As a background and introduction for those who are unfamiliar with my trip, I am off to Iringa, Tanzania (the map below indicates where I will be) on Friday, May 30th and participating in a medical placement through the month of June. I will be staying in Iringa at the Gap Medics house with approximately 40 other students from different countries and will be working at Iringa Regional Hospital. Here, I will shadowing doctors in different departments in addition to attending "global health tutorials", which are classes to teach us about local health concerns and challenges.
On the first week, I will be in the outpatient department, which is similar to a hospital emergency department and on the second week I will be shadowing doctors in the internal female medicine department. My final two weeks, I will be in pediatrics and surgery. For now, those are all the background details... more to come when I arrive!
*For more information about the program, hospital, etc. the following links are helpful (Mama and Papa, check them out)
http://www.gapmedics.com/destinations/tanzania
http://www.gapmedics.com/programs/pre-medicine
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