Ambulance Placements for Healthcare Professionals

Clinical Ambulance Placements for Healthcare Professionals

SOS Medical Services offers clinical placements for healthcare professionals (HCPs) in Guatemala CIty, Guatemala.

As a private medical company, registered with the Ministry of Health, SOS provides frontline emergency ambulance services, inter-facility transports and community primary care services.

For registered healthcare professionals, the placements provide an opportunity for continuing professional development, and cross-cultural learning. For students studying a healthcare professions course (EMT, FREC, nurse, paramedic), the supervised placements support portfolio development: clinical hours, supervised practice, reflective practice and an opportunity to discuss constructive feedback with a senior clinical mentor.

In recent years a range of HCPs and organisations have benefitted from our placements, including EMT, FREC and paramedic students, first responders, remote medics from media organisations, London Ambulance Service and medical students from UK, Slovakia and Singapore.

Clinical oversight is provided by our local Medical Director and the SOS Founder, a UK HCPC registered paramedic. Daily support and supervision is afforded by our EMTs, doctors and paramedics (registered with HCPC, AREMT, IPR and Guatemalan Ministerio de Salud).

What’s Included:

• Airport transfers from Guatemala City to hotel

• Hotel accommodation (if selected)

• Breakfast, lunch, dinner while on shift (if selected)

• Daily transport to ambulance station

• Uniform: Polo shirt

• Printed portfolio of evidence

What’s not included:

• Airfare

• Travel and health insurance

Costs

• GBP 350 per week (without food & accomodation)

• GBP 750 per week (including food & accommodation)

Additional Opportunities

• On-site medical Spanish language lessons with personal tutor: GBP 50 per 2-hour session.

• When available, HCPs can support the SOS team during medical missions/remote clinics for underserved communities in rural Guatemala (GBP 400 for 3-days: 2-day clinic; 3-days food & accommodation).

• CPD Courses:

  • Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) (NAEMT)

  • Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) (NAEMT)

  • Wilderness Life Support for Medical Professionals (WLS:MP) (Adventure Med)

  • Rescue Expedition & Disaster Medicine (RED MED) course

For more information or to arrange a placement, please complete the contact form below: