Alternative Spring Break to Costa Rica
Application Deadline: Mon., Dec. 14
Are you a pre-medical, pre-veterinary, pre-dental, pre-nursing, medical, dental or nursing student at Columbia University? Do you want to spend nine days in Costa Rica over spring break learning more about your profession and getting hands-on experience while helping communities in need?
Trip Dates: March 13-21, 2010
Trip Details
The group will visit Cartago and Turrialba where clinics will be set-up in various locations such as schools and churches.
Trip Experience Video
About the Organization
VIDA is an exciting not-for-profit humanitarian volunteer program that offers hands–on, eye-opening and mind-enriching international volunteer experiences to students of medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. We offer unparalleled volunteer experiences for those who want to learn about medicine, discover new cultures and share with those less fortunate while providing free health services to improve the quality of life of impoverished people and of animals in Central America.
Cost
-Application Fee: $100 due by 12/14/09
-Total: $1,395; Deposit: $500 due by 12/14/09
-Price includes: ground transportation; airport pick up/drop off; lodging; bilingual, health professionals; guides; interpreters; supplies/materials for clinics; most meals and tours; Not included: airfare or the application fee of $100)
More Information
Contact
Rachelle Meyer
rdm2110@columbia.edu
Postbac Premed Program student
VIDA Campus Coordinator for Columbia University*
*This is not a Columbia University sponsored trip.
Are you a pre-medical, pre-veterinary, pre-dental, pre-nursing, medical, dental or nursing student at Columbia University? Do you want to spend nine days in Costa Rica over spring break learning more about your profession and getting hands-on experience while helping communities in need?
Trip Dates: March 13-21, 2010
Trip Details
The group will visit Cartago and Turrialba where clinics will be set-up in various locations such as schools and churches.
Trip Experience Video
About the Organization
VIDA is an exciting not-for-profit humanitarian volunteer program that offers hands–on, eye-opening and mind-enriching international volunteer experiences to students of medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. We offer unparalleled volunteer experiences for those who want to learn about medicine, discover new cultures and share with those less fortunate while providing free health services to improve the quality of life of impoverished people and of animals in Central America.
Cost
-Application Fee: $100 due by 12/14/09
-Total: $1,395; Deposit: $500 due by 12/14/09
-Price includes: ground transportation; airport pick up/drop off; lodging; bilingual, health professionals; guides; interpreters; supplies/materials for clinics; most meals and tours; Not included: airfare or the application fee of $100)
More Information
Contact
Rachelle Meyer
rdm2110@columbia.edu
Postbac Premed Program student
VIDA Campus Coordinator for Columbia University*
*This is not a Columbia University sponsored trip.