Starting a MEDLIFE chapter takes real work: getting your school’s approval, recruiting an executive board, running fundraisers, and keeping the whole thing going after you graduate. That’s work that can…
If you’re thinking about volunteering abroad with MEDLIFE, you probably want to know what the week actually looks like, and who better to tell you than people who have actually…
Wanting to spend your break doing something useful abroad is a good instinct. But not every trip that calls itself service actually serves the community it visits. “Voluntourism” is the…
If you’re in high school, you’ve probably heard a few different numbers regarding community service hours: 40 hours, 75 hours, 100 hours. The honest answer to how many community service…
Clear communication between patients and providers is the basis of safe, accurate, and fair care. When they don’t share a language, important information can get lost, and patients may leave…
Time away from campus doesn’t have to mean a vacation, though that’s a perfectly good choice. Some Canadian undergraduates, especially pre-health and public health majors, want their time abroad to…
If you’re searching for ways to work with underserved communities abroad, you’ll probably start to run into three terms over and over: volunteering, mission trips, and service learning. They can…
The short answer on travel insurance for volunteering abroad with MEDLIFE is that it’s already taken care of: every SLT trip fee includes travel insurance. Your MEDLIFE SLT includes emergency…
If you’re in high school and thinking about pursuing a career in health care, you’ve probably started looking into medical summer programs for high school students. There are a lot of…
Time abroad as a student can simply just be a vacation, and that’s a reasonable choice. But if you’re interested pre-health or public health and want your time abroad to mean…
If you’re on the pre-health track or studying public health, you’ve probably noticed that the term “global health” gets used rather loosely. Sometimes it means a medical mission trip; sometimes…
Between course loads, part-time jobs, labs, group projects, and bustling personal lives, most Canadian undergrads today don’t have the spare time to fit in a service trip abroad. If you’re…
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