Why Medicine & Physiotherapy Mexico?

Mexico's beauty lies in its effortless grace in combining all of its faces: beautiful hundred-year-old colonial buildings, pristine beaches, mountains and volcanoes and air-conditioned shopping centres.

Mexicans are a deservedly proud people who are eager to show off their often-stereotyped nation. Of course everyone realizes that nowhere on Earth can put on a fiesta like Mexico, but this is just a small part of the larger cultural picture.

Medical Volunteering in Mexico

Projects Abroad is based in the most Mexican city in the world, Guadalajara. Mexico's second city has few foreign tourists so you will be a novelty wherever you go. The city hospitals of Guadalajara offer volunteers the chance to accumulate a wealth of experience in various hospital departments including Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Pathology and Surgery. If you are enthusiastic and motivated the doctors and nurses will be more than happy to give you the benefit of their expertise.

Why Volunteer in a Medical Placement?

The medical projects we organise provide our volunteers with an incredibly interesting and eye opening experience. They are able to observe how the medical process works in a developing country, and more than that, they are actively involved in it.

Those who are looking to study medicine at university will find that by shadowing doctors and watching medical procedures they will learn a great amount on a placement and gain experience that would simply not be possible in their home country. The project is also open to elective students and depending on their level of experience it may be possible to assist on a practical level.

The doctors and nurses with whom the volunteers work really enjoy the cultural exchange that is brought by the volunteers and are more than happy for you to be involved in most aspects of their work in the hospital. This placement should be used as a wonderful opportunity to question doctors who are very willing to share their expertise and knowledge.