Health Sciences Internships in Belize

Dive into adventure and career growth with award-winning internships in Belize! With Intern Abroad HQ, you can start anytime and choose a flexible duration from 2 to 24 weeks - perfect for fitting around your studies or travel plans. Gain hands-on experience in exciting fields like Animal Science, Business, Environmental Science, Health Science, and more. Every internship is customized to your goals and includes everything you need: guaranteed placement, accommodation, airport pick-up, orientation, 24/7 support, and a reference letter to boost your resume. Whether you're a student, recent grad, or career explorer, you'll join a community of change makers and work alongside passionate, English-speaking professionals - or even practice your Spanish! Intern Abroad HQ offers affordable, accredited programs that can help you earn academic credit while saving thousands on tuition. Make a real impact, gain global experience, and explore Belize’s incredible natural beauty - all in one unforgettable internship adventure.

This internship program is tailored to fulfill your academic requirements and personal and professional learning goals. You can select flexible durations of 3, 4, 6, or 8 weeks. You are then paired with projects that align with your academic requirements, career goals, and personal interests while also supporting local organizations in Belize. Typically, interns work 30-35 hours per week, applying classroom knowledge to real-world challenges in various fields such as education, conservation, entrepreneurship, social service, and other areas as requested. This experience is designed to enhance important employability skills, including collaboration, independence, and intercultural communication. A typical 4-week program includes living with a host family for deep cultural immersion, along with curated excursions focused on cultural, environmental, and historical topics. Enhance your career readiness and earn academic credit through this flexible, hands-on practicum.

During this two-week internship in tropical Belize, you will participate in clinical nursing rotations wherein you shadow Belizean nurses and medical professionals. Spend a week shadowing nurses at hospital facilities in San Ignacio and another week with community health workers from surrounding towns and villages. Develop an understanding of Belize’s health system, gaining an appreciation for what it means to be a health worker in a different social and cultural context. Although a day's work is hard, you enjoy plenty of opportunities to immerse yourself in the culture and natural sights of a multicultural, biodiverse country bordering the Caribbean Sea. In addition to an organized wilderness excursion, you have free time to explore, shop at the town market, get to know fellow interns, and have lots of fun!

This four-week field course explores the intersections of economics, health, medicine, and social development in the tropics—with Belize as the focus. Its objective is to provide students with knowledge and insight into the epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of tropical diseases. Emphasis is placed on the scientific, intercultural, and social aspects of global health, tropical medicine, public health, and ethnobiology in these subjects. Students also examine policy issues and determinants of public health and health policy in international health. They acquire an introduction to tropical infectious diseases and review the strategies used to treat these diseases in resource-limited settings. Finally, they learn to situate health in its wider social, economic, and political context and acquire a basic understanding of the intimate, bi-directional relationship between health and development processes. Instruction focuses on field-based, hands-on learning. Lectures, readings from primary literature, and discussions are also integral components of the program.