TeamMed: Nepal 2013 Information Night

Outline

• Overview of Nepal• What I gained out of going last year• 2012 Nepal trip experience (Will Cranwell)• 2013 trip plans• How to get involved

Nepal Overview

• Population• Capital• Life Expectancy• Language• Religion

Bigu Region

• Incredibly mountainous• Sparce• Limited facilities• Poor infrastructure

People

• Incredibly friendly

• Happy

• High expectations

• Generous and welcoming

Why go?

• First-hand experience in ongoing health promotion

• Immerse yourself in a 3rd world country• Meet fantastic medical students, volunteers and locals• Rewarding:

– you fund-raise, – you build connections, – you work together

• Motivating

Nepal 2012

Preparation

• Application process• Fundraising! (BBQs, trivia nights)• Vaccinations• Exercise training• Get to know your trip-members

Kathmandu

Dolongsa

Bigu

Hiking

Come on the Nepal trip if you…

• Have an interest in global health• Want to practise medicine in a rural, third

world setting• Love new experiences and like to meet new

people• Are interested in fundraising• Want to lose a little extra weight

Reconsider coming on the Nepal trip if you…

• Hate hiking/exercise• Are overwhelmed by new, very different

experiences• Don’t like lentil soup

2013 Plans

• 7th – depart for Kathmandu• 8-10th – pre-trip preparation• 11th – Jeep to Dolangsa • 12th – Hike to Bigu Monastery • 13-14th – Medical camp in Bigu• 15th – Hike to Loding• 16-17th – Medical camp at Loding• 18th – Hike to Kopachagu• 19th – 20th – Medical camp at Kopachagu• 21st – Hike to Singati • 22nd – Jeep to Kathmandu• 23rd – Depart home

What’s new?

• We’ll be working alongside Nursing station outposts

• We’re going to more sites

• We’re building towards providing self-sustaining support

What happens next?

• Meet the new group• Plan translators, porters and jeep logistics• Fundraise • Obtain hospital supplies• Review the 2012 trip, and • Use the 2012 patient data

to decide how to optimise the 2013 trip

How to get involved

• Applications open today• http://teammednepal.wufoo.com/forms/nepal-trip

-2013-application/• Overheads cost: ~$750• Flight cost: ~$1400• Interviews and selection

late July• Successful applicants

will be notified early in Semester 2

QUESTIONS?