Acquire your career in Pharmacy off to an eye-opening start by completing your elective in Ghana with OGVO. On the project you will gain valuable practical experience by working with a professional pharmacy manager at a hospital, as you share your skills and knowledge in communities that are largely underdeveloped and low on resources.

In Ghana, health care is often limited by lack of funding, outdated facilities, and shortage of staff. On your elective, you will contribute directly to improving health care in the community where you are placed, and to a healthier life for those you visit and treat on outreaches.

In order to take part in this project you have to be a Pharmacy School student. 

Your role on the Pharmacy School Elective in Ghana

During your placement, you will work alongside a qualified supervisor who will help you become accustomed to your specific pharmaceutical practice. You will observe the daily pharmaceutical care services provided by local medical staff, and assist where required. You will also go on outreach projects into outlying communities to provide basic medical services to small villages often without health care. Some of the tasks you will do include:

• Completing ward rounds with the pharmacy and medical teams
• Supervising the outpatient dispensing of medication
• Providing drug information to patients at a hospital
• Assisting pharmacists with clinical pharmacy practices
• Taking part in medical outreach projects, where you will provide local people with medical advice, prescribed medicine, and basic medical services

Your experience in Ghana as a Pharmacy School student will be eye opening, as you will be exposed to the health care practices of a developing country. You will be required to test your knowledge and skills in a space unfamiliar to you, and to think on your feet as apply yourself in your work.

The pharmaceutical knowledge you bring to the work-space will benefit staff and patients, and will directly contribute to improving the health care services provided in the communities you interact with. Your influence will therefore leave a lasting impact and will contributing to the sustainability of the Pharmacy Project in Ghana.

Most colleges have deadlines for your Elective application paperwork. If your college needs information on the hospital where you will be placed, or requires forms to be signed by your project supervisor, we strongly advise completing our application form at least one month before this deadline. We can only provide this detailed information once you have applied and been accepted onto an Elective placement with us. If your college has no set requirements, we still advise that you apply as early as possible.

Can I use this program as part of a college or university placement? 

It is certainly possible to use one of OGVO’s programs as part of your university or college placement. Project staff can sign off any paperwork required by your course tutors. OGVO regularly receives medical, childcare, psychology and nursing placement students at our projects across Ghana and we have ties with some of the leading universities.

If you’re a course tutor and would like further information about how one of OGVO’s programs could meet the placement requirements for your degree course then please contact us directly.