Join Us: Become a Medical Volunteer
Share your paediatric expertise
We welcome paediatric sub-specialist volunteers in any clinical area who can contribute knowledge, expertise, education and support to colleagues around the world via scheduled Zoom sessions.
Medical Volunteer Opportunities:
- Telemedicine consultations for children in remote locations in NSW.
- Telehealth sessions connecting health professionals in developing countries to Australian experts.
- Face-to-face overseas volunteering – Currently on hold due to COVID-19
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Benefits For Australian Clinicians
There are many benefits for Australian clinicians and systems:
- Soft diplomacy: positioning Australians as responsible and contributing global citizens
- Australian health systems benefit from new ideas. Data shows that international experience enriches local practice.
- It can bring about increased resourcefulness and efficiencies
- Help build stronger leadership capabilities
- Better team work
- Enhanced problem solving capabilities, and,
- Opens more opportunities for innovation
- Contributing clinicians develop their knowledge of emerging tropical diseases
- Experience as volunteers better equips Australian professionals to help at-risk Australian children
- Opportunities to develop research collaborations
- Renewed sense of purpose and perspective
For Australian trainees who are welcome to join sessions from their affiliated Australian experts, there are opportunities engage and learn: Similarly trainees in international locations are welcome to attend and contribute to discussions. Both may gain:
- Broadening of clinical cases exposure
- Enhanced understanding of different cultures
- Experiencing paediatric care in resource limited settings and the enormous challenges encountered
- An appreciation of what can be achieved.
Benefits For Local Clinicians
The benefits to receiving support from Taking Paediatrics Abroad are multiple:
- Collaboration builds local health workforce capacity
- Empowerment means together we can do more
- Colleagues in developing countries gain new knowledge:
- They are better able to save lives with the latest knowledge and treatments
- They have access to prevention strategies to improve children’s health and wellbeing
- Education is shared to individual families and within communities
- Formal and informal teaching opportunities for colleagues
- Consultation is available on complex cases
- Guidance in resource utilisation and planning
- Opportunities for ongoing consultation and mentoring with experts dedicated to their country
- Follow-up visits consolidate learning and contribute to building relationships
- There is potential for funded ‘observerships’ for focused clinical skills training once travel can be resumed
Other Ways To Support Our Cause
Help Taking Paediatrics Abroad
Aside from donating directly through GiveNow.org.au you can also support our cause by:
- Becoming a Non-medical volunteer. Do you have a talent for writing grant applications, managing PR or enjoy admin?
- Registering as a Corporate Partner and enhancing your social impact.
- Starting a fundraising event or representing our cause at your next charity run, swim or sports game.
- Supporting our essential work by leaving a gift in your Will.
Testimonials
“Thank you so much for the teaching and diagnostic support, your time and sharing your expertise, reassuring and supporting/directing us in the management of our patients. Our sincere appreciation on behalf of the paediatric department, it has been extremely helpful.”
“Thank you so much; we are now empowered to manage this patient.”
"Thank you Dr Kathryn, Dr Caleb, Eve and Jane, for another wonderful session… Really looking forward to the next session, hopefully soon.”
“Many thanks for the telehealth sessions that we've had with Dr Amit and Dr Shuba. It has been a blessing to the continuity of patient care for us here with such a wonderful support.”
“Thank you so much for supporting us; to know that there are wonderful people out there who are happy to help and give advice to us.
The advice that you have given us is of great value as we rely on our reading sources to try and manage specialist cases.
Hearing from experts gives us more confidence and prepares us to confidently manage future cases.”
“Thank you so much for conceiving and coordinating this meeting. Thank you to Dr Steve for a detailed history and excellent management plans for two very complex children. Dr Hicks’ interpretation of CXRs was perfect.
I loved the meeting! It was an honour to discuss these very sick children with such an outstanding and committed group of paediatricians. I learnt a great deal.”
“This is an excellent project, which I have been advocating for… I believe it is the way forward. If the networks and mentoring transfer of knowledge and skills is harnessed, the post graduate training will be well supported.”
“No words can amount to how grateful I am.”
"Big thanks to Dr Kathryn Currow and Australian doctors and leaders of national paediatric hospital for case discussion through Taking Paediatrics Abroad program for hospitalised case of EGID which may relate to food allergy in children."
"Taking Pediatric Abroad teaching sessions have improved the knowledge of Cambodian pediatricians at National Pediatric Hospital, Angkor Hospital for Children and three main provincial hospitals of Cambodia. After acquiring up to date knowledge from specialists in Australia through online training, our pediatricians have organized CME for physicians in provinces."
“Words cannot express how thankful I am for all the presentations
I am blessed to be in pediatric and your assistance is deeply appreciated.
We are refining our guidelines with the support from you - through those teaching sessions,
Tank yu bigwan.”
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