Healthcare Internships Abroad

Medical Internships Abroad

When it comes to getting a rewarding, enriching, adventurous, meaningful and memorable medical work experience abroad, the mentorship and structure of the program really matters. Our medical internships abroad are customized to suit your clinical rotation objectives and interest areas as well as your university requirements; providing you with a beneficial clinical experience overseas.

Elective Africa follows AAMC’s Guidelines for premedical and medical students providing patient care during clinical experiences abroad. The healthcare internships are suited for premed students undergraduate students, medical students, medical residents or healthcare practitioners. 

Our hospital internships in Kenya and Tanzania expose you to a health system that is different from that of your home country; with different diseases, limitations of technology, diagnostic services and treatment options.

A medical placement in Africa will: 

1. Improve your clinical skills and clinical knowledge by shadowing health professionals and guided learning activities.
2. Exposure to various healthcare specialties (depending on your interest).
3. Opportunity to witness unique conditions that you have only read in books e.g. tropical diseases.
4. Challenge your critical thinking ability and inventiveness due to limited resources in the clinics.
5. Enhance your soft skills like communication, confidence, teamwork, leadership, resilience, organising, planning, and teamwork through working with fellow students and other healthcare staff in the hospitals.
6. Give you a chance to travel, unwind, meet new people and interact with a new culture.

Choose your medical internship abroad/ medical volunteer abroad program BELOW for a worthwhile clinical rotation overseas.