Medical internships abroad

Medical internships abroad

RealStep offers a wide range of NGO internships, including medical internships abroad under which you can also find nursing and healthcare internships.

This is the ideal opportunity to include, as part of your studies, an experience both in the field and internationally.

It is not always easy to find such projects, and many medical students take a gap year to go and live an experience abroad.

RealStep combines the desire to go abroad with the undertaking of a nursing internship abroad, thus optimising the experience of students in the healthcare field.

A supervising tutor will oversee your project and evaluate you at the end, guaranteeing real support from the beginning to the end of the programme.

Specifically, what are the interns’ tasks?

Depending on the destination and the programme, the tasks vary. Generally, you may undertake the following duties:

• Assisting healthcare staff with their daily tasks.
• Contributing to each patient’s daily medical report.
• Participating in meal distribution.
• Setting up dietary plans or recovery programmes for patients.

An international professional experience

It is the ideal opportunity to put all your knowledge into practice, with field missions. Between medical internships, nursing internships abroad and other placements for medical students, you have a wide choice!

RealStep offers such missions in:

• Asia
• Latin America
• Africa

We help you choose the project that suits you best, based on your skills, expertise, motivation and preferences.

These medical internships thus allow students to develop both personally and professionally in a multicultural environment.

Ethical projects with a lasting impact:

Training with RealStep also means committing to projects that have both a positive and lasting impact on the local community. The hospitals in which participants work are understaffed, and their help is therefore most welcome. The main objective, in addition to providing you with the most enriching training, is to contribute to the goal of access to healthcare for all. From a professional standpoint, nursing internships abroad in NGOs are guarantees of autonomy, mobility and commitment for your future employers!

The skills acquired during a nursing internship abroad

Participating in nursing or medical internships abroad with RealStep offers you a unique opportunity to acquire a wide range of professional and interpersonal skills as a student. These internships are not limited solely to the application of theoretical knowledge learned in class but also provide practical field training in varied and often demanding medical environments.

With a nursing placement, you have the opportunity to learn and refine essential skills such as patient care, the delivery of basic and advanced nursing procedures, and the management of emergency situations. You will be exposed to a great diversity of medical cases, which will enable you to develop your ability to assess and treat a variety of medical conditions.

By working alongside local healthcare professionals, you will also learn to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team. This also allows you to gain valuable experience in interprofessional communication, care coordination and the resolution of complex medical challenges.

In addition to clinical skills, nursing internships abroad also promote the development of your intercultural competencies. Students are confronted with cultures and medical practices different from those to which they are accustomed, encouraging them to develop adaptability, cultural sensitivity and the ability to work in diverse environments.

Finally, these nursing internships give you the opportunity to strengthen your transferable skills such as problem-solving, decision-making and time management. By working in sometimes demanding conditions and with limited resources, interns develop their ability to adapt quickly to changing situations and to take initiative to provide quality care.

Ultimately, nursing internships abroad provide you with comprehensive training that goes beyond academic knowledge. They allow you to develop essential professional and interpersonal skills. A set of skills to acquire and experiences to live that will undoubtedly mark your professional and personal journey!