Medical Mission to El Salvador

Catalog description

8 day medical mission experience in El Salvador. Helping hands medical missions (www.hhmm.org), is a Catholic medical mission organization with the dual purpose of serving the health care needs of the poor as well as to spiritually build up the participants of each mission. Resident physicians and 3rd or 4th year medical students see patients alongside family physicians or other primary care physicians. Our focus will be to meet some of the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the people through primary care. We will utilize a primary care and surgical team. each physician will see approximately 75 patients a day, at various sites. Our surgical team will operate at one hospital. Medical students and resident physicians are welcome to participate in this team effort. We have had family practice, internal medicine and OB residents join us in the past. Ob residents will primarily spend time in surgery.