Our medical volunteer programs are open to people of different countries. We have positions available in public hospitals where you could help out in different duties. Depending on your skills and medical knowledge you’d be able to work in different areas, such as: patients care, administrative chores, etc. For example, advanced medical students are able to shadow doctors, volunteers who know how to take blood pressure can work in cardiology with patients in rehab. Volunteers could also work feeding patients in the intensive care unit, reading to and with children that are waiting in the pediatrics room, or in kinesiology. Every month the offer is different as availability depends on how many volunteers leave their spot and how many volunteers are needed in each area.

The kind of work you’ll be doing will depend not only on your qualifications, but also on the length of your program and on your conversational Spanish skills. The better qualified in the medical field and in Spanish a volunteer is, and the longer he can stay, the more responsibilities he/she will be assigned and of course the closer to patients he/she will be able to work.

Most health care centers are happy to fit into your schedule thus allowing for flexible starting dates. However, we strongly recommend that volunteers arrive during the first week of the month that is when the orientation meeting and welcome party take place. This way, they can meet all the other participants arriving that month.

The program duration can be flexible depending upon the medical assignment. We ask, however, for a minimum commitment of four weeks. Due to visa reasons and immigration regulations, the maximum length of a medical volunteer placement should not exceed six months.