Hi all
I am a 3rd year medical student and we are required to do a 4 week elective in October this year. We can do pretty much anything we want, as long as we can link it to medicine in some way and can produce a good-quality report out of it at the end.
I want to do something relevant. I don't just want to do a half-arsed project to get it over with.
1 idea I've had is to spend a week each in a 1st world, 3rd world and developing country hospital and compare them in terms of mortality, access to basic equipment by health-care staff, profiles of the average patient that visit each hospital [socioeconomic profiles as well as the general type of complaint they have], public health initiatives backing the hospitals in each country as well as socioeconomic/developmental structures backing the health-care systems in each country etc.
I'm struggling to think of more ideas though so that I have a few more options from which to choose. I would preferably like to link it to Public Health in some way, and it should be an idea which can easily be carried out and sustained over 4 full weeks and from which a decent report can be compiled.
One student climbed Kilimanjaro and did a report on the changing health status of each climber throughout the climb, just to give you an idea of how flexible the project can be.
Does anyone have solid, relevant ideas?
I am a 3rd year medical student and we are required to do a 4 week elective in October this year. We can do pretty much anything we want, as long as we can link it to medicine in some way and can produce a good-quality report out of it at the end.
I want to do something relevant. I don't just want to do a half-arsed project to get it over with.
1 idea I've had is to spend a week each in a 1st world, 3rd world and developing country hospital and compare them in terms of mortality, access to basic equipment by health-care staff, profiles of the average patient that visit each hospital [socioeconomic profiles as well as the general type of complaint they have], public health initiatives backing the hospitals in each country as well as socioeconomic/developmental structures backing the health-care systems in each country etc.
I'm struggling to think of more ideas though so that I have a few more options from which to choose. I would preferably like to link it to Public Health in some way, and it should be an idea which can easily be carried out and sustained over 4 full weeks and from which a decent report can be compiled.
One student climbed Kilimanjaro and did a report on the changing health status of each climber throughout the climb, just to give you an idea of how flexible the project can be.
Does anyone have solid, relevant ideas?
