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For an experience you will never forget, get involved in ANZGITA's work

ANZGITA welcomes enquiries from doctors and nurses who wish to find out more about our work and the how they could contribute on a training program aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in a developing country. It is very common for trainers to comment on the professional and personal satisfaction they obtain from:
  • passing on their experience, skills and best practice to other clinicians keen to learn from them
  • discovering how to work creatively and effectively in different clinical and teaching environments
  • collaborating with like-minded professionals and building powerful personal networks
  • broadening social experience of working with clinicians from another culture as well as other Australian and New Zealand clinicians.
Here is a short newsletter article (page 3) by a New Zealand doctor on his involvement in the 2105 Fiji program. Also, nurse Allana Parkes' presentation of her experience of the 2017 Fiji program. Our in-country partners are always very hospitable and, as well as having fun, a strong feeling of esprit de corps builds amongst our teams as they handle issues and work with our local colleagues.
"The passion I have developed for this unique volunteer trainer experience, traveling with like-minded physicians and sharing my skills and friendship, has become part of me.  Not only have I been bitten by the bug, but I am completely infected by it!  

Often when I feel emotionally and physically exhausted within my Australian workplace, my thoughts take me to these far away countries, and to the people whom I have met, from doctors and nurses, to taxi drivers and nuns. To the children that face death from preventable disease, and to the young adults who die from them. I like to think that I make a small difference. When I distract myself from these thoughts, I feel alive again, reinvigorated and even more motivated than before, as if the mental and physical exhaustion has been blown away like soft sands in the warm pacific trade wind." 
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​Dr Chris Hair, ANZGITA member and trainer since 2010
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Clinicians attend for one or two weeks depending on the length of the training program.  Trainers for specific programs are supported through the logistics of preparation and given background information before departing. All trainers and volunteers associated with a program are required to adhere to our Code of Conduct. It and examples of printed material are below. 

Physicians are trained in endoscopy skills and organisation. Medical training is through lectures, tutorials and involvement in clinical practice such as ward rounds.  In Fiji, the program is run as part of a post-graduate study module offered by the School of Medicine at the Fiji National University.  Nurses’ training is through lectures and skills practise, predominantly in the safe delivery of endoscopy through the introduction of the standards and competency benchmarks, and in unit management. Feedback from trainers is collected after each program.

ANZGITA reimburses all trainers for their accommodation, registration and visa costs.  For nurses, we also cover travel costs.  Every participant is covered by our travel and other insurances. See the trainers' information page. 

Some 50 medical and nursing trainers have contributed to the ANZGITA program over the past 10 years – many on multiple occasions.  Almost universally they have found the experience extremely rewarding – if at times quite challenging.  We are always keen to include new trainers and ensure that trainers are from all regions of Australia and New Zealand, from both teaching and regional hospitals, from public and private sectors, of all ages and both genders.

If you would like to know more before registering, please email us and an experienced trainer will respond.

​In considering your desire to undertake voluntary work, please also consider Australian Doctors for Africa who work in gastroenterology in Madagascar and Doctors Assisting in Solomon Islands who work across the nation in many medical areas.

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