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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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]