vacancy details

Medical Internship

Company:
Agape Volunteers

Location:
Kenya

Benefits:
Accommodation, food, full Agape experience and a chance to complete your elective.

Start:
Various Start Dates

Duration:
Various project lengths

Description

As a medical volunteer, you will be working in a clinic or hospital supported by Agape, helping to lessen the burden on the stretched resources of the medical service.

You will spend your first few days shadowing the duty doctor and learning African techniques before beginning to perform procedures under supervision. Once you feel comfortable working independently, you will be carrying out a wider range of duties.

General responsibilities for medical volunteers include taking rounds, prescribing and distributing basic medicines, dressing wounds and assisting births. Working with HIV sufferers will be a key part of your duties, monitoring patients as they pass through five levels of treatment, and giving them your support. Tuberculosis is also a widespread disease, and you will be assisting in its diagnosis and treatment.

Requirements

Minimum age 18, you must have completed at least one year of medical school.