med student dive elective?

[rudcpr]

Hello,
I am a 3rd year medical student (and avid diver) at The Ohio State University and a fellow student and I would love to do a 4-week elective in dive medicine in another country during my 4th year. At this point, I'm not sure how to arrange such an elective. Can you please give me some suggestions if you have any?
Thanks so much!
Craig Rudnick
rudnick-1@medctr.osu.edu


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[Nessie]

one option is that you apply at foreign clinics with a decompression chamber. I had an offer to work for a month at a decompression chamber of a hospital in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt. In the end I did not went there, but in case you are interested I could look up the adress etc.

[SubMariner]

I think that Dr. Ernest Campbell (Scubadoc) or Divers Alert Network (DAN) may be of some help in this area. Here are links to their websites:

Scubadoc: http://scuba-doc.com/

DAN: http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/

Other hyperbaric medicine links:

Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Assn: http://www.uhms.org/

American College of Hypberbaric Medicine:
http://www.hyperbaricmedicine.org/

Bon chance!

~SubMariner~

[SARmedic]

If Las Vegas counts as a foreign country for you, we have a recompression chanber at UMC, and it is a teaching hospital.

They do many treatments there, not too many dive related, but lots of chamber rides for patients at the hospital.

University Medical Center
http://www.umc-cares.org/