Role of clinical tutors in volunteering work camps

Context : The campsite is located in the South of Peru in the Canete Valley, an area characterised by extreme poverty and a severe lack of infrastructure. During the five Workcamp Peru trips that have been organised so far, health science students have carried out many activities for disease prevention and health education, and bio-medical engineering students have organised sessions on the safety of electrical installations, for accident prevention.

Background : The Universitia Campus Bio-Medico (Italy) promotes a summer volunteering work camp (Workcamp Peru) as a social activity for medical and non-medical students. Some junior doctors participate as 'clinical tutors', together with tutors from other professions; all clinical tutors have some teaching experience in our teaching hospital.