🌍 Global Health Impact Presents 🌍

Rural Reach: Clinical Insight & Global Health Experience

An international, group trip designed for pre-PA, premed, and nursing students seeking meaningful patient exposure, cultural awareness, and real-world global health experience.
 

Why Join Us in Roatan?

✨ Build Clinical Confidence

Gain hands-on experience in rural medicine while shadowing and assisting healthcare professionals across multiple clinical settings.

🌎 Strengthen Your Global Health Lens

Understand the realities of healthcare delivery in underserved communities and learn how cultural, social, and economic factors shape patient care.

🤝 Serve With Purpose

Make a tangible impact through community education, school outreach, maternal health support, and participation in meaningful local health initiatives.

What You’ll Experience

• Participate in clinical care in community clinics, urgent care, and primary care settings

• Learn how rural medicine functions with limited resources

• Teach health and wellness lessons 

• Support maternal health through prenatal and postpartum outreach

• Learn directly from Honduran clinicians about their practice and community health challenges

• Engage in community-building and education 

• Build lifelong friendships and experience the culture and beauty of Roatan

Trip Cost: $2,400

Includes:
✓ Airfare
✓ Housing
✓ All Meals
✓ Ground Transportation
✓ Clinic Supplies
✓ Travel Insurance

📅 Trip Itinerary

Saturday – Arrival & Welcome

• Arrive in Roatan

• Transfer to lodging

• Evening: Orientation, team introduction, safety briefing, and welcome dinner

Sunday – Cultural Immersion

• Attend a local community church service

• Cultural reflection and group discussion

• Dinner together at the team house

Monday, Wednesday & Thursday – Clinical Care Rotations

Students rotate through hospital specialties:

• Community Clinic: Primary care, chronic conditions, triage skills

• Urgent Care: Acute complaints, procedures (observation), basic first-aid assistance

• Peds and Women's Health: Maternal health support, newborn care assistance (non-clinical), patient education

Clinical responsibilities are observation- and support-based to ensure safety and align with student training levels.

Tuesday – School Health Education Day

• Visit two local schools

• Deliver one interactive, student-designed health lesson

• Learn from teachers and community leaders about Roatan’s youth health needs

Friday – Island Adventure Day

• Snorkeling excursion on a private island

• Lunch provided

• Relaxation, reflection, and celebration after a week of meaningful service

Saturday – Departure

• Final reflection meeting and packing

• Transfer to the airport

• Departure from Roatan