A Wrinkle In Time could well describe our Guatemala 2020 medical trip. In late February our medical team left behind our customary lifestyles in the USA to offer clinics in Guatemala sponsored by Hands for Health Foundation and Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. When we returned three weeks later, accustomed sights had morphed into the surreal. We encountered the CLOSED, CANCELED, and SUSPENDED. In medical offices, which were fast becoming virtual, the dreaded C-word for disease—Cancer-- had ceded first place to Coronavirus.

Sights and insights abounded in the 2019 Guatemala trip in March 2-10. Team members included a first-year student who described collaboration among fellow medical students as well as a sense of being daunted and undaunted

By: Carol Sullivan

Osteopaths may share a surprising kinship with Lakotas when it comes to a holistic view of health. Second-year RVU medical students on the trip, who numbered ten, made these medical and cultural observations.

By: Carol Sullivan

On the school global outreach trip to Guatemala, a particularly difficult patient encounter allowed me to reflect on my fears and anxieties about entering the clinical years of my medical education.

By: Alexandra Lee

Statistics are slippery—they can describe, decry, and defy what is happening. At a recent two-day health fair on Pine Ridge Reservation, an RVU medical team offered screening and education for health issues. The number of persons who came to the health fair was small, but the team has been invited to return September 1-2, 2018. What happened?

By: Carol Sullivan

Medical students aboard a chicken bus in Ecuador—What do you get?

By: Carol Sullivan

Dive into the cases directly from our volunteers.