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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Long distance swimmer and ocean advocate Ben Lecomte is looking for a volunteer medic to join a crew of 10 on a 3-month swimming/sailing expedition from Hawaii to California. After spending 165 days at sea and swimming over 1500 nautical miles off the coast of Japan in 2018 for The Swim, Ben and crew were […]
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 […]
Hello Everyone! With a sense of pride, we wish ‘bon voyage’ to lots of medical students who are jetting off to Fiji, Nepal, Cambodia, Ecuador, Namibia and Sri Lanka to do their international medical elective with DocTours. Meanwhile, closer to home, we have been receiving requests for dentists to help out in Balibo, Timor Leste, […]