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The LC LIMA (SOCIEM-USMP) looks forward to meet you in Lima, the city known as the City of the Kings!
Are you ready for a clash of modern lifestyle and cultural heritage?
Are you ready to try Suspiro a la Limeña?
Are you ready to discover the capital of Peru?
Are you ready for dancing Vals Criollo?
Pack your bag and fasten seatbelt for the Experience Lima!
Lima / SOCIEM-USMP
Lima is the capital city of Peru, and its largest and most populous city. Located on the central coast of this country, along the Pacific Ocean, forming a continuous urban area extends over the river valleys Chillón, Rimac and Lurin, within the provinces of Lima, headquarters, and Callao. It was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, as the "City of Kings." It was the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the Spanish regime and after independence it became the capital of the Republic of Peru.
Lima, the Pearl of America and three times crowned King City is a metropolis in constant growth. Mixing tradition and modernity, the Peruvian capital, today is the product of a rich fusion of cultures and customs that reflect the character of citizens of the many regions that make up Peru, and those foreigners living in our country.
The Peruvian capital, is home to over 7 million people, focusing almost two thirds of economic activity and industrial Peru. The City of Kings is full of magic and color. Thanks to its historical legacy was declared Cultural Patrimony of Humanity.
SOCIEM-USMP is the society of medical students at the San Martin de Porres University. The university is located in Av. Alameda del Corregidor 1531,Urb.Los Sirius, las viñas, La Molina.
Climate
The climate in Lima is quite peculiar. Apart from its high levels of humidity and low precipitation, surprised by its strange features despite being located in a tropical 12 degrees south latitude and almost at sea level. The central coast of Peru shows a series of microclimates due to the atypical and influential cold Humboldt current which originates from the Antarctica, the nearness of the mountains and the tropical location, giving Lima a subtropical climate, desert and humid at the same time. You could say that Lima's climate is warm tropical, without excessive heat or cold extremes that require heating to at home. The average annual temperature is 18.5 to 19 ° C with a maximum annual summer about 29 ° C. Summer, December to April, with temperatures ranging between 28 and 21 ° C. Winters range from mid-June to September with temperatures ranging between 19 and 12 ° C, 8 ° C being the lowest temperature recorded historically. The months of spring and autumn (September, October and May) are mild temperatures ranging between 23 and 17ºC. Furthermore, the relative humidity is very high (100%), leading to persistent fog in June and December until the summer when the clouds are lower. It was sunny, hot and humid in summer (December-April), cloudy and mild in winter (June to September).
Brief History
The San Martín de Porres University traces its origins to the Institute Pro-Deo, a house dedicated to the cultivation of philosophy and theology founded the Dr. RP Vicente Sanchez Valer the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Shortly after Pope John XXIII raised to the altars to the Blessed Martin de Porres Fray Velásquez of the Dominican Order of Peru, the University was founded under the advocation of the new saint, the May 17, 1962.
In the early years created the first Institutes (Philosophy and journalists, among others, and then added other careers (accounting, law). In the seventies, the University City`s land was acquired in the district of Santa Anita and, in the eighties were strengthened foundations of what today would be the great San Martín de Porres University. The nineties were successful for the development of our university; Our university built modern faculties of Medicine, Architecture and Engineering, Dentistry and Law.
This commitment has made it the university that has invested in Information Technology with over 10,000 computers in 16 campus completely interconnected. For example the Faculty of Medicine highlights the Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Biology, devoted to studies of international standard in virtual education was a resounding success by engaging more than one thousand physicians around the world in the first update course offered by the School of Medicine in conjunction with other faculties.
In over 45 years of community service, the San Martin de Porres University has reached its own merits, a special place in the Peruvian educational system. Today is a modern institution which has 9 faculties offering eighteen careers, 1 school (post-12 sections), 3 doctorates, more than thirty thousand students and 2,500 workers, including teachers and administrative expenses. Is Peru's largest university and ranks among the top two private universities in the country.
