Working in Uganda was an opportunity of a lifetime. When I learned the program offered me an opportunity to use my paramedic skills in a completely different culture and environment, I applied right away.

Nine students from the course were chosen to go. We stayed for nearly three weeks in a rural town called Iganga in the south.

We worked first in the town’s only hospital, which served the whole district. I gained a broad range of experience working on the various wards and in the operating theatre. I also worked in a maternity clinic with expectant and new mothers and their babies.

The whole process was very character-building and gave me training I never imagined I would get.

Since returning from Uganda, I realise how much I love travelling. This year, I have organised a group of my classmates and friends to go to Nepal for a nearly a month to work as medical volunteers.

Obtaining clinical practise experience overseas was invaluable because this is the kind of job I can take anywhere in the world.

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