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Campus to Country Programs
“EWH’s mission of pairing the education of young engineers with the improvement of healthcare around the world aligns perfectly with RIT’s vision of training global engineers. The EWH program is a tremendous opportunity for students, as it provides an experience that would be all but impossible to simulate on campus.”
- Professor Iris Asllani, Rochester Institute of Technology
2024 Programs:
Create Your Own Campus to Country Program
Expanding on the success of the Summer Institute programs, in 2014 EWH began offering Campus to Country programs. These programs have been developed as partnerships between EWH and universities around the world to allow students to experience a service abroad program while gaining course credit towards their degree. Each program is open only to students affiliated with the partner university and, in some cases, alumni of the Summer Institute programs.
In each Campus to Country program, students at the partner university take a required technical training course focused on medical equipment operation and repair in order to prepare for multi-week hospital placements in a low-income country. The courses closely follow the EWH curriculum developed in partnership with Duke University for the Summer Institute program, may provide academic credit, and can be easily integrated into a student’s degree schedule.
In this program structure, the training portion of the program typically takes place on campus. We provide our EWH course curriculum to an engineering professor, and they incorporate that into their own related course. We’ll then take care of the travel portion of the program, making all in-country arrangements for hospital placements, accommodation, and other logistics! We can tailor these arrangements to university requirements and requests.
There are many benefits to this program structure, one of the most prominent being that students receive course credit in addition to obtaining field experience they may otherwise never have access to. Additionally, students travel for a shorter period of time (typically 3-6 weeks) compared to our open-enrollment programs, which makes the opportunity more likely to fit into students’ busy schedules. These shorter programs are also more affordable.
Learn more by downloading our Campus to Country Program Information Packet!
EWH has partnered with a number of institutions worldwide for Campus to Country programs, including:
