A medical elective at our partner hospital in Kathmandu offers you opportunities in a vast range of different specialist areas. These include neurology, cardiology, nephrology, and more. It’ll be up to you which specific area you’ll want to focus on, but each one will provide you with invaluable experience and insight into Nepal’s healthcare system. Exploring Kathmandu's detailed temples, hiking through lush forests and wildlife, and paragliding through the mountains are all musts once your placement hours are over. Read what our students think below!
Reviews
Shaylee Poole
University of Wollongong 2024
"I assisted in multiple surgeries on this patient from the first debridement to the final graft placement."
Read moreSukhchandan Kaur
University of Auckland 2024
"I had the opportunity to observe numerous rare and advanced disease presentations in the outpatient department"
Read morePeter Newell
Queen's University Belfast 2024
"I have had an amazing placement in Nepal, which has given me a real insight into how healthcare is practised here. I will take many lessons away from this experience
Read moreKelsey Buss
University of New England 2024
"By lunchtime, I had observed three vaginal deliveries and one caesarean section. This was more than I had ever witnessed in one day in Australia on my O&G rotation."
Read moreChinmay Sharma
James Cook University 2024
"A memorable case during my time in Kathmandu was a patient admitted with severe electrical burns across his arms, back, and legs."
Read moreJohn Jenkins
University of Southampton 2023
"The biggest difference was the lack of provisions. Even though the hospital is partly funded, all patients still had to buy all medications and provisions for the doctors to treat them".
Read moreShane Zhang
University of Newcastle 2023
"Having the opportunity to take my skills overseas and learn how things work in a healthcare system that is, in many ways, completely different from my own was too good to pass up."
Read moreLexi Colebrook
Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry 2023
"My supervisors were great, really friendly and engaging and all spoke excellent English and got me involved".
Read moreNicholas Eikelboom
University of Western Australia 2019
"This was a good opportunity to get some clinical practice with plastering and minor trauma management."
Read moreMauricio Medrano
University of Queensland 2019
"The doctors and nurses are supremely knowledgeable and excellent teachers".
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