medical training

A Good Resource from the University of Utah
Primer for International Health Rotations, Service Opportunities, Study Abroad Programs, Scholarships and Grants, more.
(Not necessarily Christian)

Medical Electives, Residency Options, Basic Medical Training,
Rotations, Post Graduate Training

Linking Hands
"Linking Global Partnerships in Medical Missions". A good listing of electives available in Christian hospitals
Beit Trust Cure International Hospital (Malawi, Africa)
Orthopaedic (orthopedic) and reconstructive surgery with an emphasis on children. They are a Christian hospital with a gospel ministry to the patients. Student electives available. Contact Prof Chris Lavy.
BMS World Missions
Bangladesh, Paraguay, Nepal, India - just some of the places you can go for your medical elective with BMS. Whether you are a training to be a doctor, nurse, dentist, physio or OT we will try to find a placement for you.

Center for Global Health
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health is a unique collaboration between three institutions -- the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, and the School of Nursing – that harnesses the expertise of its dedicated health and medical professionals to address a myriad of global health challenges: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, hepatitis and other threats to health, especially in developing countries.
Centro Evangélico de Medicina do Lubango (CEML) (Angola)
Evangelical Medical Centre of Lubango is a church-related health care institution and 40-bed hospital seeking to provide medical services for an estimated 50% of Angolans who currently have no alternative coverage. We host numerous specialists, medical residents, medical and pre-medical students, nurses, and others, who come to help and learn.
Charis Child Birth Midwifery Program
Independent study is an extremely valuable life skill that is fostered throughout our educational process. Facts and information are not spoon fed to the students. Rather, students are coached in how to acquire knowledge on their own. The combination of independent, hands-on, and discovery learning leads to superior results.
CMDA (Christian Medical and Dental Associations)
Placement Services for doctors.

Christian Medical College (Vellore, India)
Elective students are posted to clinical units/departments of their choice. They participate in ward rounds, clinics, demonstrations, lectures and seminars. However, they will not be able to take part in direct unsupervised patient care. Many overseas students are interested to see primary health care in rural setting.

Christian Medical Fellowship - CMF - HealthServe (UK) 
    Student Medical Electives information
Dental Training For Missions
Welcome to the most exciting course available for missionaries! In two week you will be trained and equipped to bring greatly needed dental care to some who suffer needlessly. Dental decay and gingivitis are the most common diseases in the world. Offered monthly in Texas, USA.  Video
 
Doctors on Call for Service  (DOCS)
We facilitate trips to Continuing Medical Education (CME) learning sites in Africa during which volunteers stay for several weeks to several months to teach and train. Also university credentialed residency training for physicians serving in areas of Africa where it has not been possible for them to specialize. Also, Master's Degree in Family Medicine Residency Program.

Edinburgh Medical Mission Society
Medical Electives. Grants. Opportunities in mission facilities worldwide. More here.

Ekpene Obom Hospital (Nigeria)
Began as a specialist leprosy hospital, we now also provide for more general medical needs. Medical students come here for workshops and to gain first hand experience of leprosy. Alongside the experience gained in the general hospital, this provides a excellent experience for their future medical career.

Emmanual Hospital Association 
UK based organization offers openings for medical personnel, including med and dental students, in India. Click on "Volunteers" for student electives, medical/dental/nursing/physiotherapy and other health care students. 
Enablement 
Works in the field of disability and rehabilitation management with particular concern for people with disabilities in lesser- developed countries. Conducts an International Course in Disability and Rehabilitation Management. Operational research in the field of disability, rehabilitation and development, with opportunities for undergraduate students to do electives of specific research and development projects in developing countries. Based in the Netherlands.  ;

HealthServe - Student Electives
Excellent source of information and opportunities for electives for students in the UK.

Health Training 
Post graduate training programmes in International Health. Great online searchable database. Includes thousands of modules available online for 'distance learning'.

Hospitals of Hope International
Serves the poor in Vinto, Bolivia near Cochabamba. International rotations and and preceptorships for students with interest in missions and medicine at a level II hospital in Bolivia. Family Practice, Ob/Gyn, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Orthopedics, and Pediatrics. Typical rotations are from four to six weeks.