The infrastructure and organization achieved by the University allow you to meet the most demanding and diverse academic and administrative requirements of teachers and students, as well as extracurricular activities designed to provide a comprehensive training, which was reflected in the accreditation of its School of Medicine, one of the first Peruvian to get this recognition required by law.
Only in the last decade of the twentieth century, the San Martin de Porres University (USMP) graduated more than 40,000 professionals and contributed to world culture through the publication of over two hundred books and sponsorship of such notable works as the staging of opera Aida at the Huaca Pucllana, a first in Latin America. Please note that the University devotes significant resources to support more than three thousand distinguished students whose limited resources would not allow them to access higher education quality. This support is reflected in more than U.S. $ 1'700, 000 in scholarships awarded through our office of student welfare.
Launched the third millennium, the University has renewed its commitment to the development of the country to establish the first Institute of Government, El Instituto del vino, Club Deportivo Universidad San Martin de Porres, the clinic "Cada Mujer" and more recently, the first VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY Peru. As we approach the half century of existence, the Universidad de San Martin de Porres look to the future with optimism and confidence have become a pillar of the development of Peru.
Nowadays, USMP have:
-16 Campuses with excellent structures.
- 8 faculties18 specialties and 12 Postgrade’s sections.
- 29,124 students, 2641 teachers and 810 people as administrative staff.
- 10 000 computers interconnected.
- 2 TV studies, 1 deontological clinic, 1 obstetric clinic, 1 genetic and molecular biology lab.
- Laboratories with systems of geographic information and processing of imagines, etc.
- Certificate ISO 9000:2000 in specialties of human medicine, tourism and hostelry and communication science.
- 1 professional soccer team.
- In 2006, The subsidiary in Chiclayo was inaugurated with an inversion more than 10 million of dollars.
The Academic Program of Medicine of the University of Saint Martin de Porres, started its activities under Resolution No. 483-83-R, dated 06 July 1983. In 1986, by agreement of the University Assembly, issued Rectoral Resolution No. 462-86, which is integrated as a School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, but the December 29, 1988, the University Assembly agreed separate Dental Medicine, with Rectoral Resolution No. 052-89, which created the College of Human Medicine.
Where is the hosting and boarding?
You will stay in a room of a student's private house/apartment during the time of your clerkship. We try to organize houses or apparmtents near to the hospital you are going to work in, which is not always that easy.
It is okey if you arrive 1-2 days in advance to acclimatisate.
Regard that sometimes there are special conditions concerning the room in which you will stay. We will tell you about this in your CA.
For further details please ask your contact person as the appartments change from month to month.
The meal will be provided daily by contact person.
About the Health Care System
MINISTRY OF HEALTH - MINSA
The Ministry of Health maintains the mission to protect the personal dignity, promoting health, preventing disease and ensuring health care for all inhabitants of the country. Additionally, it formulates public health policy guidelines in consultation with all government sectors and social actors. The person is the center of its mission, and it’s dedicated to them with respect for life and fundamental rights of all Peruvians, since before his birth, and respecting the natural course of his life.
The health of Peruvians will be an expression of important socio-economic development, strengthening democracy of rights and responsibilities of citizens based on the expansion of sources of stable formal employment and education in the values-oriented person, solidarity and in establishing mechanisms for equitable access to health services through a coordinated and decentralized national system of health, developing a national health policy to collect and integrate the contributions of traditional medicine and the various cultural manifestations of our population.
Motto: “People who attends people”
More information: http://www.minsa.gob.pe/
HEALTH SOCIAL SECURITY OF PERU – EsSalud
Health Social Security of Peru (EsSalud) is a decentralized public agency whose vision is geared to generate a service focused on the insured that exceeds their expectations and improve their welfare.
EsSalud aims to provide coverage to policyholders through the granting of benefits of prevention, promotion, recovery and rehabilitation of health, economic and social benefits that relate to the contributory scheme of social security in health and other insurance risks human. EsSalud is a health social insurance that provides comprehensive care with quality, warmth and efficiency to maintain their health insurance.
