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Clinical elective placements

Student stories

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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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2019
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White, sandy beaches, palm trees, coconuts and turtles. These were the constants of my elective block placements.

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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2019
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I spent my elective at the emergency department of the Keski-Suomen Sairaanhoitopiiri, a tertiary teaching hospital found in the Finnish city of Jyvaskyla.

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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2019
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Applying for an elective in Brunei is relatively easy. There are multiple hospitals available but the largest public hospital is Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital (RIPASH).

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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2019
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I spent a month in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics in Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.

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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2019
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I was welcomed as part of the Surg B team at Box Hill hospital during my elective. The team consisted of three interns, two registrars, one fellow and numerous consultants.

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Wednesday, 05 Jun 2019
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My placement at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital has put me in good stead for my last year of medical school and has also prepared me for my internship.

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Friday, 31 May 2019
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I completed my elective over summer in my hometown of Dungog NSW in a rural general practice.

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Friday, 31 May 2019
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I completed my elective in the anaesthetics department at Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Friday, 31 May 2019
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I completed my medical elective over January 2019 at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne attached to the Lung Transplant Unit.

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Friday, 31 May 2019
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Sometimes consultants permitted me to have one-on-one interviews with patients to get to know them better. These interviews were typically informal and unstructured, but allowed me to get comfortable talking to patients and asking about topics relevant to their care.

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Friday, 31 May 2019
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The ICU provides sophisticated, indefinite multi-system life support for patients following surgery, major trauma, complex respiratory management, sepsis, oncology, renal failure, infectious diseases and multiple organ dysfunction.

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