VSN Nepal - Medical Elective in Nepal

  Nepal

• Kathmandu: 
Kathmandu
• Pokhara: 
Pokhara

Term: Spring, Summer, Throughout the year 
Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: 01/01/2009

Description: Health and Sanitation Awareness program in Nepal

In our medical internship program in Nepal, interested medical students may also get involved in our health awareness program.They will conduct health education on proper health-care and sanitation with women groups, youth clubs, other local organizations and school children. In addition, they will provide HIV/Aids awareness, First-Aid information to the local people in rural villages and thereby providing them with a practical life-skill. Similar awarenss education will be given to children, by Groups, in government schools, lasting from several days to a week in duration. Again, the Groups' major focus will be to educate and mobilize community groups who can then pass the information onto the community at large. Community and School based health awareness programHIV/Aids awareness.

- Community heath education activities
- School health education activities
- Anti smoking program
- Oral heath program
- Reproduction health and sexual education
- First aid training and FA box distribution

Qualifications: Medical Elective in Nepal/ Medical Internship Program in Nepal

Volunteer Society Nepal offers a Medical/Health Internship Program in Nepal for premedical and medical students, junior doctors, nurses, paramedic and public health students to take part in our health/ medical internship program within the country who are really eager to serve the many unprivileged Nepali people and take a great working experience in health sector in Nepal.

Volunteers and medical students will be involved in one or more of the following programs:

- Working in the Health Post/ Clinic/ Hospital in Nepal
- Health students will be assigned to clinic, health post, community hospital, hospital and other health institutions in Nepal. These are run by the government, local community and VSN in both rural and urban settings.

VSN health internship Nepal program provides health students to get hands on clinical work experience with experienced health assistants, doctors, nurses or some combination within. Your daily work will include helping to perform the health staffs' job. It will also involve researches of common diseases and health issues. Students will get the opportunity to learn about the basic medication system in Nepal. The work will be daily, 3 to 5 hours, 6 days a week.The Health institutions provide health services to the poor and marginalized people in the community and students will observe and practice following activities:

Health Post Based Activities

- General daily clinic
- MCH Family planning (Temporary devices)
- Immunization
- Anti-natal and postnatal clinics
- Health educationHealth post based normal deliveries
- Immunization
- Pharmacy
- Simple surgeries
- Community oral health Clinic
- Nutritional Rehabilitation center
- Health Post based nutrition follow up
- TB Clinic

- Maternal And Child Health Care
- Immunization
- Under 5 health post based delivery
- Antennal care
- Normal home and health post based delivery
- Identification and referal of high risk preganancy
- Family Planning Services DMPACOCN orplant
- Condom distribution
- General OPD Services
- General clinicPharmacy
- Dressing and injection
- Minor surgery
- TB dots clinic Identification
- Counseling
- Treatment
- Follow up
- Defaulter
- Tracing

Health Camp in Nepal

VSN conducts regular health camps in different places regularly, Part of medical / health internship program will be deployment to work in health camps for a predetermined amount of time: 1 day to 3 days. (students will work with their Nepali experience medical personnel. The students' responsibilities are to distribute medicine, taking patients' history, general physical checking and consult with citizens about health-care.

Through this Health camp, poor and marginalized people in the community will be provided general health services and students will observe and practice following activities:
- Examining patients
- Providing genearal medicines
- Identification and referal if needed
- Immunization
- Education on oral hygiene
- DMPA, COC Pills, condom distribution

Cost in US$: USD 600

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 18 to 65

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Nepal Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Resume

Volunteer Society Nepal's Mission Statement: Volunteer Society Nepal is an organization, which has the sole purpose of providing the best service to the people who want to enjoy a great experience by working as a volunteer in Nepal. VSN seeks to address issues of literacy, poverty and gender imbalance in areas which are poorly resourced. VSN also coordinates construction, health, environmental and education projects throughout economically poor areas of Nepal. These projects provide cultural exchange opportunities for national and international volunteers assisting in the development of Nepal.

Year Founded: 2004