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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 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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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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I undertook my elective placement in the UK with the London HEMS team (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), also called London’s Air Ambulance. 

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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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.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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My elective was in Kasangati, a small town around 40 minutes outside of the capital Kampala.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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Mutare Provincial Hospital is a referral hospital servicing the eastern province of Manicaland. The hospital refers on to Harare Central Hospital and Parireyantwa Hospital as required.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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For my elective, I spent 4 weeks at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) where I spent 2 weeks in Emergency Medicine and 2 weeks in Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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This placement provided great learning opportunities in developing my diagnostic thinking, as well as seeing late presentations that are not commonly seen in Australia.

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Thursday, 06 Jun 2019
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Although the title of my elective “Paediatric Neurology” sounded a little intimidating, the team I worked with were in fact the opposite.

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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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