Medical outreach
Our longest-running programme. Teams run primary care clinics across the communities around Lake Atitlán, working alongside the departmental government and local translators.
Moments from our outreach in Guatemala, photographed by the volunteers and clinicians who were there.
April 24, 2020
A Wrinkle In Time could well describe our Guatemala 2020 medical trip. In late February our medical team left behind our customary lifestyles in the USA to offer clinics in Guatemala sponsored by Hands for Health Foundation and Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
June 8, 2019
Sights and insights abounded in the 2019 Guatemala trip in March 2–10. Team members included a first-year student who described collaboration among fellow medical students as well as a sense of being daunted and undaunted.
July 20, 2018
On the school global outreach trip to Guatemala, a particularly difficult patient encounter allowed me to reflect on my fears and anxieties about entering the clinical years of my medical education.