Motto: “More Health for more Peruvians”
More information: http://www.essalud.gob.pe/
The Hospitals
IFMSA Peru, through their local committee Lima (SOCIEM-USMP), realizes professional exchanges through the network of hospitals affiliated to Medical School of the San Martín de Porres University. There are currently:
Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza – HNAL /MINSA
Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza is a highly specialized reference in the local and national levels, providing efficient health services, promoting healthy ways of life, preventing the risk of damage by protecting, restoring and rehabilitating the capabilities of patients, with full accessibility and attention to the person from conception, promoting teaching and research with competitive quality, service oriented and implement the comprehensive care model of health. Its objectives are: ensuring adequate provision of health services in terms of opportunity, equity, quality and full integration and accessibility to all patients who require our services, improve efficiency in the management of material resources, economic and financial performance and human resource development, creating an organizational culture with values and attitudes towards the needs and expectations of the patient and their family environment as well as strengthen the Epidemiological Surveillance and Situation Analysis of Health.
Address: Av. Alfonso Ugarte # 848, Lima
More information: http://www.hospitalloayza.gob.pe
Hospital Nacional “Dos de Mayo” / MINSA
Hospital Nacional "Dos de Mayo" has as its mission to prevent risks, protect from harm, restore health and restore the capacity of patients with full accessibility and attention to the person from conception to natural death, based on teamwork culture of solidarity with the people and providing an equitable access to efficient and quality services.
Address: Av. Grau # 1300, Lima
Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión – HNDAC / MINSA
Hospital Daniel Alcides Carrión mantains the mission to prevent risks, protect from harm, restore health and restore the capacity of patients with full accessibility and attention to the person from conception until natural death. It is a hospital located in the Constitutional Province of Callao, which provides health care to specialized quality and social commitment. As a Teaching Hospital, participates in the training and specialization of health professionals.
The vision is to become an accredited National Hospital technically and socially prestigious, with an efficient and innovative management at all levels, leaders in the field of hospital care, teaching and research, ensuring the satisfaction of patients and workers.
Address: Av. Avenida Guardia Chalaca # 1860, El Callao, Lima
More information: http://www.hndac.gob.pe
Hospital General María Auxiliadora – HMA / MINSA
Hospital General María Auxiliadora is an institution, Health Care Level III.1 Reference of the Southern “Cono” of Lima City and of Departments Huancavelica, Apurimac, Ayacucho and Ica. Aims to meet the health needs of the population, provide appropriate care to achieve quality and efficiency.
Address: Av. Miguel Iglesias # 968. San Juan de Miraflores, Lima
Hospital Nacional Docente Madre “Niño San Bartolomé” / MINSA
Hospital Nacional Docente Madre “Niño San Bartolomé”is an institution, Health Care Level III, that has as its mission to provide specialized health services of high quality and comprehensive nature directed to women, infants, children and adolescents, who come from anywhere on the national level. Promotional preventive care is also part of its commitment to the community and through it seeks to promote healthy lifestyles and health education to improve the quality of life.
Address: Av. Alfonso Ugarte # 825, Lima
More information: www.sanbartolome.gob.pe
Hospital Nacional Nivel IV Edgardo Rebagliati Martins / EsSalud
Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins with 50 years of foundation, consists of 85 medical specialties and five in intensive care units (general medicine, neurosurgery, cardiovascular, pediatrics and neonatology). All teams are monitoring and treatment of last generation. Hospital is a high generation and has made progress in medicine and high technology equipment.
Address: Av. Salaverry & Jr. Domingo Cueto, Jesús María, Lima
Hospital Nacional Nivel IV Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen / EsSalud
Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, founded in 1941, has the challenge of continuing the modernization drive into a center of culture and knowledge, whose endogenous scientific and technical development is planned for the community.
Address: Av. Grau 800, La Victoria, Lima
Hospital Central de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú / Fuerzas Armadas y Policiales
Hospital Central FAP, is a modern health care center with biomedical equipment of last generation that place it as one of the largest hospitals in the country's technology.
