Tanzania

Tanzania is the perfect choice for a first experience of tropical medicine in Africa. Lacking the equipment and resources more developed countries enjoy, doctors and nurses here have adapted to deliver the best possible front-line healthcare in challenging conditions – making it a fantastic place for students to experience first hand the sharp end of clinical medicine and surgery.

Colourful indigenous cultures still thrive here as they have done for centuries… Even our security guards at the Gap Medics houses are Masai warriors! The influence of tribal cultures and traditional medicine practices are also evident in cases you’ll see in the hospitals, adding even greater value to the learning experience.

Our twin bases in Iringa and Morogoro are both wonderfully friendly and safe towns, set among the rugged hills of the southern highlands. Iringa offers easy access to the stunning wildlife and untamed wilderness of Ruaha National Park, meaning you can finish work on Friday and be spotting elephant, lion and giraffe at a waterhole by sunset!

Morogoro is perfectly placed for weekend trips to the paradise island of Zanzibar, world famous for its snorkeling, scuba diving and white sand beaches. The location of the house and hospital give you the best of both – a genuine experience of African community life off the tourist trail during the week, and dolphin spotting as your soak up the Indian Ocean sunshine at the weekend!

Our Tanzania programme can accommodate 123 students per week making it a great place to get to know other students interested in careers in healthcare from all over the globe.

Programme Director Baptista Filipatali (pictured below) has worked with us since 2007. Always with a beaming smile, Baptista is hugely respected in the hospitals and has overseen more than 1,000 healthcare student placements. His dedicated team, led by Programme Managers Jerry Fernandez in Morogoro and Yoeni Modoe in Iringa (both pictured below), are there to ensure your stay with us is as safe, rewarding and fun as possible.