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