Internships in Rural Areas, Tanzania

Tanzania is an attractive East African country where you can spend some time on a volunteer project or international internship Projects Abroad offers a wide variety of projects in Tanzania, based in both the coastal city of Dar es Salaam and around the town of Arusha in the north of the country. Most Projects Abroad volunteers in Tanzania live with local host families. This allows you to experience Tanzania from a local’s perspective, a very different world from the often luxurious hotels of the safari industry. Projects Abroad offers a variety of volunteer programs in Tanzania including Teaching, Care, Sports, Building projects, as well as a Culture & Community program with the Maasai tribe. They also offer internships to help you gain experience in your career of choice, including, Microfinance, Law & Human Rights and Medical projects such as Nursing, Midwifery, General Medicine, and Dentistry.

Join this internship opportunity abroad and gain invaluable experience in your chosen discipline within the field of medicine. At the same time, find out what life is like for many people in Tanzania and Africa in general as you help and interact with some of the poorest residents in your host town. The program, which is organized by our professional staff, offers a guaranteed medical placement at one of our partner hospitals. We guarantee a customized internship by placing you in a hospital capable of giving the best work experience. Here, you can choose from a range of departments: general medicine, pediatrics, physiotherapy, obstetrics/gynecology, and others. We can also arrange a more specialized field upon request. As an intern, your main activities include assisting doctors with basic procedures, receiving patients and providing assistance after their treatment, and handling office tasks. Your specific day-to-day tasks are varied and spread across many areas, especially if you’re assigned to various departments.