1. TeamMed:
Nepal 2013 Information Night

2. 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

3. Nepal Overview
• Population
• Capital
• Life Expectancy
• Language
• Religion

4. Bigu Region
• Incredibly mountainous
• Sparce
• Limited facilities
• Poor infrastructure

5. People
• Incredibly friendly
• Happy
• High expectations
• Generous and welcoming

6. 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

7. Nepal 2012

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

9. Kathmandu

10. Dolongsa

11. Bigu

12. Hiking

13. 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

14. Reconsider coming on the Nepal trip if
you…
• Hate hiking/exercise
• Are overwhelmed by new, very different
experiences
• Don’t like lentil soup

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. QUESTIONS?