¡Hola a todos! As a 4th year medical student , I just got through a long and grueling residency interview season.
Despite traveling non-stop over the past few months, I am in fact sitting in the Miami airport at this very moment, traveling yet again. I’m on my way Quito, Ecuador to participate in a six-week program with Child Family Health International (CFHI), a nongovernmental organization that specializes in providing medical students and residents with global health education programs. I’ll be participating in their Urban and Rural Comparative Health Program, which for me will involve three weeks of clinical rotations in Quito, Ecuador (the capital and Ecuador’s second largest city) and three weeks in Chone (a more rural village close to the Pacific coast).
I chose to go abroad through CFHI for several reasons, including Continue reading