DocTours helps you prepare for your international medical placement. So, what’s new? Here are some helpful suggestions to check out before you go! Our good friends in Namibia are seeking a GP to work in their remote clinic for the next 3-6 months. It would be a great sabbatical and an opportunity to explore this […]
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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. […]
Launching our newest destination for medical placements – medical electives in Vietnam … DocTours is now offering medical placements at the Viet Duc University Hospital (‘VDUH’) in Hanoi. The VDUH is one of the largest hospitals in Vietnam and undertakes a wide range of surgical procedures include neurosurgery, orthopedics, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterology, plastic, […]
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 […]
Fiji has much to offer outside the tourist resorts and is a fantastic location for medical volunteers and students. Here are some fun things to do: 1. Get down and dirty in a mud bath and swim in a natural hot spring. Known to be great for the skin and a real cleansing experience. Afterwards stroll […]
DocTours medical volunteers providing healthcare in Cambodia and are doing terrific work to help the young people build happier and healthier lives. Don (a paramedic) said: “Wow what an amazing experience being part of the medical volunteer program. I taught the children about hygiene and treated one of the volunteers at the school. Thanks for arranging […]
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 […]
A Volunteer Nurse in Timor Leste Some of our volunteers are humble and do not always see how much value they deliver or understand the huge benefit of what they do. We believe (and hope) that the benefits emerge on many fronts: there are warm smiles and words of gratitude received from the patients, volunteers […]
Healthcare volunteering in Fiji Researching for our healthcare volunteering in Fiji programs: We climbed aboard a rickety old bus, gave a few coins to the driver and sat on a seat with torn covers. I looked out the window, there was no glass, however, the sea breeze provided some very welcome ventilation. What did seem […]
Medical Volunteering in Cambodia Derek and I travelled through Cambodia (yes, again!) in late December to review our placements for volunteering in Cambodia. We now have hospitals and clinics in four different cities and they are all asking for DocTours volunteers to lend a hand and share their knowledge. All general medical professions are highly […]
Namaste from Nepal – Volunteering in Nepal …. by Jennifer Leow, RN. A nurse volunteering in Nepal: I first saw DocTours advertisement in “The Lamp” (New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association) magazine. The first thought that came to mind as I would love to experience my first nursing volunteer work in a totally different […]
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. […]