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CMF runs Elective Days in Leeds and London in March of each year. The speakers include doctors with a long experience of work in resource poor countries and students who have recently returned from an overseas elective. This really is a must, even if your timetable means you have to go a year before your elective starts.
See www.healthserve.org/electives/edays/default.asp

Make time to pray about your trip. Remember that you are an ambassador not only for your country and medical school, but for Jesus. Your attitudes and behaviour will influence your host's attitude towards receiving future elective students. Don't ruin it for those who will come after you. Be prepared to make compromises to keep the peace. Your behaviour must be exemplary, especially if you are going together with a student of the opposite sex. Go with a humble and teachable attitude, that way you will learn far more. You will learn a lot about yourself, your faith, what it means to be involved in mission and possibly even some medicine!