Languages and Medicine panel

Curious about how language skills are useful in a career in medicine? Interested in applying to medical school?  Come to this panel for insight into how doctors use languages in their work.  Join us for a study break: free pizza will be served!

7:00-8:00pm
Monday, December 6
Memorial Library, room 126

Featured speakers:
Elizabeth Longmier, M.D.
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program, Houston, TX
Dr. Longmier works with Spanish and French and will talk about colleagues who work in other languages as well.

Jehad Algharabli
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Current 1st year medical student, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Mr. Algharabli speaks French and Arabic.

For more information, see the website:
http://www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu/content/uw_students/Language_for_Life/language_for_life_2010_medicine.html

Language for Life is a program of the Language Institute to give UW-Madison students the opportunity to meet with working professionals who studied a foreign language in college and are using that language in their professional or personal lives in inspiring ways.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Language Institute, the Center for Pre-Health Advising, and Global Studies, with financial support from the College of Letters & Science Anonymous Fund.

The Language Institute is an initiative of the College of Letters & Science, with substantial support from the Division of International Studies.

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Wendy S. Johnson
Outreach Coordinator/UW-Madison Language Institute
Coordinator/UW-Madison Russian Flagship Center
1322 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.890.1428
Fax: 608.890.1094
Email: wsjohnso@wisc.edu