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 – 12.30 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 spend most of your time interacting with patients. The level of your participation will be agreed upon with the responsible doctor at the facility.
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 – 2.30 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.
2.30 pm – 6.30 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.
If you are not taking Spanish classes, you have the option to spend more time on your clinical placement during the afternoons.
6.30 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.
Morning Classes
For participants taking the intensive medical Spanish program for part or all of their time with us, morning classes take place from 9 am – 12 noon.
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.
Weekends
During the weekends, program participants are free to explore Trujillo and the surrounding areas. The seaside resort of Huanchaco is just 20 minutes away. As are the fascinating Archaeological sites Chan Chan and Las Huacas del Sol y la Luna.
Most participants travel during at least one weekend. The most popular destination is Huaraz, which boasts the best trekking in the Peruvian Andes, with clear blue lakes and glaciers. Others prefer investigating the beaches around Mancora.
For more information, please take a look at some of our recent Participant Testimonials