Medical Internships Abroad

Volunteer and Intern Abroad in Medicine

Interning abroad on a medical project is an ideal way to observe how the poorest resourced medical institutions in the third world operate. Whether you are a pre-medical student, an undergraduate, or a trained professional, you will be able to gain great insight into the hospitals, clinics and centers that we work with. When possible, we can tailor internships both to a volunteer’s level of experience and their interests.

Volunteer bandaging a patient

Medical Internships Abroad

As a medical intern, you are sure to see a huge gulf in medical standards between the developed and developing worlds. Hospitals are often poorly resourced with underpaid medical staff. This, combined with a lack of experience and funds to pay for routine medical treatment often causes the patients you see to have advanced illnesses and conditions now rarely treated in the developed world.

High School and College Interns Abroad in Medicine

You will be involved in the day-to-day running of hospitals and clinics, observing or sometimes directly assisting doctors and nurses. You might find yourself, for example, watching a caesarean in the operating room or working with a doctor on his rounds in a big city hospital. You can sometimes help out in simple but practical ways, vastly increasing your own knowledge and understanding of medical practice.

If you are in medical school and planning to do an elective please visit Medical Elective Students page.

Medical Interns and Volunteers Abroad
"The medical program was extremely beneficial and really gave me an insight into the Indian medical system. It has definitely reconfirmed my wish to become a doctor. I saw several operations that I wouldn't have seen until my fourth or fifth year at medical school, had I not taken a gap year." Olivia Wolff, Medical intern in India
Traditional Medicine Internships Abroad

In India, China and Sri Lanka, there are unrivalled opportunities for those who are interested in the practice of traditional medicine.

Many communities in developing countries rely mainly on treatments taken directly from medicinal plants, where facilities are sparse. In this day and age, some experience of cures and preventions that have been used for thousands of years, using locally available natural products, is valuable for those of us who live in the drug-dependent west.

You can opt to combine traditional and western practices during your internship abroad, thereby creating an all around medical experience. We can also arrange for you to spend some time in an Acupuncture clinic in Mongolia.