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Independent Placements - Medicine

In the western world access to medical care is available to all. However in many of the countries where we operate, the standard of medical care is heavily dependent on where you live and how much you can afford to pay. This means that you will be gaining experience in hospitals and clinics with few of the facilities we are used to at home. This also means that you may see examples of medical conditions that you just wouldn’t see in your career in a western hospital.

For example, in some of the hospitals where we work, while accompanying doctors on daily ward rounds it will be common to see patients with advanced sepsis or suffering from tetanus simply because they could not afford to pay for antibiotics or the proper treatment. On the same ward visits you will learn how doctors use intuition when making diagnoses because x-ray and ultra sound are simply not available or are unaffordable. Illnesses and facilities will vary depending on your chosen destination. For example, in Peru the opportunity is available to visit a jungle clinic, where tropical diseases are treated. In Uganda, medics can work with patients suffering from HIV and AIDS.

Locations

We are currently running medicine and healthcare in the following locations:

• Fiji
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Peru
• Uganda

Your role

Of course the type of experience you gain will depend heavily on your interests and previous clinical experience. Medics with clinical experience may be able to utilize their experience and apply what they’ve learnt to help out over worked doctors, possibly using the experience to brush up on areas they have neglected or struggled with. Local doctors will also be keen to hear about new techniques and advances in medical practice in western medicine.

Those still to gain clinical experience will be doing less hands-on work. The nurse to doctor ratio in our partner hospitals and clinics is much lower than at home, so as well as accompanying doctors on ward rounds and spending time observing in various departments, you may be able to help with the day to day care of patients.

Our medical placements are not just confined to medical students. For those people looking to gain experience in health care, nursing, physiotherapy or another profession allied to medicine, there are opportunities for you to spend time in these areas.

The majority of the Madventurer medic placements are in major urban areas where you will spend time in larger regional medical centers. This will help you get a broader range of experiences. However, there will also be opportunities to help out in rural communities on outreach health programmes

Health and Care projects

From the clinic

"This week has been an amazing experience for both us medics. The lack of staff resources (leading us having to take part to enormous levels) has made us truly grateful for our working environment in the UK. We have had numerous opportunities this week alone to experience things that we would have to wait years to see in the UK. Perhaps the best was the opportunity to help deliver a child after observing just 3 births. We are enormously grateful to all the doctors and nurses at the Jinja hospital, especially the Sister for all her time and help. They do a truly amazing job. Here's to another week and another department."