This session will include researching organizations, examining intentions/goals, cross-cultural considerations, clinical guidelines/resources/ algorithms (IMCI/IMAI, etc.) as well as identifying tools for personal safety and ensuring security for overseas work.

1. PREPARING FOR
WORKING OVERSEAS
Tips on how to achieve an enriching
experience
Luisa F. Valbuena

2. DEFINE YOUR PURPOSE
• Conquer the world !
• Have my passport
stamped
• Meet people Minimize the
• Feed the hungry
“IF I HAD . . .”
• Help the poor
• Heal the sick
• Have an adventure

3. TIP : KEEP EXPECTATIONS LOW
“Wish for the best but expect the worse”
MEL BROOKS

4. What should I leave behind?
(In my hometown)
“assumptions”
•
“judgments”
•
“prejudice”
•
“pessimism”
•
“Kitty”
•
GO!

5. TIP: BE AWARE AND CONSCIOUS
Do they sell cocaine over the counter?

6. What should I bring with me ?
Knowledge
•
Humility
•
Passion to learn
•
Moral wisdom
•
Creativity
•
Sense of humor
•
Others
•

7. What should I leave behind?
(the place I visited)
• Sustainable
skills, ideas, proje
cts.
• A desire in people
to have you come
back.
• Friends

8. DONATIONS
Donate things that
people can benefit
from

9. What should I not leave?
• Created
unnecessary needs.
• Unreachable
objectives.
• Garbage.
 Minimize your
ecological footprint

10. WHAT TO EXPECT

11. ITHACA
“As you set out for Ithaca
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled
you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of
experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas
mean.”
K. Kavafis

12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ron Hahn
Claudia Lopez
Christine Riedy
Marisa D’Angeli
Yoram Lapid
All the wonderful people I have had the
blessing and honor to meet