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CLINICAL/HEALTH INTERNSHIP/VOLUNTEER PROGRAM IN NEPALLengthMedical Tour: Minimum of 2 weeks and Maximum of 6 weeks.Medical Electives: Minimum of 2 weeks and Maximum of 5 months.Our Medical Volunteer Program places doctors, nurses, and medical school students in hospitals and clinics in Nepal. You work in either a urban or rural setting, providing primary care to locals in your specialty.We have standing requests from local facilities for Internists, Urologists, Surgeons, Oncologists, Opthamologists, Nurses, Dentists, and EMT's. You will play a critical role in the villages and towns where you'll serve.Medical school students' activities will include things like following doctors on their rounds, exploring different treatments for simple ailments, providing physical therapy, and participating in vaccination programs.Depending on the timing of your visit, you will have the opportunity to visit large general hospitals, maternity clinics, children's hospitals, HIV/AIDS wards, and alternative-medicine clinics. Your visits will be given some context by local doctors and nurses who will discuss issues such as typical illnesses/treatments and the general state of health care in the country.Requirements :Qualifications : Medical volunteers need to be either currently studying or practicing in the medical field, which includes doctors, nurses, EMT's, medical students, and nursing students.

Teaching EnglishProgram Length - From 2 Weeks to 5 months Volunteers will be placed with a Nepali family in one of the program village. The host family will live no more than a half hour walk from the school. Volunteers will teach at the local school for 2 to 6 hours each day, six days a week, with a break on Saturdays. The school children will be mostly 10 to 16 years of age and have basic English skills.Depending on the assignment, you will either teach alone or co-teach with a Nepali English Language teacher. Class size ranges are from 10 to 80 students.Volunteers enrolling in this Program will also be expected to share their own teaching methodologies as well helping the school's teachers to develop their own conversational English skills. To be successful, volunteers need to have a good knowledge of grammar. Previous teaching and/or TOEFL experience is a plus.In some placements, volunteers maybe able to provide informal teaching and lectures to youth or women's groups for 1 to 2 hours a day. Program fees depend on the length of stay

If you have little experience, but a keen interest in journalism, a placement on the Nepalii newspaper can provide experience in all aspects of producing a publication – from researching & writing articles, to editing, lay-out, printing & distribution. For the more experienced, you’ll quickly be able to produce your own features, & perhaps take on the role of an editor. The paper is run by our experienced journalists so, whatever standard you are, you’ll have our full support.Volunteering at the Nepali media is a tremendous opportunity to gain valuable journalism experience in a completely different & hugely interesting culture.