A medical elective at our partner hospital in Kathmandu offers you opportunities in a vast range of different specialist areas. These include neurology, cardiology, nephrology, and more. It’ll be up to you which specific area you’ll want to focus on, but each one will provide you with invaluable experience and insight into Nepal’s healthcare system. Exploring Kathmandu's detailed temples, hiking through lush forests and wildlife, and paragliding through the mountains are all musts once your placement hours are over. Read what our students think below!
Reviews
John Jenkins
University of Southampton 2023
"The biggest difference was the lack of provisions. Even though the hospital is partly funded, all patients still had to buy all medications and provisions for the doctors to treat them".
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University of Newcastle 2023
"Having the opportunity to take my skills overseas and learn how things work in a healthcare system that is, in many ways, completely different from my own was too good to pass up."
Read moreLexi Colebrook
Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry 2023
"My supervisors were great, really friendly and engaging and all spoke excellent English and got me involved".
Read moreNicholas Eikelboom
University of Western Australia 2019
"This was a good opportunity to get some clinical practice with plastering and minor trauma management."
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University of Queensland 2019
"The doctors and nurses are supremely knowledgeable and excellent teachers".
Read moreLeslie Logghe
2018
"I saw conditions I’d never seen before, and probably won’t see again."
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University of Leicester 2018
"One case that stuck with me was that of a ten-year-old boy with renal failure..."
Read moreMorgan Hughes
University of Queensland 2018
"There’s no substitute for experience when it comes to this kind of thing; so get out of your comfort zone and give it a shot!"
Read moreAnnefleur Mauritz
2017
"My trip to Kathmandu was an amazing experience. I developed as a person and as a future doctor."
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