International Service Learning: Experiential Medical Education

This podcast will highlight the values of international service learning study abroad trips taken by healthcare focused faculty and students. Guests will include healthcare focused students and faculty, from high school to university, that have had an opportunity to participate in an international service-learning trip, as well as healthcare professionals that have served abroad. Additionally, we will have guests that are industry leaders in healthcare, education, study abroad, spirituality, and service as well as those living in the countries being served. Through our "passionate conversations about healthcare experiences", both internationally and locally, we hope to motivate and inspire others to consider participating in an international service-learning trip ... which might lead to a future career in healthcare.

Podcasting since 2025 • 26 episodes

International Service Learning: Experiential Medical Education

Latest Episodes

Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone Changed How I See Medicine

A patient waits weeks with a worsening cough, trying herbal tea because a clinic is hard to reach and a hospital visit can cost an entire day of work. That single reality drives so much of what we explore with Leah, a University of South Caroli...

May 18, 2026 • 29:39

Public Health & Service Learning: A Pathway to Internal Medicine

A four-hour drive should not be the difference between a routine fix and a life-altering outcome, but in many places it is. We sit down with Austin, a graduating medical student about to start internal medicine residency, to talk through the mo...

May 11, 2026 • 37:36

Safe Care, Far From Home

Want to help without harming? We sit down with Dr. Patrick Hickey—nurse, educator, author, and veteran leader in international service learning—to map the real work behind ethical global health volunteering. From the first country risk check to...

May 04, 2026 • Season 1 • 30:43

A Fourth Year Medical Student’s Global Health Experience In Belize

You can feel the moment a clinician realizes the test they want simply doesn’t exist. That’s where our conversation with Rafik goes, and it’s why his reflections on Belize stay with us long after the trip ends.We sit down with Rafik, a ...

April 27, 2026 • Season 1 • 27:18

A Gap Year Service Learning Trip To Belize Confirms a Future as an MD

A blood pressure of 200 over 100. A patient who listens, then calmly says he’s fine and leaves. Moments like that force you to wrestle with the part of medicine no textbook can solve: culture, faith, autonomy, and what it really means to help. ...

April 20, 2026 • 37:16