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Provision of health advice for UK medical students planning to travel overseas for their elective study period: questionnaire survey

Editorial by Wilkinson and p 158

An external elective period is included in the curriculum of most medical schools in the United Kingdom. Of this year's applicants for elective grants at one school, 97% planned to go abroad; 69% of applicants chose developing countries, the most popular destination being southern Africa. Attention has been drawn to the potential health risks facing elective students (J H Cossar et al, fifth international conference on travel medicine, 1995 (abstract 201)) and also to the risk of HIV infection for health workers in developing countries.1 We conducted a survey to determine how health advice for elective students who plan to travel abroad is provided.

We sent a questionnaire to the 26 medical schools in the United Kingdom after making a telephone call to determine the most appropriate addressee. A telephone reminder was made to those who had not responded after four weeks. …