Student stories
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I completed my elective over summer in my hometown of Dungog NSW in a rural general practice.
I completed my medical elective over January 2019 at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne attached to the Lung Transplant Unit.
The ICU provides sophisticated, indefinite multi-system life support for patients following surgery, major trauma, complex respiratory management, sepsis,...
I completed my elective in the anaesthetics department at Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria.
I wanted to get more exposure in community based primary healthcare. Even though prison healthcare is not exactly “community based” but it is something I have...
I think three of my most memorable cases were a man who had torn his rotator cuff by being bitten by a crab, assisting the doctor remove a fishing hook from a...
For my elective placement, I chose to stay closer to home, and undertook two 2 week placements within the Canberra region and surrounds.
In terms of the medical side of the elective, doing anaesthetics at SERH was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had during medical training.
I decided to undertake my medical elective at the Batemans Bay Emergency Department. I had completed my year of placement in the Eurobodalla shire that year as...
I had the good fortune to spend 4 weeks with the ICU Dept at the University Hospital Geelong, Australia. Right from the start the team welcomed me into the...
I arrive at 7:15am on Monday morning at the Adelaide fertility clinic where I’m doing my medical elective placement to observe the first surgery of the day.
This has been one of my favourite placements throughout medical school, I think the NT provides excellent experiences and training for medical students and...