Welcome to the Work the World blog — here, you'll find articles to help you make a more informed decision about your overseas healthcare placement. You'll learn about how a placement can boost your career, how you can spread the cost of your trip, the benefits of travelling overseas versus staying at home, why a Work the World placement presents such great value and more.
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Africa is a large continent and we have some incredible countries for you to choose from for your clinical placement or medical elective in Africa. Get to know our Work the World African programs...
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Navin travelled to Nepal in 2016 where he spent 6 weeks. He is now a Registrar in Emergency Medicine at Leicester Royal Infirmary. We caught up with Navin in early 2023 to reflect on his overseas medical elective.
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"I learnt so many skills and had experiences I wouldn’t have had if I had stayed in the UK"
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"We taught some of the dads how to do back massages to help with the pain. You could sense that they were terrified to even be near the women because it’s not a cultural norm."
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"After my overseas placement, I was more clued up on the conditions I was studying because I had seen the conditions first hand with my own eyes in Vietnam."
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