I can’t believe our trip has already come to an end. I can’t even begin to express how happy and grateful I am to have been able to experience this with all these amazing people. I have learned so much about the Argentine healthcare system and Argentine culture overall over the past 12 days, and…
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Immigration Station
Today, we got to sleep in for the first time in a while. After a nice breakfast, we boarded a bus and headed to the Museo de los Inmigrantes, which is similar to Ellis Island in New York. We got to have a tour of the museum and we learned a lot about immigration into…
Pitt of South America
Today, we woke up bright and early to travel to La Matanza, a town in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. We began our day by meeting up with some nursing students from Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, which is a local public university, meaning that it is free for all students who attend. After we…
Medife and Malba
We started today with a lecture from Dra. Flor Ledesma, innovations director of Medife, a company that has both private insurance, hospital locations, and a union. She told us about how the company was organized and clarified some of our questions about the overall structure of the healthcare system of Argentina. She was telling us…
Viva Evita
Today we had our second day of cultural visits. We started the day with a tour of Retiro and Recoleta, two of the central neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. We got to see some of the historic palaces and neat architecture of the buildings in Buenos Aires. The tour guide was telling us that many of…
Private Parts
Today began with an early rise so we could board a bus and head to Universidad de Austral’s main campus in Pilar, about an hour and a half from Buenos Aires. I slept on the bus so that I would be able to stay awake during our lectures, though not to much success. We went…
King Grant
Unfortunately, today our event was canceled due to a nationwide strike. Luckily, we were still able to learn. We began our day by holding a discussion with our professor Grant Martsolf. We discussed what we have learned so far about the health care system of Argentina. We discussed a lot about the differences between the…
Swiss Cheese
Today, we continued to learn more about the sectors of the Argentine healthcare system. We began the day with a lecture from Dra. Josefina Medrano who was the minister of health for the province of Salta. Salta is located in the northern portion of the country and is further inland which has very rugged and…
Tarjeta with no Credito
Today, we had two lectures about the ministry of health of the city of Buenos Aires and about the obras sociales, which are workers unions in Argentina and are very important. The first lecture was in Bueno Aires’ city hall where we heard from Daniel Ferrante about how the ministry of health functions at the…
Bienvenido a Buenos Aires
Our first day was good. It felt nice to finally be in Argentina after being stranded in Atlanta the night before and having to deal with other travel issues. I didn’t know what to expect when we were arriving in Buenos Aires, but I was pleasantly surprised. The city felt like a mix of Europe…
Introduction- Peter Gaffney
I am a freshman in the school of nursing at Pitt and I am doing Plus3 Argentina. I am from West Chester, PA. In my free time, I like to go to the gym, watch TV, and hangout with friends. I hope to go into critical care nursing in the ICU and eventually into nursing…