University medicine’s students are encouraged to go for Internship Abroad to gain experience and practice the theories they had learned in school.
Georgetown medicine students are sent to countries in Asia and Africa to practice what they had learned in school. Yet, they were confronted by the harsh realities in these countries; they treat patients who looked at them with hope and love.
Medicine Interns were surprised on how the people they visited accepted their fate with such enthusiasm. Medicine Interns from Georgetown University was referred to as Georgetown’s ambassadors for health by Dr. Irma Frank. These students chose to go for Internship Abroad in countries like rural Australia, Dominican Republic, India, Uganda and other parts of the world.
Intern Medicine students pack up their bags with an idea of helping other people through proper health care. What surprises them is that they receive more that they gave. They come back as mature and open minded would-be doctors. The harsh realities of the health care situations in the underdeveloped countries opened their eyes to the other side of a coin- that is poor health care situations that results from poverty.
Students who visited places with barely the rudiments of proper health care came back with their ideas on how to uplift health care in some parts of the world. They became advocates for change. They became not just fulfilled interns but interns with dreams of going back and helping more.
A medicine student who went to one underdeveloped country had concluded that besides the stark evidence of poverty in places that they had visited- the people and culture of these countries made their visit more meaningful and enriching. They learned that sometimes there are situations that they were interns no more but doctors.
Beside Africa, another splendid place to go for Internship Abroad is the Philippines. Chosen well, Philippine countryside setting indeed will inspire not only the doctors in you but the photographers in you. Uganda, Africa also offers great places to go safari if these intern medicine students of ours will take a break from a days work and widen their horizons and take a notice of the beautiful surroundings around them.
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