If the American postdoc has all too many distractions, the experience of the overseas trainee in the U.S. can be even rougher.
Emergency medicine has long been practised in many forms and to a high standard across South Africa without any formal recognition, and indeed elective periods in South Africa have long been seen as a valuable addition to any overseas trainee's curriculum vitae.
Pre- and post-operative plastic surgical input was provided by local consultant plastic surgeons but with support from overseas plastic surgical trainees (Tables 2, 4).
During this third year, many trainees undertook overseas attachments in Australia or New Zealand that were either employed training or observer roles.
Later in the movie, the trainees, before going overseas, assemble to watch Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," and when Robert Duvall and his men come roaring over the water in their helicopters and attack a small village, the trainees shout along with the "Ride of the Valkyries" on the soundtrack, stomping and cheering.
Initial training (basic and advanced) is carried out in Sri Lanka before the trainees are sent for overseas training.
At the formal handover ceremony, Prince Charles bequeathed Britain's last big overseas domain to Jiang Zemin, a former trainee at the Stalin Auto Works in Moscow and now head of the world's last major, albeit zealously capitalist, Communist Party.
While the ideal would be to recruit and train in-country specialists, if there is a general shortage of them, it would seem feasible to widen the pool of potential trainees to include volunteers from overseas who are prepared to make long-term commitments to working in medically deprived parts of the world like Burundi.
The quotes and analyses in this publication offer important viewpoints that should be considered by trainees who will participate in these overseas experiences.
(20 T) The optimal timing for overseas participation was also mentioned in relation to trainee expectations.