Hopital de Meskine (Cameroon, West Africa)
Medical electives available at this hospital, where work ranges from preventive health education in unity to curative procedures (e.g., strangulated hernia repair), C-sections, corrective surgery for leprosy patients, and physical therapy. Surgery, maternity services, and general medicine along with outpatient clinic.

In His Image
Christian Family Practice Residency, domestic and foreign short term mission trips, and rotations for medical students.

INMED On-Line International Medicine Course
What to do in developing nations, where certain infectious diseases are common, but rare in the West? Where advanced diagnostic technologies, subspecialty consultants, and highly developed treatments are rarely available? Where the cultural context is different, and leadership training is lacking? We can help.

Institute for International Medicine
Physicians interested in entering medical missions often discover their education poorly prepared them to work effectively in poorer nations. INMED prepares you to serve by offering clinical rotations for med students and residents in Africa, Asia and Central America, and through didactic instruction in international health, diseases of poverty, and community health strategy.

International Health / Tropical Medicine Training Centers 
Links to institutions providing this training, in the USA and in Europe. Not necessarily Christian.

International Medical Relief  (Not necessarily Christian)
Class credits for medical students participating in abroad clinics. Many health-oriented mission trips each year to a variety of countries.

Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre  (Tanzania)
Since 1997 KCMC has become a centre of medical training and teaching attracting medical resources from around the world. Christian ethic guides and shapes the College's daily work. Medical students in their fourth year of study or above are welcome to apply for a clinical elective period. English is the language of teaching and record-keeping but applicants should note that most patients only speak Swahili. Interns and residents wishing to do a clinical elective period may also apply. More here.

Kiwoko Hospital (Uganda)
Services approximately half a million people in an area roughly half the size of Northern Ireland, and annually treats around 23,000 outpatients and around 6,000 inpatients. Medical students coming on elective are welcomed: there is a lot of hands on experience in the hospital.

 Kudjip Hospital (Highlands of Papua New Guinea)
A 100 bed hospital that has treated 50,000 people as outpatients and admitted 4300 within this last year. We offer a medical student rotation to students with an interest in mission and tropical medicine. Positions are limited and usually fill about one year in advance. Affiliated with the Nazarenes
 
Linking Hands
A student electives network in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Nepal, China, Zambia and beyond. Our goal is to make the medical student movement truly international and truly instrumental in God's advancement of his Kingdom. We help connect you to reputable and recognized mission hospitals that provide good clinical teaching, spiritual input and loads of fun!

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Training appropriate to public health workers in developing countries. MSc degrees available by correspondence. Scholarship and grants for studies in Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Biology & Control of Disease Vectors, Medical Parasitology. Overseas students accepted on the MSc courses in Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Applied Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, Infection & Health in the Tropics, and Virology, will automatically be considered for a Biomedical Initiative Training Award short course.


Machame Hospital (Moshi, Tanzania)
Machame Lutheran Hospital provides for Physicians and medical student rotations. We also seek long term medical professionals to join us in God's work here on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. We have a legacy of more than 100 years contributing to the health services in the country by running 20 hospitals and more than 160 primary health care institutions.

Mercy in Action (Philippines)  
- The School of Midwifery trains students to meet the health and spiritual needs of the developing world. No nursing background required. Students are exposed to the role of the experienced care-giver from their first day.
- The Mission Medic and Primary Health Care school designates the graduate as a mission medic and health educator able to serve in areas of the developing world where there is no doctor.

Mercy Ships
Training for Health Care Professionals and individuals interested in short, focused courses in health care. Continuing education contact hours may apply.

Mexican Medical Ministries
Each year we have a number of short-term ministry opportunities in our Medical Internship Programs, designed to provide practical experience for medical and nursing students who have completed at least one year of training. This an excellent way to explore ways in which the Lord can use your unique talents for His work.

Midwifery School 
Each student is heavily involved in other aspects of providing medical missionary care, not just to the physical body, but the spiritual as well. Outreaches included in the training. Four semesters and clinical rotations. Training in USA, Philippines. Final exam with the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) midwifery boards.

Mission Africa
Elective programs available at two local rural hospitals in Nigeria: Holley Memorial Hospital and Ekpene Obom Hospital (both are specialist hospitals where medical students come for workshops and to gain first hand experience of leprosy). Excellent opportunities.

Missionary Medicine Intensive 
A two week course designed to equip missionaries with basic diagnostic skills and appropriate treatments. above.

