Medical ethics is a unique and fascinating discipline
which shapes the foundation of what is right and what is wrong in
healthcare.  It requires one to make a
re (…)

Planning an overseas elective is a daunting prospect, starting with the decision of where to go?

Having spent the summer in Mongolia overseeing our projects I came (…)

Taking an elective is a challenge and taking one where people speak another language is a bigger one yet.   At The Medical Electives Network we regard a Spanish language based elective as a (…)

Travelling to distant shores to spend (…)

Before you embark on electives most people look at the options and boil it down to the basics. Why book with a company? It’s easy! Why organise it independently? It’s cheap! 

Depending (…)

Moving Mountains Kenya: MMKenya undertake many projects in Embu
and facilitate the smooth running of the Rescue Centre for Street
Children as well as working together with County Primary (…)

We asked Kevin Hurley from Medical Electives Net to write a blog explaining why he had chosen to set up MEN and what living and working using a foreign language is like: 

Originally from (…)

Adventure Alternative have been a sponsor of TEN for over 6 years and have a great reputation for providing fantastic electives for medical students.
Recently their partners at the Moving Mountain (…)

This week we have chosen one of the smallest countries on the earth as our featured country. The Kingdom of Brunei, the last remnants of an empire that once included all of Borneo and the southwest (…)

If you are thinking that your future may lie in brain surgery or you just feel like you would like to gain some extraordinary experience in the field then why not apply to do your elective at this (…)

Well what’s not to like about Peru? If you like natural beauty then there can’t be much to beat the majestic beauty of the Andes in fact Lonely Planet say

’between the parched coastal desert an (…)

As part of their Elective report competition the MDU have recently added some Elective Reports to their You Tube channel. Why not have a look at them? They contain some really useful information ab (…)

Planning and organising your elective in the middle of your studies is never an easy task and many students often aim to find the least complicated method of sorting their elective. But is this alw (…)

Cuba is a paradox. It is a poor country with an excellent healthcare system. It’s a place where poor people die of rich people’s disease. Cuba achieves life expectancy and infant mortality rates as (…)

Closing Date: 3pm on Friday 4th March 2011

Wellbeing of Women and The National Birthday Trust Fund will award a minimum of ten bursaries of £1000 each towards the expenses of student electiv (…)

Well, after Christmas we started back at work on boxing day at Dophil clinic with Dr. Philip. Phil did a couple of circumcisions – I’d had enough of those after my first week. He showed the doctors (…)

On christmas day, we awoke at 10 and waited for Alfred to pick us up from the hotel in Kisumu to take us to the orphanage to deliver gifts and sodas and sit down for lunch. Fletch had told us to be (…)

I was both excited and apprehensive as I sat in the departure lounge at Heathrow Airport waiting for my flight to Nairobi, Kenya. I had just passed my medical school final exams, was officially a d (…)

My first Blog – I’m going to type up my journal entries as I wrote them over the last few days.

Sunday 15th – Monday 16th August 2010.

Well I’ve finally arrive (…)

Blog 5

A community alive!..

We have had a really fun couple of days focusing farther a field from just the clinic.

First was our day in the garden. Although we have been enjoyi (…)

BLOG 4!

So blog number 4 and half way through our time at the clinic now, still with so much do to that its difficult to find time for blogging!

The acute treatments at Sambhavna are (…)

We’ve had such a full week its hard to know where to begin.

The best thing I think we’ve done is getting a real idea about just how integrative the care is here, a world away from the defini (…)

Sambhavna blog number 2

The last few days have involved Sambhavna clinics, Hindi crash course, a good exploration of Bhopal and
an intriguing visit to Bhopal Memorial Hospital.

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First post!

Joe and Lotte – Blog number 1

Stepped off the plane into baking heat that brings an instant glistening sheen to your face with beads of sweat dripping down your back (…)