Hundreds of students have come to Laredo, Texas, for our four-week elective in border health. We strive to teach tomorrow's health practitioners how to unite medicine with public health.

Rotation schedule
January 2008 (Laredo)	01/02/08 - 01/25/08
February 2008 (Laredo)	01/28/08 - 02/22/08
March 2008 (Laredo)	Faculty Development - Short Course
April 2008 (Harlingen)	03/31/08 - 04/25/08
June 2008 (Laredo & Harlingen)	06/02/08 - 06/27/08
July 2008 (Laredo & Harlingen)	07/07/08 - 08/01/08
September (Laredo)	09/22/08 - 10/17/08

We are the South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) Center, a part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The course began in 1996, and students give it high marks. "Every day was nothing but outstanding learning throughout," one student said. "STEER never dropped the ball."

Here at the U.S.-Mexico border, you are at the crossroads of the Americas. Laredo's leaders and health practitioners confront long-forgotten diseases, and constant threats to the public health.

Their knowledge is yours to share. We team instructors from the Health Science Center, and The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health with Laredo’s own educators, health professionals, engineers, sanitarians and community leaders.

The elective is designed especially for medical students and residents, and nursing and public health students. We believe in hands-on learning so you will join in health fairs, meet community residents, and see living conditions on both sides of the border.

"What better way to teach border health issues than to enlist the health professionals and experts from Laredo as teachers?" Claudia Miller, M.D., STEER's director, said. "They deal with the issues every day, and are a resource unlike any other in the country. Students have the opportunity to learn how one community grapples with these unmet needs."