Has a staff of highly trained professionals in all specialties, oriented toward the pursuit of excellence in each of their activities, with the end of a continuous development program in the country and abroad.
Address: Av. Aramburu s/n, cdra. 2°, Miraflores, Lima.
More information: www.hospi.fap.mil.pe
Another hospitals:
- Hospital Alberto Sabogal Sologuren
- Hospital Sergio Bernales
- Hospital Casimiro Ulloa
- Hospital San Jose del Callao
- Hospital Nacional Hipólito Unanue
- Hospital Santa Rosa
- Hospital San Juan de Lurigancho
- Hospital Puente Piedra
- Centro Médico Naval
- Hospital Central PNP
- Hospital militar Central
- Hospital Marino Molina
- Hospital Mongrut Muñoz
- Hospital II Suarez Angamos
- Hospital Emergencias Grau
- Hospital Vitarte
- Hospital Especializado Materno Perinatal
- Hospital de Enfermedades Neoplásicas
About our Medical Education and School
The education in our faculty is for 7 years. The first year it is about general studies. The second and the third year are pre-clinical studies. The fourth year to the sixth year is for clinical studies; and the last year is for Internship.
After the Internship, the title of Surgery medic will be obtained by the presentation of a thesis or doing an exam.
The curricula have 60 curses between 6 years.
The construction of the new College of Human Medicine startet in 1994, and Dr. Frank Dean Lizaraso Caparó located in the in Av. Alameda del Corregidor 1531,Urb Los Sirius, las viñas, La Molina. The classes in this modern local began in January 1997 and ,since then, has become the medical school's most important modern Peru, having the International Accreditation of Medical Schools by RIEV. Today our faculty does significant achievements in our Research Institute in its different branches (Genética, Medicina Tradicional Andina, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacology, etc.).
Our faculty has an anatomic amphitheater, with modern equipments, special models about systems of the body which are useful as a didactic material.
The simulation center is the unique and the most modern in the Perú. It has 8 virtual simulators: 3 simulators for Laparoscopic Surgery, 2 simulators for Interventional vascular procedures, 2 simulators for high and down endoscopic procedures, 1 simulator for urological procedure. They are use in pregrade and postgrade studies.
The post grade program have master titles as:
-Master in Basic Sciences with mention (Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology)
-M.Sc. Morphological
-Master of Management in Health Services
-MSc in Strategic Management and Audit Quality Medical
-Master Thesis in Medicine: Medical-Surgical Specialties
-Master of Medicine Medical Specialists No
-Master of Public Health Thesis (Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Health Project Management)
More information: http://www.medicina.usmp.edu.pe
Professional Exchange
If you really want to learn more about the health care system and medical education in Lima you can benefit a lot from a clerkship here. The most important thing is the readiness to learn and also to support the team on ward.
What else should you know before starting a clerkship in Lima?
Equipment & Language
Remember to bring your own white coat, and a stethoscope.
For the department of Surgery and Gynecology/Obstetrics you will also need your own scrubs.
Spanish is the language spoken by medical staff and patients. For an ideal stay you should have some basic knowledge and understand Spanish.
Vaccination & Health Certificate
To make this less complicated please go to the company doctor of your hometown faculty in advance and bring a certificate for the following required things:
For all positions:
- You must bring a copy of your vaccination card, which includes: Vaccination for Yellow Fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Influenza and Pneumococcus
- Medical attestation from a general/treating physician about your physical fitness.
Departments
The following department can only be offered for students who are profficient in Lima:
Working on ward
Please remember: We expect all incomings to take their clerkship seriously and to behave accordingly! This means, if you apply for 4 weeks you will have to work 4 weeks!
How to get to Lima?
