Electives, students, volunteers

Information for people wanting to spend time at Macha Mission Hospital. Medical students, medical residents, college graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to apply for clinical electives.

Medicine in the Tropics

Medicine in the Tropics, Rotation Report, by Kevin Driver
Macha Mission Hospital, Macha, Zambia
March - April 2007

Macha Mission Hospital
When looking for a site to rotate through for my tropical medicine elective, there were several features that drew me to Macha. I was looking for a place where I could fully experience medicine as practiced in the tropics, somewhere with the resources to diagnose and treat common diseases but limited enough to be authentic to the setting of a developing country and a place for me to hone my clinical skills. I also looked for a hospital that would be open and oriented to medical students, so that I would have ample support and supervision, but also be able to practice with autonomy and thus really be a benefit to a medically underserved community. I feel that Macha fit all of these expectations.