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Clinical elective placements

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Monday, 22 Jul 2024
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Clinical experiences in Primary Healthcare and Emergency Care in Spain highlighted to student Cellina Polifrone Occelli the radicial differences in approach between the Australian and Spanish healthcare systems.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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I completed my medical elective at St Luke’s Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. The hospital itself was a great location to spend four weeks as everyone was friendly and it was a relatively new facility.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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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 had no extensive knowledge or expectations on what my time there would be like.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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London (and its winter weather) suited me well during my elective placement at The Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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At the beginning of my fourth year at ANU, I undertook an elective placement at the Emergency Department of Mater Dei Hospital, Malta.  Mater Dei hospital is the only hospital serving the islands of Malta, and so sees a vast array of different presentations on a daily basis.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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Thailand was a natural choice for me to undertake my elective because of my close involvement with the Thai-Australian community.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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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 followed by two weeks in the Tropical Disease & Toxicology department.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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As the bus pulled into Wexford Station one cold, drizzly Sunday afternoon, on Ireland’s historical south-eastern coast, I couldn’t help but think “I left an Australian summer for this?”

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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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 200.000 people spread over a vast area.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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For my elective, I had the lovely opportunity to join the interventional cardiology team at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. This was through the University of London.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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I did my elective placement, along with 3 other good friends from my year, at St Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo from 7 January 2019 – 1 February 2019.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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I travelled to South Africa for my placement in orthopaedics at the New Somerset Hospital in Greenpoint, Cape Town.  It was an interesting experience.

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