International education and exchange opportunities are continually expanding. However, the programs do not always address the health and safety of their participants. What if a student or faculty member becomes sick or injured in a foreign location? Is your school prepared to help?

Individuals relying on their home medical insurance plan often face serious difficulties in locating medical care abroad and in resolving payment issues. Delays and denials of important treatment are not uncommon.

PEACE OF MIND
The above items are an increasing concern for parents and school administrators. Peace of mind comes only with a company that has the multilingual capabilities and internal resources to provide assistance anywhere, anytime to international travelers. Peace of mind comes from MEDEX.

AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE
MEDEX provides a crucial 24-hour emergency support system to offer immediate, effective help to students and faculty. This relieves your school from having to perform this function in-house where experience in responding to such emergencies may be limited. When MEDEX is added as a benefit to study abroad programs, it shows your participants that you not only care about their education, but their health and safety too.

GROUP MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS
The MEDEX ACCESS program allows you to offer your students and/or faculty a portfolio of assistance services to help with any medical or travel emergency. This program can be blanketed on a large employee or student base, but rated only on your true travel exposure. As these services are available for education, business or leisure travel, it makes an excellent benefit addition.

The MEDEX PLUS program takes the ACCESS program one step further, adding many valuable paid benefits to the MEDEX portfolio of services. This program is ideal for groups not wishing to self-fund transport costs or for those who feel they need additional evacuation coverage.

MEDEX SECURE is a comprehensive program that provides everything included in the MEDEX PLUS program and additionally includes payment for political and security evacuations. When faced with an immediate need to transport students and faculty to safety, costs for transport can escalate as quickly as the volatile situation in which they are caught. While emergency political and security evacuation coordination is included in all MEDEX programs, your MEDEX program can also protect your financial liability in the event of civil disturbances or political uprisings. In addition, personalized consultation time with the MEDEX Security Director is built into all MEDEX political and security evacuation programs.

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS
MEDEX services are available on a voluntary basis for students, faculty, scholars and their dependents engaged in international education/exchange outside of their home country. These programs exceed USIA requirements for medical evacuation and repatriation. Click here for more information about individual membership options.