Mseleni Hospital (South Africa)
The largest mission hospital in Africa offers electives for senior medical school students. Contact Dr Victor Fredlund for more information.
Mukinge Hospital (Zambia)
200 beds divided between 7 separate inpatient wards for general medical/surgical, maternity (1,300 - 1400 deliveries a year), acute paediatrics, malnutrition, isolation, and TB. In addition, there is an an active out-patient department and numerous support services. Students interested in electives should contact enquiries@sim.co.uk.
Navajeevana Health Care Centre (email)
Medical and dental out patients clinic to especially low income groups in an urban setting in Dehiwela, Sri Lanka. Two to 8 weeks student electives program. We work to achieve excellence in primary care in a resource poor setting. Short term medical and dental volunteers also welcomed. Dr Jayantha Thambar Address: Navajeevana Health Care Centre, No. 1 P.T de Silva Mawatha, Station Road, Dehiwela, Sri Lanka. Email: jaytham@sltnet.lk

Newlife International School of Midwifery
A Christian school for direct-entry midwifery students. Although our school is based on a U.S. curriculum and standards outlined by the National College of Midwifery the entire training is actually done in the Philippines. Most of our students are from the United States. Part of Mercy Maternity Center Program.
Roatan Volunteer Pediatric Clinic (Honduras) Not Necessarily Christian
A modern pediatric outpatient clinic within the Roatan Public Hospital, staffed year-round with volunteer pediatricians from the U.S., rotating on a 1 month-plus basis. Also, a structured elective rotation for pediatric resident physicians in their last year of training. Transportation and housing provided.

RUDASA (Rural Doctors Association of South Africa)
(Click on Student Electives) "Many rural hospitals are willing to take health sciences students for elective attachments." "It is important to book places well in advance, as places are often limited."

Rushere Hospital (Uganda)
We're located in situated in the Kiruhura District in Ankole, Uganda, about 20 miles south of the Equator. The hospital was opened in 1992, and following an extensive building programme has nearly 100 beds.

Students, do your electives with us!
Scheer Memorial Hospital (Nepal)
This well-established facility is a great place for medical students, with one to three-month medical rotations and medical residency programs. Electives Possibilities. General, Orthopedic and Laparoscopic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics and Trauma, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology (B. P. Koirala Eye Institute), Physiotherapy, and Dentistry.

Selian Lutheran Hospital
A full-service referral hospital in Northern Tanzania offering externship and residency rotations of 1 to 2 months duration in tropical medicine and clinical parasitology. Open to medical students, residents and physicians, no age restriction.

SIM - UK
Each year SIM is able to arrange for medical students to take their elective in one of several SIM or EHA (Emmanuel Hospital Association) hospitals. During such an elective, there is opportunity to gain medical experience you wouldn't have in the UK while discovering first-hand about life in another culture. This site has listings for several such hospitals.

St. Anthony's Family Practice Residency (Oklahoma City)
Rotation program for 3rd and 4th year medical students, with an emphasis on Obstetrics.  Electives in tropical medicine, international health, etc.

Tansen Mission Hospital (165 beds, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Our excellent programme for medical elective students offers a 6-week minimum placement, allowing students to be involved first-hand in a setting very different than what they are used to. We also arrange medical placements at Okhaldhunga Community Hospital, situated in the Eastern hills of Nepal.

Valley Baptist Family Practice Residency Program (Harlingen, Texas)
We invite 3rd and 4th year medical students to join us in South Texas for a rotation in our Christ based Family Practice training program, in our clinic, on the hospital wards, and on our mission trips. Apply in August, interview in September, decisions in February. We cover interview costs!

Vital Links for Humanity
Spend up to a month at an OB/GYN, ENT hospital, or pediatric hospital in South East Asia, for hands on learning and teaching. Also, 2 - 3 week trips to Vietnam for lay people, medical, nursing, and dental students, and professionals. Teach and work at hospitals, orphanages, and schools.

World Medical Mission
The medical arm of Samaritan's Purse offers short-term opportunities for physicians, dentists and other medical personnel to volunteer in Christian hospitals and clinics around the world. Our Post-Residency Program provides support for physicians who will serve for two years in a mission hospital or clinic site. Post-residency opportunities