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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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The John Radcliffe Hospital has a very large plastics department, with over 23 consultants who perform a very wide variety of surgeries, more so than probably any other department, including some surgeries which are only done in a handful of centres worldwide. 

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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The electives program at St Luke’s is structured so that I went to a different department for each week of the four weeks.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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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 rotations.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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I had the opportunity to travel to Zambia for my medical elective. I spent 4 weeks in Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH).

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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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 they are known in Malta). I felt welcomed and included from the very first moment I was there.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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My elective over January 2019 consisted of two placements, 3 weeks at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (LCHC) and 1 week at Ormskirk Medical Practice.

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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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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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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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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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