Your medical elective should be an experience of a lifetime! The book, Anatomy of an Awesome Medical Elective, provides valuable information to assist students with planning and getting the most out of the experience. As part of your training, you have a four to eight-week window to travel anywhere in the world and get some […]
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While visiting Namibia for your medical placement, stay a few extra days to experience some of these amazing activities! 1 Sail across the Desert in a Hot Air Balloon 2 Safari through the Etosha National Park: Namibia’s best national park; Wildlife include elephant, lion, leopard, black and white rhino, cheetah, giraffe, zebra and antelope. 3 […]
Here are just a few awesome things to do and see while in Tonga .. 1 . Swim with Humpback whales. During their migration in July-October, you can see them swimming along the coast. Take a boat trip so you can get closer and swim with them.2. Explore the diverse underwater ecosystem while diving and snorkeling, […]
We are pleased to launch the DocTours Referral Program. For every person you refer, we will pay you a referral fee of A$50 when they sign up with DocTours. You can choose to receive this fee in cash or we can donate it to your favourite charity on your behalf or you can apply it […]
As a medical student or a medical professional, you may be wondering about whether you are making a positive impact on the community that you visit? Many of our students and volunteers are quite humble and do not notice the extent of their personal contribution or understand the huge benefit of what they do. Some […]
DocTours has another very special student group volunteer program in Nepal commencing on 8 December 2019. During your two week program, you will observe and assist at a local hospital, do basic medical checks and conduct health and hygiene classes at remote schools. All medical and healthcare students (at all stages of training) are welcome. […]
Authored by Karin Eurell Hot off the press: How to Plan your International Student Placement and Get the Most out of it! Are you dreaming of, or planning, your international student placement? Feeling some FOMO or overwhelmed by the choices, decisions and research needed? Not sure where to start, where to go and how much it […]
Orphanages in Cambodia have received some poor PR in recent years. However, through our contacts in the medical industry, we often connect with schools and causes where allied health professionals are genuinely needed. They have asked for the support of medical professionals and healthcare students – do you know someone who can help? It is […]
Meet Jaime, from NSW. She has been volunteering as a nurse and midwife in Moshi, the capital of the Kilimanjaro region in north-eastern Tanzania. She shared a picture of her holding a little guy that she just delivered. The mum spoke no English and Jaime spoke very little Swahili at the time. However, the mother […]
We are two medical students from Sydney who travelled to Nepal for a four-week medical elective placement. We landed in Kathmandu after a long overnight flight very tired, so coming out of the airport to find our hosts, Bijuli and Sunita, waiting with a Nepali flag and traditional welcome was wonderful. Their homestay was welcoming […]
We are very excited to launch placements in Vietnam – our hot new destination for medical students, nursing students and medical volunteers. Vietnam: A beautiful country, rich in culture, a challenging history and an amazingly interesting place to visit. DocTours will be offering placements at the Viet Duc University Hospital (‘VDUH’) in Hanoi. The VDUH […]
1. Safari in the Serengeti National Park: Get an amazing view of wildlife in their natural habitat all year-round including lions, cheetahs, elephants and leopards. Follow the trail of the great migration and see over a million wildebeest plus zebra and gazelles walking in a column over 40km long in search of water. 2 Trek Mt Kilimanjaro: The most […]
Volunteer doctors are desperately needed for a remote clinic in Timor Leste. There are local nurses and midwives to support the people of Maucatar however there is no doctor. GP’s who can manage a short term visit would be greatly appreciated to help treat patients and teach local staff. This Medical Clinic opened in October […]
Money may not buy happiness but volunteering does! A recent economics study by Macquarie University confirms that volunteering makes people happy and provides a boost to their feelings of well-being when they put their hand up to help in their communities. As well as the feel-good factor, respondents had better self-assessed health and were less […]
Here are some of our top tips for staying safe while travelling overseas: Arriving in a foreign country: We recommend that you organise an airport arrival transfer in advance. You may arrive in a foreign city late at night and you may be tired and jet-lagged. Therefore, it is much safer (particularly if you have not […]
Nepal for Medical Students – We have a special Student Placement – Nepal for Medical Students – commences on 8 December 2019. You will be based in one of several hospitals in the Kathmandu Valley as well as have the opportunity to do basic medical check-ups and conduct health and hygiene classes at a local […]
Medical Volunteering in Namibia A relatively safe (although not risk-free) destination is to visit and go volunteering in Namibia. It’s location in the far south of Africa places it a very long distance from the troubles in the West African nations. The vivid desert landscape and wildlife are awesome with magnificent cheetahs now part of […]
Jambo Bwana! Medical Volunteering in Tanzania Home to Africa’s highest mountain – Mount Kilimanjaro – and Lake Manyara with its tens of thousands of elegant Flamingos. The incredible Ngorongoro Crater boasting the largest intact caldera in the world, it shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens anywhere, with a permanent population of more than […]
Medical Volunteering in Cambodia: What a great way to start the New Year by helping others and practicing back to basics medicine with the re-introduction of our medical clinic program in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This is a small health centre treating up to 40 patients (mainly children) a day and seeing everything from general and tropical medicine […]
Volunteering in Fiji: After a few months of negotiation we are now offering volunteering in FIJI as our newest destination. This has many great advantages including inexpensive airfares (book early), short flights, a tropical island experience and of course a full range of specialist, GP, nursing and student placements. Fiji certainly has its challenges medically so here lies an opportunity […]
Something awesome – a nurse volunteering in Cambodia We have been moved by the awesome experience of Amanda Mason-Jones, an Australian nurse volunteering in Cambodia at a health care clinic with DocTours. The clinic relies on foreign donations and support. She wrote to us: ” I’ve just returned from volunteering as a nurse in Siem Reap, Cambodia. […]