Student stories
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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...
Mutare Provincial Hospital is a referral hospital servicing the eastern province of Manicaland. The hospital refers on to Harare Central Hospital and...
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...
I had the opportunity to travel to Zambia for my medical elective. I spent 4 weeks in Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH).
This placement provided great learning opportunities in developing my diagnostic thinking, as well as seeing late presentations that are not commonly seen in...
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...