Student stories
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I travelled to South Africa for my placement in orthopaedics at the New Somerset Hospital in Greenpoint, Cape Town. It was an interesting experience.
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...
Thailand was a natural choice for me to undertake my elective because of my close involvement with the Thai-Australian community.
My elective was in Kasangati, a small town around 40 minutes outside of the capital Kampala.
My elective over January 2019 consisted of two placements, 3 weeks at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (LCHC) and 1 week at Ormskirk Medical Practice.
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...
White, sandy beaches, palm trees, coconuts and turtles. These were the constants of my elective block placements.
Applying for an elective in Brunei is relatively easy. There are multiple hospitals available but the largest public hospital is Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak...
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.
I spent my elective at the emergency department of the Keski-Suomen Sairaanhoitopiiri, a tertiary teaching hospital found in the Finnish city of Jyvaskyla.
I spent a month in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics in Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.
Sometimes consultants permitted me to have one-on-one interviews with patients to get to know them better. These interviews were typically informal and...