Eleanor Greenham
- Keele University 2012
- Medical, Sri Lanka Kandy
If I were to use one word to sum up my time in Sri Lanka it would be ‘amazing’. It is an experience full of fabulous memories which will stay with me forever.
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Browse reviews from students who have chosen Work the World to organise their Medical elective placements abroad. Read honest, first-hand accounts of life on placement and find out what to expect.
Edward Moseley
- Keele University 2012
- Medical, Ghana Takoradi
"I rotated around the general medical, paediatric and accident & emergency departments. This gave me the opportunity to see diseases that you seldom see, or have only ever heard about.":
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Linzie Long
- St George's, University of London 2011
- Medical, Sri Lanka Kandy
The highlight of my placement was going to an outreach clinic, then having king coconuts with the registrars on the side of the road on the way back.
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Tariq Shafi
- University of Nottingham 2011
- Medical, Sri Lanka Kandy
Many patients presented late, so I saw fairly advanced and destructive tumours
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Rachel Rowland
- University of Oxford 2011
- Medical, Tanzania Dar es Salaam
There was one paediatrics ward, which was split in two - contagious (diarrhoea) and non-contagious, mainly malaria and pneumonia.
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