Fifth-year students of Ternopil State Medical University Medical Faculty Olena Oliinyk, Tetiana Lazar, and Iryna Lehka recently returned home from Poland after completing an internship. For one month they worked at the hospital of town Kutno in Łódź Voivodeship improving their medical skills.

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“We liked the attitude of the staff and our work place equipement. We worked a lot and gained new skills. Each week of the internship was devoted to a particular clinical area– general practice, OB/GYN, surgery and paediatrics. After each thematic cycle we had exams and received grades. The month filed by so very we almost did not notice it. We most enjoyed the surgery part of the internship, since we had an opportunity to assist during surgeries, applied stitches after surgical procedures and performed electrocoagulation. Of course, the doctors supervised us and helped to perfect all these manipulations. Regarding gynecology, we participated in clinical examinations, so we well mastered carrying out ultrasound tests and bimanual examination. In Poland there is a different approach in organization of general practice unit. They do not have the ‘classic’ general practice unit we are used seeing in our hospitals. In the Polish clinics the general treatment unit houses mostly patients on almost terminal stage and there they mostly provide hospice care. Instead they have, for instance, a separate endocrinology and other specialized units. The internship in pediatrics gave us an opportunity to examine children, in particular perform palpation, percussion, auscultation, and differential diagnosis “- said Olena Oliinyk.