Clinical elective placements

ANU Medical school has students undertaking their clinical placements all over the world. The map below details our placements.

ANU also offers opportunities to students looking to complete an incoming clinical elective term here at ANU.

Clinical electives stories

General Surgery and Orthopaedics, Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital, Apia, Samoa »

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...

Orthopaedics, New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa »

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

Neurology elective, Lanka Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka »

I conducted my neurology elective at the Lanka Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka in January 2019. The elective lasted 4 weeks and was divided into 3 separate...