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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 things like 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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A lot of things are banned from hand luggage, but there are plenty of surprising items that are actually fine. Here is our top ten list of items that you can take on the plane with you!
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We love to hear about what students do in their spare time when you are overseas; from tea drinking between shifts with the local staff in Nepal to attending loud and lively weddings in Ghana…This week we asked the students “What is the most interesting and positive encounter you’ve had with a local outside of your placement?”
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In February, the Work the World house in Kandy welcomed the arrival of our very first nursing students from the UK!
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There has been a huge amount written about the Global Health Initiative recently so we decided to ask our healthcare students overseas what they thought about this and how an overseas elective has provided more of an insight into this?
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Work the World launches Radiography and Radiotherapy placements.
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