Student stories
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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...
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...
I travelled to South Africa for my placement in orthopaedics at the New Somerset Hospital in Greenpoint, Cape Town. It was an interesting experience.
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.
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.
Sometimes consultants permitted me to have one-on-one interviews with patients to get to know them better. These interviews were typically informal and...