Medical and healthcare internships abroad

Medical and healthcare internships are an excellent way to deepen your knowledge through hands-on experience, especially when working abroad. By engaging in projects in various countries, you'll encounter diverse technologies, techniques, and medical practices. This not only enhances your resume but also provides cultural immersion and a broader understanding of global healthcare practices. Enrich your expertise in medical healthcare by taking the first RealStep.

Medical internships abroad with RealStep

RealStep offers a wide range of internships in NGOs, specifically:

• nursing placements abroad
• medical placements abroad.

This is the perfect opportunity to include both on-the-ground and international experience as part of your studies. It's not always easy to find such projects, and many medical students take a gap year to go and experience life abroad. RealStep combines the desire to travel and the completion of a medical internship abroad, and thus optimises the experience of students in the field of health.

An internship supervisor will follow your project and evaluate you in the long term, guaranteeing you real support from the beginning to the end of the program.

What are the missions of interns in the medical field?

The missions vary depending on the destination and the program, but overall, you can find the following tasks:

• Assist the nursing staff in their daily tasks.
• Contribute to each patient's daily medical report.
• Participate in the distribution of meals.
• Implement diets or recovery programs for patients.

An international professional experience

This is the perfect opportunity to put your knowledge into practice, with real experience in the field. Between medical internship, nursing internship abroad and other internships for medical students, there is a wide choice!

Locations for medical internships

RealStep offers such assignments in:

• Asia
• Latin America
• Africa.

We help you choose the project that best suits you, based on your skills, know-how, willingness and preferences.

For example, we offer a nursing internship in Thailand or a nursing and medical internship in Namibia.

These medical internships thus allow students to develop both personally and professionally, in a multicultural environment.

Ethical projects with a lasting impact

Training with RealStep also means getting involved in projects that have a positive and lasting impact on the local community. The hospitals in which the participants work are understaffed, and your help would therefore be welcome. The main objective, in addition to providing you with the most enriching training, is to contribute to the objective of access to care for all. From a professional point of view, nursing internships abroad in NGOs are demonstrations of autonomy, mobility but also commitment for your future employers!

Benefits of medical internships abroad

Medical internships provide hands-on experience in clinical settings, allowing you to apply and refine your skills in real-world scenarios. They also enhance your resume and offer valuable insight. Other benefits include:

• Gain experience
• Communication skills
• Opportunity to travel
• Increased medical confidence

Benefits of nursing placements abroad

Theory into practice

Taking part in nursing placements abroad or in the medical field with RealStep offers you a unique opportunity to acquire a wide range of professional and interpersonal skills as a student.

• These placements not only apply the theoretical knowledge acquired in the classroom, but also offer practical training in the field in varied and often demanding medical environments.

Nursing care

With a nursing placement you have the opportunity to learn and develop essential skills such as caring for patients, carrying out basic and advanced nursing care, and managing emergency situations.

• You will be exposed to a wide variety of medical cases, allowing you to develop your ability to assess and treat a variety of medical conditions.

Multidisciplinary team

By working alongside local healthcare professionals, you will also learn to collaborate effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

• You will also gain valuable experience in inter-professional communication, coordinating care and solving complex medical problems.

Intercultural skills

In addition to clinical skills, nursing placements abroad also foster the development of your intercultural skills.

• Students are confronted with medical cultures and practices that are different from those to which they are accustomed, which encourages them to develop their adaptability, cultural sensitivity and ability to work in diverse environments.

Transferable skills

Finally, these nursing placements give you the opportunity to develop transferable skills such as problem solving, decision making and time management.

• Working in sometimes demanding conditions and with limited resources, trainees develop their ability to adapt quickly to changing situations and take the initiative to provide quality care.

Why nursing placements abroad?

Nursing placements abroad offer you a comprehensive training program that goes beyond academic knowledge. They enable you to develop essential professional and interpersonal skills. A range of skills to acquire and experiences to live through that will undoubtedly leave their mark on your professional and personal journey!

Examples of RealStep medical internship programs

• Learning about the Indonesian medical system with two programs. The education program in schools in the Ubud region and medical program to assist caregivers in a local hospital. Learn more about these programs here.
• Nursing internships in India for students who wish to pursue a career as health professionals
• Nursing internship in Namibia. Assisting a doctor and a nurse in their local clinic in daily activities.
• Nursing internship in Sri Lanka in a hospital setting. It is adaptable to nursing students, physiotherapy students, doctors, nurses, paediatricians, etc.