Top 10 Criteria
- Personal security in the location can be reasonably assured
- Political stability of the country
- Safe housing can be arranged prior to departure
- Easy access to clean food and safe drinking water
- Live within walking distance of the facility or transportation will be available
- Telephone and/or Internet access is available
- Identify a local mentor and communicate with him or her prior to arrival
- Work alongside local health care workers or physicians and have some amount of supervision during the experience
- You will not be expected to care for patients on your own or to take the place of local health care workers
- Communicate with the health care workers in the same language or can make arrangements for an interpreter