by Teresa Anzböck. In the summer between my 4th and 5th year of medical school, I completed a one-month clinical elective in Paediatrics and Neonatology at Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta. I had different reasons for choosing Malta as the destination for my paediatric elective. In Malta, English is […]

by Dounia Mettri. Why America? This is probably the easiest question for me to answer. Ever since I started medical school, I knew I wanted to go to America. I’ve always dreamed big and America is THE country if you have big dreams and goals. It’s the country where dreams […]

by Alina Wiedergut. Motivation  Between my third and fourth year of medical school, I decided to apply for an internship at an emergency ward of the “Krankenhaus Köpenick” in Berlin, Germany. I chose Germany, because as an Austrian medical student I was very curious about working habits and teaching attitudes […]

by Marie-Sophie Kaltenbrunner. Some time ago I had the fantastic opportunity to spend three months in beautiful Italy. During my 5th year of medical school I decided to visit a great city in the south of Italy called Naples. I completed three months elective in the subjects Gynaecology, Ophthalmology/ENT and […]

   by Alexander Pichler. From February to March 2018 I was doing a two-months clerkship at the Department of Radiology in the hospital Vivantes Klinik am Urban. This hospital is a part of the Vivantes Hospital Group and a teaching hospital of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.I chose Berlin to become […]

by Jakob Riedl. In summer 2015 a good friend of mine and I decided to do a clinical elective abroad. After reading plenty of elective reports we chose the Karapitiya Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, for our internship. There were a few reasons for our choice. First of all, English […]