medical clinic and the surrounding behalf. community. Activities may include: • If a student must withdraw after Jan. 23, 2015 for • Managing patient intake, charting vital signs a bona fide medical reason, s/he will receive a and updating medical records refund of fees paid, less the $150 deposit and • Observing and assisting clinic staff with non-refundable expenses. A certificate of wellchild visits, acute care and psychological incapacitating illness or injury from a licensed evaluations physician is required. • Organizing medications in the clinic • Students withdrawing voluntarily after pharmacy and reviewing instructions with Jan. 23, 2015 will receive no refund. patients and their caregivers • When the program begins, no refunds will be • Accompanying nurses on house visits issued under any circumstances. • Conducting health education presentations • All notifications of withdrawal must be made in at the nearby soup kitchen and schools; writing and sent to the Program Director and the Director of Study Away Programs at the Study Away topics may include nutrition, clean water and Office, Jim D. Morris Center, Suite 403. sanitation, dental hygiene, prenatal care, HIV Non-payment of fees does not guarantee prevention, etc. withdrawal. Participants will live with FIMRC-affiliated