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Medicine in MERIDA

Our partner hospitals in Merida present exceptionally diverse offerings for medical students. For example, you could first gain experience in a modern, high-tech institution. The patients themselves, however, are typically from impoverished backgrounds, requiring procedures like open heart surgeries, and complex gastrointestinal treatments. Access to the Hospital’s high-tech theatre simulation room is a particular highlight. Then, for contrast, you could treat tropical diseases like chagas, chikungunya, dengue, river blindness, and West Nile virus in an underfunded hospital more typical of low-resource healthcare systems. Click the ‘ENQUIRE NOW’ button to find out more.

Nursing in MERIDA

The hospitals we’ve partnered with in Merida offer a great range of experiences for nursing students. The first being a notably modern government institution. The patients are the real differentiating factor — most will be from poorer backgrounds, presenting advanced cases and requiring treatments like neurosurgery and complex gastrointestinal procedures. In another hospital, this one notably underfunded, you could work with patients with tropical diseases like chagas, chikungunya and dengue fever. Here, you’ll learn how local staff cope with what limited resources they have. Click the ‘ENQUIRE NOW’ button to find out more.

Midwifery in MERIDA

One of our busy partner hospitals in Merida deals exclusively with young paediatric cases and expectant mothers. With upwards of 150 beds, the wards are uncommonly busy, which means you’ll be able to get a breadth of experience unlike anywhere else. Despite high patient numbers, infant mortality rates have more than halved in the past 20 years — you’ll see the resourcefulness and techniques that helped achieve this. You will, however, still see a number of intrapartum complications such as breech births. Click the ‘ENQUIRE NOW’ button to find out more.

Physiotherapy in Merida

The Physiotherapy Department in the hospital we’re partnered with admits a variety of cases — from everyday strains to severe burns. Alongside a team of local professionals, you’ll help to rehabilitate patients with neurological disorders like stroke and Bell’s palsy, and work-related injuries. In another, more modern partner hospital, you could get experience working with post-surgical patients and those needing respiratory therapy. Click the ‘ENQUIRE NOW’ button to find out more.
 

PARAMEDIC SCIENCE in MERIDA

The hospital you’ll undertake your placement in was first established in 1550, making it the oldest in the city. Most of the city’s emergencies are routed to the A&E department here, so expect it to be busy. Most patients in the adult A&E are economically disadvantaged, and with that comes a lot of trauma resulting from manual labour.

The paediatric A&E is less busy, but you will see a range of cases rushed into the stabilisation room before being referred off to other specialist departments.

Radiography IN MERIDA

It might surprise you to learn that a radiography placement at our partner hospital in Merida involves working with some of the most up-to-date machines and practises found anywhere. The majority of patients will be from impoverished backgrounds, presenting conditions far more advanced than you’ll be used to at home, which will make detecting and diagnosing cases all the more interesting. It’s also possible to get involved in radiotherapy, working with technologies like cobalt therapy and brachytherapy. Click the ‘ENQUIRE NOW’ button to find out more.

Dentistry in MERIDA

Under the supervision of specialists in our partner hospital, you’ll observe and in some cases treat patients with all manner of conditions. 60 percent of people in the country have signs of periodontal disease, reflecting the general state of oral and dental health in the country. Many standard procedures like restorations and fillings are carried out here, however, due to a lack of information around oral hygiene, many patients present late — some cases will be much more severe than you’ll have seen at home. Click the ‘ENQUIRE NOW’ button to find out more.