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5 Jun 2019
I was welcomed as part of the Surg B team at Box Hill hospital during my elective. The team consisted of three interns, two registrars, one fellow and numerous...
5 Jun 2019
White, sandy beaches, palm trees, coconuts and turtles. These were the constants of my elective block placements.
5 Jun 2019
Applying for an elective in Brunei is relatively easy. There are multiple hospitals available but the largest public hospital is Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak...
5 Jun 2019
My placement at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital has put me in good stead for my last year of medical school and has also prepared me for my internship.
5 Jun 2019
I spent my elective at the emergency department of the Keski-Suomen Sairaanhoitopiiri, a tertiary teaching hospital found in the Finnish city of Jyvaskyla.
31 May 2019
Sometimes consultants permitted me to have one-on-one interviews with patients to get to know them better. These interviews were typically informal and...
31 May 2019
I completed my elective over summer in my hometown of Dungog NSW in a rural general practice.
31 May 2019
I completed my medical elective over January 2019 at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne attached to the Lung Transplant Unit.
31 May 2019
The ICU provides sophisticated, indefinite multi-system life support for patients following surgery, major trauma, complex respiratory management, sepsis,...
31 May 2019
I completed my elective in the anaesthetics department at Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria.
30 May 2019
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...
29 May 2019
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...