About us
What is Global Pre-Meds?
Global Pre-Meds is a specialist organization, dedicated to providing clinical shadowing experiences for aspiring medical and nursing students. These experiences help our students to make better-informed decisions about their education and future career paths, as well as providing a valuable learning platform to help them prepare for university applications and interviews.
We operate residential programs in various parts of the world, working closely with carefully selected partner hospitals to provide safe, meaningful and well-supervised clinical placements. What makes our placements so valuable is our system of mentoring, pairing each student with an experienced health professional who serves as their personal guide and inspiration throughout the experience.
Every year, thousands of students from America and across the globe choose the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that is a Global Pre-Meds placement. They do so to set themselves apart with real experience of the clinical world, to develop as people, and to form friendships and memories that will stay with them for life.
Dave Brown, Founder and Director
During their time on the program, students live in one of our exclusive Global Pre-Meds houses, bringing together elements of a hotel, a student house and a host family to create a safe, welcoming and great fun home away from home. Meals are cooked fresh by our in-house chef, and a full local staff team is on hand to provide support and supervision around the clock.
Each student is assigned to one of our enthusiastic Student Experience Advisors to provide an additional level of personal support both before and during the placement – a service that’s especially valuable to those with little previous experience of international travel or clinical shadowing.
We believe passionately in our model as an ethical business, operating on transparent commercial principles that give us a strong and truly sustainable foundation from which we can do good. The fees we pay to partner hospitals provide them with a valuable additional income stream, and we also pay the individual doctors and nurses who serve as our mentors well for every student they host (something we believe is crucial to motivation and sustainability).
We also believe passionately in operating with respect to our natural environment and the communities in which we work. By 2019, we will have cut the use of single-use plastics in all Global Pre-Meds houses to almost zero, and technologies such as solar power systems and reverse osmosis water purification are allowing us to further reduce our negative environmental footprint. We are an inclusive and respectful employer, believing that people who work hard and deliver deserve to be well-rewarded.
We hope you’ll join us.