In summer 2007 I have two months to spend doing any kind of medicine any where round the world.
and the problem is...I have no idea where I'd like to go or what I'd like to do!
I know it seems like a long way away but it's not really as I am competing for places with medical students from all over the world as most medical schools have their electives during the summer months. and loads of my friends already have placements.
In an ideal situation I'd like to work with Catholic doctors in a semi-poor, but safe, country where the locals speak English. I'd like to get a lot of hands-on experience and so learn a lot of clinical medicine.
But I can't seem to find anywhere.
I have asked St. Joseph's help, and I'm trying to be patient, but I just thought I'd put it out there on my blog in case anyone has any ideas of specific hospitals, religious orders or organisations that I could approach.
I may have to sacrifice one of my criteria (e.g. working in a Catholic context, as I really can't seem to find anything on that front).
So any help or ideas at all would be greatly appreciated!
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Antonia,
Why don't you contact the Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy at Llantarnam Abbey in Wales it is their provincial house. here's a link http://www.geocities.com/ssjannecy1/index.html
Good luck
FR P
Antonia,
Why don't you contact the Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy at Llantarnam Abbey in Wales it is their provincial house. here's a link http://www.geocities.com/ssjannecy1/index.html
Good luck
FR P
I did mine in a mission hospital - which although wasn't Catholic was certainly very spiritual (Christian). Have a look at my account on my bog - November's Archive "My Medical Elective in South Africa". There was a Catholic doctor there called Augustine who took me to mass when his car worked. I even had lunch with the bishop on Pentecost! But try hard to find a Catholic mission hospital - there are bound to be loads around.
HI Antonia,
You could consider India
1. It's got many catholic organisations
2.It's semi poor
3.And mostly becoz of the big population you would get a lot of experience.
4.In all of the cities the people are fluent in English
Good luck with whatever you decide.
As St. Joe led you to lifeteen which led you to me, I take a personal interest in this. Around the US try:
www.chausa.org (the Catholic Health Association of the US)
in particular:
www.cchcs.org (Caritas Christi Health Care S____) - I live between St. E's & Norwood
www.catholicmedicalcenter.org - I'm thinking about going to school in this city but live nowhere near it. ;) Just figured the website would be a dead giveaway. :)
PS Much as I'd love to have you here ... if I were you, I'd take some of the other advice & go to Africa or India or Alaska. It's only two months - I say give it everything you've got!
You can come here and stay with my family!!!
We've had medical students from Britain and Germany before (not to mention Canada). We're safe and English and. . . well, sadly if you work with our aboriginal populations you'll see your fair share of relative poverty.
My parents would definitely put you and your husband up. We just had a medical student couple from Germany staying with us this past summer.
Come experience Canadian rural medicine! It's beautiful out here. . .
:-)
Or you could drop a line to the Medical Missionaries of Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland.
They run that hospital, but they are a missionary order as well.
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