Description

This long study tour seeks to combine hands-on experiences with opportunities to derive comparative insight into medical practice across countries. The Berlin portion of the tour has featured a visit to Charité University hospital, which ranks as a leading hospital in Germany. Students have been exposed to leading biomedical research through our visit to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) where world-renowned researchers walk students through their projects.

In Poznan, students spend their mornings shadowing physicians at the university hospital where they are invited into examination rooms and observe procedures first-hand. This part of the tour is particularly enriching because it not only gives students additional clinical experience, but it also highlights many of the challenges faced by post-communist countries and their effect on medical practice.

In both destinations the academic program is supplemented with cultural visits to relevant and exciting sites to help students engage to the fullest extent. In the past, cultural visits have included city bike tours, brewery visits, and performances.