This IPE program aims to incorporate the four components necessary in providing excellent patient care: exposure, immersion, experience, and competence. GROUND Asia exposes health care students to healthcare in a communal setting by working with a local community health care center.
Healthcare in Indonesia can be summed up in two words: organized disarray. It remains a decentralized system due to the difficulty of the country’s logistics. At GROUND Asia, we perform health check-ups with our healthcare groups at posyandus and puskesmas. Our groups observe, diagnose, and treat patients in distressed communities.
Indonesia’s diverse geographical condition, ranging from mountains to coastal areas, causes a wide variety of health conditions, and the lifestyles and diets of people from different ethnic backgrounds also have a unique impact on public wellbeing.
Community development is GROUND Asia’s first priority and we take care to ensure all of our university placements and educational travel programs are both sustainable and responsible.
Sri Lanka is one of the newest additions to GROUND Asia, providing educational travel programs for university and high school students across the country.
Australian students who came all the way from Melbourne had a great learning experience in Vietnam as they participated in physiotherapy treatment in Friendship village, Hanoi. Read more
The 2 weeks Oral Health placement is one of GROUND Health Care programs. This program enables a group of Oral Health faculty students to work together with local dentists for free teeth check-ups and mouth hygiene checks. The outreach program works with local NGOs in the dump area in Phnom Penh. Read more
We can see the development of the children, parents supporting their children, parents supporting
each other, children enjoyment and lots of love between people around them.
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GROUND groups not only equip the villages with necessary tools like pens, notebooks, blankets, etc. Read more
If people are living in a remote area where the health officers are not ready to treat you 24/7 or have to travel long distance for the patient in need, they need people from their own neighborhood to be trusted to take care of the sick people. Those people are called ‘kader’. Read more
