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Medical Internships in Mexico
Interning on a Medicine & Healthcare internship in Mexico is a fast-paced and exciting experience. As a Medicine & Healthcare intern you will gain a great deal of valuable work experience alongside some of the most skilled and inspirational doctors in the country. The facilities are generally of a good standard with many hospitals that are quite similar to those in the west.
Interns work in city hospitals in Guadalajara. You will spend time working in departments such as gynecology, hematology, obstetrics, pediatrics, pathology, anesthesiology and surgery, with the opportunity to specialize if you wish. Your supervisor can ensure that you work in a variety of areas during your placement, and learn as much as possible about medical and healthcare practice in Mexico.
Doctors and nurses welcome interns with a range of experience, so long as they are enthusiastic and eager to participate. By showing initiative and building a good rapport with your colleagues, you may be able to get very involved with the doctors and patients with whom you are working.
Interns need to speak intermediate level Spanish to join our Mexican Medicine & Healthcare internship. If you are unsure as to whether your Spanish is good enough for the program please give us a call. Many interns who lack confidence in their Spanish language skills join a Teaching, Care or Spanish project before joining their Medicine & Healthcare internship. This gives them the opportunity to brush up their language skills before the medical part of their placement.
Physical Therapy, Nursing and Dentistry Internships in Mexico
If you wish to intern in Mexico with a physical therapist, nurse or dentist then we have a number of internships where you can get some great observational experience. You will be working in Guadalajara, but you could find yourself in a large hospital, a clinic, or even in an HIV center.
Medical Elective Placement Overseas in Mexico
You can do an Elective in Mexico in Medicine, Physical Therapy, Nursing or Dentistry.
If you wish to do your elective in Mexico, you will most likely be working in a large hospital in Guadalajara. You will shadow one of our supervisors who are very experienced at working with western medical and healthcare students. They will be eager to test out your knowledge, as well as give you the benefit of their training and experience.
"I remember my first time helping during a solo operation with the resident, the fear and excitement I felt, and I remember seeing my first perforated appendix. There were times when the resident and I did solo operations while the intern and the head surgeon performed surgery in an adjacent operating room. We saved a lot of time by splitting into teams." Allegra Lobell, Medical Elective intern in Mexico
Outside of the hospital you will live with a local host family, who will provide you with all your meals outside of your normal working hours. When you aren’t at work there is plenty to do in Guadalajara, and our lively, diverse volunteer and intern community means there are always other volunteers around to make friends with.
“I felt privileged to be in the unique position of living with a Mexican family; they brought me into their home and I became one of the family. We would often cook traditional Mexican food together and since my return to London I have tried to capture the essence of Mexican cooking on several occasions.” Olivia Ragla, Medicine & Healthcare intern in Mexico