Anatomy of an Awesome Medical Elective

Your medical elective should be an experience of a lifetime! As part of your training, you have a four-to-eight week window to travel anywhere in the world and get some clinical experience in any medical field that interests you.  If you do want to make a difference or want to practise medicine with only your medical knowledge and your stethoscope, then volunteering in an overseas hospital or clinic is the way to go. But where do you start when trying to plan such a trip? Approaching a medi