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Global Medical Health Internship

This rotation is designed to enable participants to holistically experience the Zimbabwe healthcare system.

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What's the programme about?

The global health programme takes place at four different hospitals across the country. Students will experience the facilities provided by a private boutique hospital in the leafy Harare suburbs, two of the largest public hospitals in the country as well as rural hospitals run by religious missions. This rotation is designed to enable participants to holistically experience the Zimbabwe healthcare system. What you gain at the four hospitals in terms of your learning and observational experience will be vastly different. The rotation encompasses surgical specialities, laboratory analysis, pharmacological and radiological services, as well as rehabilitation and integrative medicine. We will always prioritise your first choice of rotation, however, this is subject to the availability of physicians within your chosen specialty. Your Tiritose Placement Advisor will give you the options available during the time of your booking.

You can choose from the following available clinical rotations:

  • Departments: Neurosurgery – Urology – Dermatology – Physiotherapy – General Internal Medicine
  • Neurology: including the clinic and psychiatry unit – Obstetrics – Gynaecology – Paediatrics – Pathology
  • Clinics: Endocrinology – Internal Medicine – Infectious Diseases – HIV
  • Units: Stroke – Renal – Burns – Intensive Care – Leprosy Centre – Opportunistic Infections
  • Schools: Nursing

Some of the hospitals have a 24/7 casualty department that caters to all emergencies. There are also outpatient departments that review patients status and admit or discharge them.

What are the benefits of signing up?
  • Work alongside healthcare professionals in a developing country with its own unique strengths and challenges.
  • Experience public and private medical facilities.
  • Participate in treating patients in urban and rural healthcare settings.
  • Learn how the Zimbabwe healthcare system functions and how different or similar the system is compared to your own.
  • Learn from people who overcome barriers and create solutions without overly relying on a developed system.
  • Learn about the cultural limitations of practicing medicine in Zimbabwe.
  • Strengthen your resume and the competitiveness of applications for continuing education.
  • Gaining unique global experience by putting what you’ve learned to good use in a practical setting outside of the framework of your local environment.

Here's a layout of a typical day in the programme

Where will you stay?

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What do you need to apply?

Tiritose supports volunteers and interns coming to Zimbabwe and ensures that the experience is equally rewarding for yourself and our programme.

Intern – education /skills/work experience required

  • Only students currently enrolled in medical school or Residency are eligible for the programme as it is clinical in nature.
  • Experience within a medical or health setting would be beneficial.
  • Positive, can-do attitude.
  • Skills:  Communication, organisational, reading and writing.
  • Students or residents need to be comfortable with rural village life if they choose the rural hospital option.

You’ll need to send proof of your:

  • Education, skills and work experience in the form of a CV, documentation from your school and reference letters.
  • Current enrollment in a professional, accredited, medical or healthcare programme of education

We’ll also need:

  • A list of references we can contact to confirm your experience, organisational skills and reading and writing ability – especially when it comes to interacting with patients and taking histories to have an initial online interview with you to assess your communication skills

programme highlights

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WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

With us, you can gain real-life global health experience. Complete your clinical rotation internship in Zimbabwe and learn how to apply your skills in a setting where you can really make a difference to the patients and your clinical skills. The unique experiential learning programme we offer will allow you to become part of a dynamic healthcare team.

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Testimonials

BENEFIT THAT GOES FULL-CIRCLE – WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS HAVE SHARED:

This has truly been a life changing experience, especially because it was my first trip outside of the United States. The program taught me to be more open to taking new experiences, exposed me to paediatrics at the children’s rehabilitation unit, which I did not think I would enjoy.
Stuart SmithStudent
Coming to Zimbabwe for my medical internship and working with Tiritose was an interesting experience and I really enjoyed the exposure to the healthcare system, the people and the excursions
Necrisha RoachStudent
I was pretty happy the whole time and the Tiritose staff were very supportive. What I enjoyed most about doing my internship in Zimbabwe is that it was a new continent for me, a whole new perspective on medicine, a better appreciation for the luxuries of US.
Christopher ZhengStudent
What I enjoyed most about doing my medical clinical rotation internship in Zimbabwe was seeing the differences and similarities in how medicine is practiced here vs. the U.S. and differences and similarities in disease incidence.
Sola MorakinyoStudent
The programme was also very organised. Other than waiting on our supervising physicians at the Children’s hospital on some of the days, it was a pretty good internship. Oh! And it was made better by watching Black Panther in Africa.
Van Don Williams IIStudent
. I really liked the balance between the fun staff and the clinical rotations at the various hospitals in the city and the rural placement just blew me away. I was exposed to medical conditions that I would otherwise not come across back home.
Jessica HippolyteStudent
I had a wonderful time in Zimbabwe. There are times I find myself fantasizing about going back. The administrative staff were great and really took the time to make the trip as personalized as possible.
Martins Ayoola-Adeola Students
TimeActivity
07h30 Hearty breakfast
08h00 Arrive at work & get cracking
10h30 Tea Break
11h00 Staff Meeting
13h00 Lunch Hour
14h00 Continue cracking on the tasks for the day
16h30 Home Time
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