A bittersweet day as it was our last day in Buenos Aires. I’ve had an amazing time exploring this amazing city, learning about their cultures, and obviously learning about their healthcare system. For our last full day, we slept in a bit and then had presentations for each of our sectors. I loved listening to…

We had a very exciting morning as we didn’t have to be anywhere until 1:30 today, which was a very nice break from having to meet at 8 am. So we decided to sleep in a little bit and then head over to La Boca which is a neighborhood here in Buenos Aires. We had…

We had our last full day of lectures and hospital visits today! It has been so interesting getting to compare the different systems in Argentina and getting to see how those systems work in the hospitals. Our first stop today was at the public hospital Paroissien. We met with both the administration of the hospital…

Today we started our day with a lecture with Dr. Florencia Ledesma who is the health innovation manager of Medife. Medife is a company that owns an insurance company that is also called Medife and the union (or Obra social) ASE. This lecture was very interesting since a big part of it was a Q&A…

This morning we got up nice and early for an hour and a half bus ride over to another campus for Universidad Austral. We grabbed a quick breakfast and headed into the first two lectures of the day. We learned how the hospital at Austral is funded and the different goals and challenges that the…

We started our day with a walking tour of Buenos Aires, which was really cool since we got to see parts of the city that we hadn’t been to yet. Our tour guide brought us around to multiple different palaces/mansions that were absolutely beautiful. A lot of these mansions have been turned into either embassies…

This morning we started our day with an hour’s drive to the ranch of Don Silvano. When we first arrived we were met by the lady in charge of the ranch as well as many mosquitoes. Mosquitoes have been swarming us the entire trip but today was the worst of it. We didn’t let that…

Today took a detour from our plans. We were supposed to have a boat tour and another hospital visit but Buenos Aires had a general strike today. This strike is in response to President Milei who cut spending, laid off government workers, and froze public works to save Argentina from its financial crisis in his…

This morning we began our day by heading back over to Austral for our lecture. This morning’s lecture was presented by the former Minister of Health for the province of Salta. Salta is a province on the poorer side and does not have easy access to healthcare. During her talk, Dr. Josefina Medrano talked about…

Welcome back!! We started our day with another lecture by the Minister of Health for the city of Buenos Aires. It was incredibly interesting to learn about how the different segments of healthcare work in the city of Buenos Aires from the head of city health. During our lecture, he talked about the 34 hospitals…

Even though this is technically our second day after having some travel issues and spending the night in the Atlanta airport the first real day in Argentina has been great! When we got in last night we were greeted by the IES coordinators and given our first taste of Argentina, Alfajores, two cookies with caramel…

Hello! My name is Abby Johns and I’m from Chappaqua, New York (it’s about 40 minutes outside New York City). I am a first-year nursing student at the University of Pittsburgh. I’m involved in the campus Nursing Student Association (NSA) and joined the sorority Alpha Delta Pi. I plan on graduating with my BSN, planning…