Welcome!

Welcome to the Peru Heath Outreach Project blog!  PHOP is a month-long international medical school elective organized by medical students at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, USA, and others who have joined the efforts.

In 2009, we were invited by the mayor of Lamay and a local nonprofit organization called Peruvian Hearts to provide basic medical care to people in Lamay, Peru and surrounding mountain villages in the Sacred Valley region of Peru. At that time, we took a group of about 30 medical students, physicians, and support staff and provided outpatient medical care to over 1000 patients over one month.  The project has grown exponentially since, and this year we have a group of about 60 students, physicians, and support staff traveling to the Sacred Valley in June.

Here, we hope to capture our whole journey, from the planning stages through our time in Peru, in the multiple voices of those participating.

Thanks for joining us!