Giving Tuesday
Medical Trips
InterVol’s Volunteer Medical Professionals program (VMP) partners with primary care clinics and hospitals to facilitate medical consultation and treatment in areas where access to care is limited. We work to build networks of care to assist those most in need, both in person and via remote, technologically-supported link-ups.
Logistics
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Credentialing is provided by InterVol
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Travel, hotel and car rentals are booked by InterVol
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Breakfast and dinner are usually included in cost
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Our teams travel together and stay at the same hotel
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Personnel, including translators, are assigned to their location by local personnel
Requirements
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In case of emergency contact information
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Two letters of recommendation
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Notarized copy of your passport
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Notarized copy of your degree/diploma
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COVID-19 vaccination card based on location
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Resume/CV
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Background Check
Cost
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Highly variable; we do our best to keep it as low as possible
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What you pay to InterVol covers:
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Airfare
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Hotel including breakfast and dinner
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Ground transportation
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Expenses not covered by InterVol:
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Water, lunch, and snacks
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Leisure activities
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Souvenirs
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Any additional charges for extended travel time or alternate travel dates
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*Please note: Our trips are working trips. Due to limited space and long work days, guests are not permitted to travel outside of the group.
Belize
For nearly 20 years, InterVol has traveled to Dangriga, Belize, a small, community in the southern part of this Central American country. Over the years, these trips have included both trained professionals that have provided valuable and much-needed medical care as part of our VMP program, and volunteer students.
Personnel needed for each trip vary, depending on the needs expressed by our Belizean partners. The most frequent requests are for general practitioners, women’s health, and dentistry. In addition, specialties such as oncology and ophthalmology are also needed.
Clinical experiences are split between advanced services at Southern Regional Hospital and basic healthcare checks and referrals at daily clinics in outlying rural communities
Haiti
Léogâne is a coastal city just 18 miles west of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. With the country's infrastructure still recovering from the earthquake in January of 2010, it takes over an hour by car to travel those 18 miles from the capital.
Our Haiti medical trips are focused on supporting the needs of Hôpital Sainte Croix. Many surgeries performed are due to lymphatic filariasis. These lifechanging surgeries improve the lives of those already afflicted. As such, personnel most needed are surgeons trained in hydrocele repair, anesthesiologists, and operating room nurses and technicians.
Clinical experience consists of advanced surgical services at Hôpital Sainte Croix, as well as peri- and postnatal services to support the thousands of mothers served by Klinik Lasante Léogâne
Beyond
Over the last 30 years, our teams have traveled to several destinations that lack adequate access to care in order to provide medical consultation and treatment.
A partnership with the Lakota Sioux of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Rosebud, South Dakota was built and for years, our teams traveled providing care right here in the United States. Beyond providing desperately needed healthcare services, our teams also aided in the creation of training and continuing education opportunities for hospital staff.
By continually seeking partnership opportunities with communities in need, we are working toward our mission of connecting the world's neediest with materials, people, and opportunities.