Jorge Chávez International Airport (http://www.lap.com.pe/lap_portal/index.asp)
Jorge Chávez International Airport (IATA: LIM, ICAO: SPIM), known as Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez in Spanish, is Peru's main international and domestic airport. It is located in Callao, 11 kilometers (7 mi) from the Historic Centre of Lima and 17 km (11 mi) from Miraflores. Callao is the port city now fully integrated with Lima, the nation's capital. In 2008, the airport handled 8,288,506 passengers and 98,733 aircraft movements.
Urban Transport
The Public urban transport is by bus or by car (taxi).
The price of a bus depends on the distance you travel. It´s is usually 1 sol or less for students.
The taxi is not cheaper, and you need to negotiate with the taxi driver. It is more or less between 5 soles to 20 soles.(depend the distance of the travel)
Check how much value your money in: http://www.gocurrency.com/conversor-de-monedas.htm
Cultural Aspects
The people of Lima are characterized for been very friendly and talkative. You will feel our hospitality and our kindness, when you stayed here for a time.
GREETINGS
We usually greet people giving one kiss or shaking the hands.
Some useful and short sentences are:
Spanish – English – Português – Deutsch
¡Hola! - Hello! - Oi! - Hallo!
¡Buenos días! - Good Morning! - Bom dia! - Guten Morgen!
¡Buenas tardes! - Good Afternoon! - Boa Tarde! - Guten Tag!
¡Buenas noches! - Good evening! – Boa Noite! – Guten Abend!
¿Qué hora es? - What time is it? – Que horas são? – Wie spät ist es?
Encantado de conocerte - Nice to meet you – Prazer em conheçê-lo - Es freut mich, Sie kennen zu lernen
Chau, nos vemos! - Bye, see you later! – Tchau, até mais! – Tschüss, bis bald!
FOOD
Lima has a wide variety of restaurants and bars where you can taste food and drink local and international, and Peruvian cuisine, widely recognized in any field. Lima has been declared Gourmet Capital of Latin America at the Fourth International Summit of Gastronomy Madrid Fusión 2006. (http://www.elperuano.com.pe/edc/2006/01/24/soc1.asp)
Meals: The important meals are: breakfast (7-9h), lunch (12.30-14.30h), and dinner (19.30-21.30h). But sometimes people have another 2 little meals: in the morning as a “second breakfast” (10-11h) and the “lonche” in the afternoon (17.30-18.30h).
Smoking: It’s forbidden in public buildings except in the restaurants, bars and clubs with license.
Tourism and entertainment activities
City surrounded by formidable archeological, historical and artistic monuments. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1991, has maintained its rich historical center, through the years. This place also known as the "Damer of Pizarro”, the distribution of its streets as a chess board, with one important example of colonial architecture.
-Plaza de Armas de Lima.
-Catedral de Lima.
-Palacio de Gobierno.
-Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco.
-Cementerio General Presbítero Matías Maestro.
-Iglesia y Convento de la Merced.
-Casa Aliaga.
-Museo Arqueológico Josefina Ramos de Cox del Instituto Riva Agüero.
-Museo de la Inquisición del Congreso.
-Iglesia San Pedro.
-Palacio de Torre Tagle.
-Museo del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú.
Don’t forget!
Remember! Bring your ISIC (International Student Identification Card) because you’ll get important discounts in cinemas, museums, transports… Almost every museum has free access or has a student discount.
Useful Phone Numbers
Municipal Police --> Phone number:
Police Emergency --> Phone number:
Civil Defense - Lima Headquarters --> Phone number:
Peruvian Red Cross - Lima Headquarters --> Phone number:
Fire Company --> Phone number:
Contacts
Michael Barrenechea Loo
Local Exchange Officer 2009/2010
Standing Committee on Professional Exchange - SCOPE
IFMSA Peru / LC IFMSA Lima (SOCIEM-USMP)
Universidad de San Martín de Porres
e-mail: michaelbarrenechea@gmail.com
Lorena Escalante Romero
President 2009/2010
IFMSA Peru / LC IFMSA Lima (SOCIEM-USMP)
Universidad de San Martín de Porres
e-mail: lorenes77@hotmail.com, sociem@usmp.edu.pe