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Do I need to have medical training to be a volunteer?

No, we’ve had lots of volunteers with no formal medical training. Volunteers with no medical background usually carry out new or ongoing projects at the clinic. Among many other accomplishments, past non-medical volunteers have designed a sexual education program, implemented a vaccination campaign, developed a diabetes and hypertension program, performed a health needs assessment, helped coordinate patient care in Santa Cruz and work in the pharmacy. In addition to health programming, volunteers have also tutored local children in English, built a children’s library at the clinic, kick start a solar energy project, film a documentary and fundraise for the clinic. Our volunteers have had pre-med, public health, social work, education, engineering, film and IT backgrounds or simply have had an interest in health, Bolivia and helping underserved communities.

The Clinic Coordinator

The Clinic Coordinator is one of our most important positions as they help run the show at Centro Medico. The Clinic Coordinator coordinates our US medical and non-medical volunteers during their stay at the clinic, helps arrange patient care at the local hospitals when the needs of our patients go beyond the scope of the clinic, and maintain and develop our community health programs and projects.

Our Volunteers

Featured Volunteer from Abroad

Lavinia Sinitean

June 2006- August 2006

As an ambitious college junior at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL, Lavinia Sinitean spent the summer of 2006 at Centro Medico investigating iodine levels of the local population. Read more about Lavinia...

Volunteer Blog: An Exerpt

Blogs, blogs, blogs! What are we going to do with all of these Blogs?!

posted by Mike September 8, 2007

People are really starting to rave about my blogs. I'm even keeping my fingers crossed for some sponsors! Possibly from Fingers Crosserstm which is a global chain of restaurants where they serve finger foods and hang finger related things on the walls.

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Featured Local Volunteer

Ibania Justiano

I am Ibania and am 19 years old. I am finishing my last year of high school. Every day I wake up early, go to school and then go to the clinic where I have been training for 5 years. At the clinic, I distribute medicine, check blood pressure and blood sugar levels and perform urine analyses and pregnancy tests. I want to go to medical school, specialize in gynecology and return to work at the clinic.