We finished our final day of exploring Argentina’s healthcare system with eye-opening tours of one public and one private hospital. We met with medical leaders and gathered information to finish our presentations on Argentina’s entire healthcare system. To begin the day, we went to Austral University to meet with Dr. Josefina Medrano who was…
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The Privilege of Care
This morning began with a meeting at the offices of Medifé, one of Argentina’s leading private health insurers, now known as a Health Insurance Agent. We met with Dr. Florencia Ledesma, the company’s current Health Innovation manager. She gave us an introduction to the company and its priorities, as well as diving into the current…
Spirits and Souvenirs
Today was the perfect start to our final week in Buenos Aires! Due to the itinerary getting all messed up from the rainy weather the past few days, we had lots of free time in the morning. A group of us decided to revisit the colorful and beautiful neighborhood of La Boca to do some…
From Healthcare to History
Unfortunately, it was rainy again today for our seventh day. Fortunately, we had a much shorter day and we’re able to finally catch up on sleep. We began our morning with a lecture from Gabriel Novack at the IES abroad center. Gabriel Novack was the former Minister of Health, and he currently directs one of…
A Day of Dialogue
Over the course of the day, starting at 9 am and ending around 4 pm, we found ourselves moving quickly between conversations with current government officials, labor leaders, and a former Minister of Health. Each of these meetings offered us a different and unique window into Argentina’s public healthcare landscape. We ended the long day…
Hospitals and Heartbeats from the Nurses POV
Today we were given the opportunity to get a look behind the scenes of a large and vital public hospital which included sitting down with doctors and administrators to discuss the inner workings of the hospital, observing future nurses in action, and then unpacking it all with our classmates through a discussion roundtable. However, we…
Bus Stops and Brush Strokes
Just like the rest of the days on the trip thus far, we hit the ground running bright and early. We started with a bus tour of the city of Buenos Aires. We visited some of the major neighborhoods surrounding the city, including La Boca, Caminito, and San Telmo. These neighborhoods were all very bright,…
Between Currents and Crisis
Changing up our form of transportation today, we took a boat ride to visit the public hospital of Tigre! On the way to the public hospital, we were greeted with beautiful scenery surrounding the Sarmiento river’s edges. This was the first hospital of the trip that we visited that was part of the public sector,…
A Dose of Austral
Today started bright and early with about an hour-long bus ride to the University of Austral in Pilar. At the University we were greeted by a delicious breakfast before jumping into the first guest speaker lecture of the trip. During this lecture, led by an alumni of the university’s first nursing class and a teacher/former…
Touchdown in Argentina 🛬🇦🇷
Day 1 was definitely a success and ran very smoothly, offering us a lot of free time in the evening to truly explore the city! Our day started off bright and early as we took a red eye flight which put us at the airport in Buenos Aires around 9:30 this morning. Once we landed,…
Hasta la vista, Pittsburgh. Hola, Buenos Aires!
Hello everyone! My name is Gabby Barresi and I just finished my first year in the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. I am very excited to leave my hometown, Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to spend the next 2 weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina! During my time at Pitt, I’ve joined a few clubs…