6 Jun 2019

I undertook my elective placement in the UK with the London HEMS team (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), also called London’s Air Ambulance. 

6 Jun 2019

At the beginning of my fourth year at ANU, I undertook an elective placement at the Emergency Department of Mater Dei Hospital, Malta.  Mater Dei hospital is...

6 Jun 2019

The John Radcliffe Hospital has a very large plastics department, with over 23 consultants who perform a very wide variety of surgeries, more so than probably...

6 Jun 2019

My elective was in gastroenterology for 4 weeks at Mater Dei hospital, which is the only major hospital of the island.

6 Jun 2019

My elective placement was at Cho Ray Hospital, the largest general hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I spent two weeks in the Emergency department...

6 Jun 2019

My first day of Oncology I was introduced to my lovely team, Dr Nick Refalo the consultant and Dr Etienne Paris the registrar (or higher specialty trainee as...

6 Jun 2019

Mutare Provincial Hospital is a referral hospital servicing the eastern province of Manicaland. The hospital refers on to Harare Central Hospital and...

6 Jun 2019

My time spent in the ICU department in Hasting was both educational and thoroughly enjoyable. The hospital covers the entire Hawke’s bay population of around...

6 Jun 2019

I had the opportunity to travel to Zambia for my medical elective. I spent 4 weeks in Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH).

6 Jun 2019

This placement provided great learning opportunities in developing my diagnostic thinking, as well as seeing late presentations that are not commonly seen in...

6 Jun 2019

For my elective block undertook General Surgery and Orthopaedics in the Pacific nation of Samoa. I had never travelled to any of the pacific islands before and...

6 Jun 2019

I travelled to South Africa for my placement in orthopaedics at the New Somerset Hospital in Greenpoint, Cape Town.  It was an interesting experience.