Overseas students
- As an overseas student you may experience different difficulties to home students. Here are some tips on how to cope with these:
“Planning and booking UK EMS in advance is important, as popular placements (and those with accommodation) get booked up early, particularly at the start and end of the holiday periods”
“Take a notebook to make a list of local terminology e.g. a chute in America is a cattle crush in the UK and a byre is a cowshed”
“Make sure your EMS coordinator is aware that you’re an overseas students – they might be able to offer you extra help”
“Regardless of your university fees, none of this goes to your EMS placements – you are no different from the local students!”
“Organise any UK EMS prior to booking flights”
All students
- Any overseas EMS should be discussed and agreed with your EMS coordinator before booking
- Remember outside the UK there are different diseases which are high risk e.g. rabies
- Make sure your vaccines are up to date and you are aware of relevant health and safety