SCOPE Exchange in Switzerland

Text: Giuseppe Norcia | University of Sassari, Italy

It all began in December 2020 when I decided to select Switzerland as destination for my clerkship project. At the beginning I chose Switzerland because I was fascinated by the possibility to use my mother tongue, Italian, to communicate during my experience, This desire came from the fact that before Switzerland I have been to Turkey, and honestly, it has been very difficult to interact with the patients because of the language barrier.

In addition, I was so curious about Switzerland as a country, because even though it’s very near to Italy I had never been there. Since I come from an island, I was looking forward to seeing this new mountain environment.

Moreover, I chose Switzerland because in this context of pandemic I wanted to be sure that the epidemiologic conditions of the country allowed me to go, because in other countries the situation related to COVID-19 made clerkship impossible. Then I arrived in Switzerland in October 2021 and me and my Italian friend have been welcomed by the LEO and our contact person. They were all so kind with us and helped us with all our problems. First of all they provided us with a SIM card with internet, then they provided us with a transport card which was very useful for us and we used it a lot to travel all around Switzerland by train. After that we went out for a drink in the city centre and they gave us many advice about what to see, where to go and so on.

At the beginning I selected many departments such as cardiology and pneumology but none of them were available for me, so I was assigned to intensive care unit. That was a huge stroke of luck for me since in intensive care I had the possibility to deepen my knowledge about both cardiology and pneumology too.

The first day at the hospital was amazing, first I was introduced to the chief of my department, and with him we decided some objectives I had to reach before the end of my period there. Everything was well organized, and I had a tutor that followed me during the period and helped me out to reach my aim.

My objectives were to get to a basic level of knowledge about cardiorespiratory pathophysiology, understand how to communicate with the patient’s family, understand the essentials of ultrasound in intensive care. Then I took part in every activity of the department, the discussion of clinical case reports, I followed every lessons that twice a week were offered us about the main aspects of our specialty.

My tutor allowed me to follow one patient from the beginning to the end of the permanence in our department, this task included the first visit of the patient, the discussion with the entire team, the request for all exams and then the transfer to another department.

It helped me a lot and gave me the awareness that Switzerland could be a place where I can work or study in the future. Indeed, I am right now here in Switzerland for another two months period in the same department, that’s because I took very good contact with all the staff and they gave me the opportunity to return back for a new experience. That’s amazing for my curriculum and for my life in general since it’s not common to have the luck to get this experience twice. In addition, I must mention the fact that I had the luck to meet four amazing friends from Italy and that has made this trip outstanding. With them we visited Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Lauterbrunnen and I had the possibility to see many parts of Switzerland. One of the things I liked most was the ultrasound course organized by a student. She taught us how to use ultrasound, in an amazing building of USI, in the city centre.

Many activities were organized for us, and our contact people and LEO were extremely kind with all of us. Unfortunately for some reason related to the shifts we didn’t take part to all social programs but I am sure it would have been cool.

To sum up my clerkship in Switzerland has been one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done in my life, and an amazing experience I strongly recommend everybody. Do not let this opportunity pass if you have it , just grab it and travel since it’s a boost for your personal and professional growth.

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For a research exchange: from 1st year on For a professional exchange: from 3rd year on

You can find more infos here: www.swimsa.ch/exchanges https://ifmsa.org/exchange-the-world/

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