Pre-Nursing Shadowing Internships

This internship in Mombasa exceeded all of my expectations. My prior experience with patient care during my domestic/university placements involved patients and cases far less critical and complex so the knowledge and skills I learnt in Mombasa are invaluable for me completing my degree and moving into my career. Being able to assist with births, resuscitations and see full body electrical burns are things as a student I was yet to even observe so being able to assist in the care was awesome. No...

My name is Simon, I undertook a medical elective in Mombasa, Kenya in 2013 with two other friends through Elective Africa. I can honestly say that it was one of the best experiences of my life. Not only was I able to have the experience of working/learning and helping in one of their hospitals, but they provided the opportunity for us to volunteer at a local primary school. We taught children and partook in school activities like dancing, athletics and sport. To see young and poor children havin...

Time of my life experience. At the airport I was picked up by one of the staff members to assist me to the accomodation. First night at the residence: was exhausted and wanted to sleep and felt a bit awkward as one of the staff members wanted me to go out to town with the others, but we luckily we ended up staying home. Made a good connection with some of the staff members and allso the other students. In Malindi we were too many girls and some troubles arised. This was not very well handled by ...