A Typical day

Monday – Thursday

7.00 am – 7.30 am

Breakfast with your homestay family

7.30 am – 8.00 am

Collected from your homestay and taken to your medical facility.

8.00 am – 12.00 pm

Begin work at your hospital or clinic. Your time will be spent shadowing and working with the doctors and health care professionals on your chosen rotation. 

You will then be collected from the medical facility and dropped off at your homestay or the city center, depending on where you choose to have lunch.

12.30 pm  – 2.00 pm

Lunch at your homestay family. Participants often use this time to go to the gym, which is included in the program and is just a few minutes walk from your homestay family.

1.45 pm

Walk to the elective center for the medical Spanish program

2.00 pm – 6.00 pm

The medical Spanish program in Trujillo takes place at our Electives Center, a few minutes’ walk from homestay family accommodation.  The program includes general Spanish and medical Spanish classes with our professional language teachers. The Medical Spanish classes are designed to enable you to effectively communicate with patients and colleagues in a health care environment.

Classes are fun and interactive with full use of role-playing and games.  By rotating language teachers each hour, the intensive language program is broken down into manageable parts.

6.00 pm and beyond

At the end of Spanish classes, participants often eat together at one of the many good cafes and restaurants nearby or may choose to participate in their chosen activity included in our program – Gym or Salsa.

Fridays

On Fridays, we hold weekly community health fairs.  Typically all program participants get involved.  The health fairs usually have a 7.30 am start, with the health fairs finishing around 1 pm.  On these days, classes begin in the afternoons at 3.30 pm, and we include an activity, such as a pisco sour drink class.