| MEDICO Mission Team Application
Completing this application is the first step toward participating
in a MEDICO medical mission team. If you are accepted, MEDICO will
contact you and request additional documentation and payment.
The following links provide more information about participating
on a MEDICO team:
- Calendar - Trip dates and which applications
MEDICO is currently accepting
- Documents - Paperwork MEDICO requires from each participant
prior to departure
- Payment - Costs and payment schedule
- Code of Conduct - Standards of conduct for
healthcare professionals and for all volunteers
- FAQs - Answers to frequently asked questions
If you are selected for a team...
| Documents
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Application form.
If you are selected for a team, you will need to submit the
following documentation
- A copy of the photo page of your passport
- For healthcare professionals
- a copy of your current professional license
- a copy of your medical/professional diploma
- Signed waiver. To display a printer-friendly copy of the
waiver with Adobe Acrobat Reader, click
here. If you do not already have Acrobat Reader, click
here to download
To ensure that documents are clean and readable, we cannot
accept faxed copies. Please send documents by mail or scan
and send them by email to the following address
MEDICO, Inc.
2955 Dawn Drive, Suite D
Georgetown, TX 78628
information@medico.org
512-930-1893 voice
MEDICO is required to provide copies of medical/professional
licenses and diplomas for all healthcare professionals participating
on a team to the Ministry of Health of the host country in
Central America.
Payment
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Application form.
Trip participation fee is $700.00 as of January 2009.
If you are selected to a team, you will be asked to provide
a non-refundable $100 deposit within two weeks to hold your
spot. Your airfare and trip fee payments are due approximately
60 days before the trip. MEDICO will notify you of the exact
due dates. If your payment is not received by the specified
dates, MEDICO will apply a $25 late fee and may cancel your
participation on the trip.
For your trip payments - you can pay by either:
- Check: Please send payment to the above
address. Be sure to note:
- Name of the individual(s) this payment is for
- Address
- The trip this payment covers
- Credit card or electronic
check: There is a 2.6% processing fee for electronic
trip payments, so your cost will be slightly higher than
if paying by check
Registration
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Application form.
For safety reasons, the U.S. Department of State recommends
registration of all individuals and organizations traveling
to Central America from the United States. MEDICO provides
this information for all team members, regardless of citizenship.
Code
of Conduct
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All Volunteers
- The humanitarian imperative comes first.
- Aid is given regardless of the race, creed, or nationality
of the recipients and without adverse distinction of any
kind. Aid priorities are calculated on the basis of need
alone.
- We shall endeavor not to act as instruments of partisan
politics.
- We shall respect culture and custom.
- We shall attempt to build our work on local capacities.
- Ways shall be found to involve program beneficiaries in
the management of aid.
- Aid must strive to reduce future vulnerabilities as well
as meeting basic needs.
- We hold ourselves accountable to both those we seek to
assist and those from whom we accept resources.
- In our information, publicity and advertising activities,
we shall recognize recipients as dignified human beings.
Medical Professionals
Volunteer health professionals will practice within their
scope of practice and within the licensing guidelines of their
home jurisdictions. Professionals mentoring students or residents
in training will do so in the same manner as in their home
settings.
General treatment goals are the following, while specifics
may vary from team to team:
- To provide treatment for acute medical problems, such
as infectious diseases, injuries, and chronic problems such
as headache, stomach ache, and back pain.
- To provide treatment for chronic conditions like hypertension
and diabetes when that care can be done safely and, if possible,
in the context of ongoing care in the Central American system.
- To utilize the limited formulary based on evidence-based
medicine. We will use medications that are part of the Central
American formulary whenever possible.
- To provide education as an integral part of each team's
mission.
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