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Some of you won’t have conversational Spanish. So, we’ve partnered with language schools in both Peru and Mexico to develop a one-week Intensive Spanish Course focusing on clinical words and phrases you’ll use on placement.

It’s one thing reading what we have to say about the benefits of interprofessional learning, but it’s another to hear it from the people living the experience. We caught up with a group of our students in Nepal to find out more.

Because a successful placement is one that ensures mutual and reciprocal benefits for both the visiting student and the hosting hospitals and clinics.

Funding your elective or placement shouldn’t be a source of stress, but for many, it is. The sheer amount of options available to you - from organising fundraising events to applying for bursaries and grants - is enough to make the head of any student or professional start spinning.

For many of us in the western world, the word ‘Ayurveda’ roughly translates to spa treatments, aromatic oils, and maybe some panpipe music. Is there more we can learn from the practice than massages alone? You better believe it, says Hannah Peck.