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Medical & Healthcare Placements Overseas
Projects Abroad offers safe and structured medical and healthcare volunteer placements throughout the developing world.
Our placements are tailored to suit your interests, skills and level of experience as to maximise the benefits to both the community you will work with, and yourself. We support hundreds of hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres throughout Asia, Africa, the Pacific and South America, and run our own medical outreach programs in rural communities to people who either don’t have access to healthcare, or can’t afford it.
Often the settings have very basic resources and use techniques and treatment methods that you may not be used to, so you should come with an open mind and be prepared to learn new things.
Overseas Volunteer Healthcare Placements
Whether you’re a student, professional, or haven’t even started studying yet, we’ll find a placement for you that’s challenging, worthwhile and where you can have a positive impact in the community you work with.
All our placements include:
- Pre-departure support
- English speaking clinical supervisor
- Organised, tailored placement
- Accommodation
- All of your meals
- Comprehensive travel, medical and indemnity insurance
- 24 hour support by Projects Abroad staff within your chosen destination
- Hassle free – meaning you can jump right in when you arrive!
Have a look at the specialities below, and if you are not sure whether we have a placement that’s right for you, just give the Australian office a call or email and we would be happy to chat to you about your requirements.
Medical Electives and Pre-Clinical Experience
Whether you are working in a busy multi-departmental hospital, a small women’s and children’s clinic, or helping out on an outreach program, you can be assured that your medical placement will be tailored to suit your interests and level of experience.
The placements are very flexible, we have opportunities in most clinical fields and you can choose to specialise in a certain area, or rotate around a variety of different departments.
Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Placements
Volunteering on a physiotherapy or occupational therapy placement will give you practical experience working with people suffering a range of conditions, some rarely seen in the Western world, and others which you may be more familiar with.
There is a wide variety of institutions we support, from large hospital with specialist departments, orthopaedic hospitals, to small rehabilitation centres and outreach programs. The placements are flexible, so if you have a certain area you’re interested in, then let us know and we can tailor the placement to suit you.
Nursing and Midwifery Placements
Our nursing and midwifery placements are all about the delivery of, and education in primary healthcare.
You may find yourself working with HIV patients, kids suffering malnutrition, in a busy maternity clinic, or in a general hospital ward, at a women’s and children’s clinic, on an outreach program or even at an orphanage. The large variety of placements enables us to tailor your elective to suit your level of experience and match your interests.
Dentistry Placements
We offer opportunities to gain practical work in general dentistry, whether that’s in a large multi-departmental hospital, a small dental clinic or on an outreach program you. You may find yourself giving a presentation to a group of children on the importance of oral hygiene, or assisting a professional local dentist in the surgery room.
Whatever the case, you can be sure that your placement will have been tailored to suit your level of experience and interests.