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International Health Opportunities
Find our more about international health opportunities by visiting the website of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) at www.ifmsa.org |  |
Unite for Site Volunteer Abroad Opportunities
Unite For Sight is a nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. The eye clinic's eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic's eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery.
What Do Volunteers Do?
Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to practice cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
How Do I Apply?
The application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities are available here
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Child Family Health International
Child Family Health International ( www.cfhi.org ) is a global family of committed professionals and students who work at the grassroots level to promote the health of the world community.
Since 1992, Child Family Health International has run global health, service-learning electives for pre-medical, medical and other students of the health professions. Students from all over the world travel to program sites in Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, and South Africa, to immerse themselves in new cultural contexts and to learn about the way healthcare is practiced and experienced worldwide.
Clinical programs take place every month of the year, are 4 to 8 weeks long, and include clinical rotations with local preceptors in a variety of clinical settings, housing with local homestay families, or, in some cases, guest houses where homestay families are not available, and language instruction (including Medical Spanish) in Spanish-speaking countries.
Programs range in focus from HIV & Public Health Challenges in New Delhi, India, to Amazon Indigenous Health in Ecuador.
For more information on all of CFHI's 15 program sites, and to apply online go to the International Programs area of www.cfhi.org
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