Pre-Med Costa Rica Course: Wilderness Medicine & Global Health | University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Costa Rica
- San José
About Program
Want to escape your generic pre-med classes? Interested in emergency medicine, humanitarian relief work, wilderness medicine, or global health? Want to travel abroad and gain real-world medical experience? This class is for you!
Come explore the beautiful Pacific coast of Costa Rica and learn from physicians who work around the world. Adventure through jungles, earn your WFR and global health certifications, and take part in real-world medical training as you build your resume, network, and your travelogue.
Taught by faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, nearly two week, hands-on introduction to emergency, wilderness, and global health medicine class. In addition to gaining hands-on experience, students will get to know successful medical school faculty and physicians, and get the inside scoop on the medical school application process and a career in healthcare.
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Program Highlights
- Earn your Wilderness First Responder (WFR) and global health certifications. (If you are an EMT and looking to get a W- EMT our WFR course serves as a bridge course to W-EMT.)
- Participate in authentic, scenario-based learning designed to teach the skills necessary to prevent, assess, and treat a variety of backcountry or disaster response
- Learn about careers in medicine from CU Medical School faculty. Get the inside scoop on how to be a more competitive applicant for health professions schools.
- Learn about Emergency Medicine from EM specialists.
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Location
Costa Rica is known for its Pura Vida lifestyle and San José is a great place to get familiar with the lifestyle. One of the best ways to discover San José is through the arts; whether you like theatre, dance, or music, this is the quickest way to the heart of Costa Rica.
