The last day in Argentina has finally come. I can’t believe this will be the last blog post I will type. This trip was truly one to remember. Today we met with our groups in the morning to practice our presentations. At 1pm we left to go to give our presentations to Dr. Gabriel Novick….
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Dìa Diez: 🫀
Day ten in Buenos Aires was filled with different activities. It was a really fun day. To start off we all met in the lobby at eight am. We went back to Sanatorio Arcos which is a private Swiss medical hospital. We went there a few times before. When we arrived we had a lecture…
Dìa Nueve: Austral
I seriously can’t believe it’s day nine in Argentina. It doesn’t feel like we have been here this long at all and we keep getting closer and closer to coming home but I’m not ready to leave. Today we had an early start at eight am. We went to Austral hospital and Austral University. They…
A Week Already?
Hey guys! I can’t believe it’s already been one week here in Buenos Aires. Today was museum day! Our day started off with a visit to a museum about Eva Peron, the wife of Juan Peron who was the founder of Peronism. Peronism is the political belief and system that Argentina builds off of (people…
Dìa siete: Lujàn y Rodizio Estancia
Hey everyone! I can’t believe it’s already been a week here in Argentina it’s going so fast. Today we didn’t have any lectures and got to enjoy some fresh air. We went to Basilica de Lujàn. It was a little over an hour of a bus ride. Basilica de Lujàn is a Roman Catholic church…
Dìa seis: Tigre
Hello everyone! Today was probably my favorite day so far. We left the hotel at 8:10am to go to Tigre. Tigre is an Argentinean town and it is north of Buenos Aires. It’s main form of transportation is on a boat through the river. Once we arrived to Tigre we got on a boat onto…
Dìa Cinco: La Matanza
Hi everyone! I can’t believe it’s already been 5 days into this trip. It’s crazy how fast the days go. Today we toured a public hospital called Hospital de Agudos Paroissien. Like I mentioned in yesterday’s post health care is a human right in Argentina so everyone gets free health care, unless they would pay…
Dìa cuatro en Argentina
Hey everyone! We made it to day four of the trip. To start the day off our bus didn’t come so we had to ride in separate taxi’s to get to the private hospital that we went to on Monday called Sanatorio Arcos. When we finally arrived at Sanatorio Arcos we then heard a lecture…
Dìa 3
I really enjoyed day three in Buenos Aires. Today was a very long and tiring day but it was also a very informative and productive day. The first thing we did today was we met with the current Deputy Minister of Health of CABA and his name was Dr. Daniel Ferrante. His lecture was very…
Day 2 : Sanatorio Arcos
Today was a very interesting and informative day. We had an early start at 8 in the morning. We had 4 lectures at the private hospital called Sanatorio Arcos. There were four different speakers and one being our very own professor Dr. Grant Martsolf, Dr. Gabriel Novick, Dr. Luis Gimenez, and Dr. Jorge Lantos. Each…
Arrived in Argentina
Hello everyone! I feel so much relief to have finally arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina! Definitely very tiring after having two different flights. It never actually really hit me that we were in Argentina until the bus ride from the airport to the hotel. My first impressions were in the airport. In the airport everyone…
Argentina!
Hey everyone! My name is Miranda Lapham, and I am a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. I am majoring in nursing. On campus, I am on the executive board for SNA (student nurses association). In my free-time I like to workout, walk my 2 dogs, and hangout with friends and family. In…