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 Simon Raffl. Before the beginning of my 6th year at the Medical University of Vienna, I decided to do an additional internship somewhere abroad, and I eventually chose to go to Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. I was eager to work in an English-speaking environment, and my interest […]

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 Raphael Reinecke Students of the Medical University of Vienna (MUV) have the possibility to do electives abroad in their 5th and 6th year of study in the maximal extent of one and a half years in total. There are two options: one can apply for a EU-subsidized ERASMUS+ program […]

by Hatice Soysal. As part of our studies at the Medical University of Vienna, we are doing clinical electives for 12 months in our final year of medical school. It is up to you, whether you want to do these abroad or at home. How awesome is this, that you can […]

by Heather Phillips. I am a nurse from California, United States. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to nursing school in San Diego. I always knew that I wanted to live and work abroad for a period of my young adulthood. I chose to work in the UK […]

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 […]