Our partner hospital in Tanzania provides extensive opportunities in niche fields like neurosurgery, oncology, and anaesthesiology, making for a totally unique medical elective. There are also many different specialisms – endocrinology, cardiology, and neurology to name a few – that are available for you to engage with. The adventure continues during your time off too; venture to Mikumi National Park for Africa’s famous safari, or trek to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Read what our students think below!
Reviews
Chlöe Irvine
University of Central Lancashire 2024
"Each weekend we would travel in small groups and go on some amazing excursions such as swimming with wild dolphins and relaxing on white sand beaches".
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Queen's University Belfast 2024
"Patients in Tanzania have to pay for their hospital bills themselves. This means they present with much more advanced conditions than what I would see at home, it was eye-opening".
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University of Tasmania 2020
"The local staff were very welcoming and incredibly generous with their time and teaching."
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University of Queensland 2018
"I saw doctors who cared about their patients, using what they could to do as good a job as possible."
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University of Western Australia 2017
"I highly recommend a Work the World overseas placement".
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University of Sheffield 2016
"Exposure to this has helped me to develop both clinically and emotionally".
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University of New South Wales 2015
Working in these hospitals made me simultaneously angry & passionate. Angry at the lack of resources & passionate about wanting to make a difference
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Barts & The London Queen Mary's School of Medicine & Dentistry 2012
You will also never truly grasp the impact of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa until you have been
Read moreRachel Dawson
Queen's University Belfast 2012
It’s cliché, but it really was a life-changing experience and I would have loved to have had more time
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