Foreign travel
Travel advice and immunisations
The University Occupational Health Service can provide travel advice and immunisations for medical students doing electives abroad. It can also offer advice to leaders of official University expeditions. Travel services may also be available from their college doctor or general practitioner, from whom advice should be sought about other travel abroad for study purposes and holiday trips.
The Occupational Health Service is located on the ground floor of 10 Parks Road. A consultant-led travel clinic is held on Monday afternoons and an appointment system operates (telephone (2)82676). Please contact the service at least two months before your intended date of travel and preferably longer.
The attention of members of the University travelling abroad to EEC countries is drawn to certain special arrangements which have been made for the medical treatment of United Kingdom citizens should this prove necessary. Bilateral agreements have also been negotiated with other countries. Students who have at any time been employed (or have a parent who is employed as opposed to self-employed or non-employed) are eligible to take advantage of these arrangements, details of which are available from offices of the Department of Health. If no such cover is available under these arrangements, adequate private medical insurance is imperative.
If you are concerned about the conditions in a country you are planning to visit please check the advice provided to travellers by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. You may also wish to consult the guidance on fieldwork issued by the University's Safety Office.
Insurance
Students in receipt of LEA or other awards should consult their grant-giving authorities to ascertain what assistance is obtainable for medical insurance cover. Whatever help is available, students should ensure that their level of insurance cover is adequate for the countries to be visited. It is recommended that cover should be obtained for a minimum of £500,000 and, in the case of the USA, for a minimum of £1 million, and that it should cover the cost of prompt repatriation which may well be preferable if you have an accident or fall ill.
The University has a block travel insurance arrangement that can be used by those travelling abroad for a university purpose, including students undertaking research.