Please read the Terms and Conditions of Practical Electives Abroad. By submitting your application and paying your deposit, you confirm your acceptance of, and agree to be bound by the following Practical Electives Abroad Terms and Conditions:
Travel
The student is solely responsible for arranging and paying for their own travel, specifically including all airfares. It is the responsibility of the student to carry all necessary documents when travelling abroad. Practical Electives Abroad is not responsible for any supporting documents necessary for the student’s travel needs or other purposes. Students are responsible for ensuring their travel documents are up to date and valid for travel.
Insurance
Practical Electives Abroad does not provide the student with insurance of any kind. Travel insurance is mandatory for each student, and the student must purchase this prior to departing on the trip. The student is solely responsible for evaluating and determining the type, extent and levels of any insurance coverage they need or desire for their planned student travel period. This must cover their entire travel period.
Deposit Fees
Payment of a deposit confirms the request of a student on to an elective program. Confirmation of acceptance onto elective program takes 48hours once all requested information is submitted. The deposit/fees are fully refundable if the student cannot be accepted onto the elective programme.
Program Fees
Details of the Program Fees are set out on the Practical Electives Abroad website and any fee revisions will be made public via that platform. Program fee revisions are not applicable to students who have already paid their deposit. Program fees are due no later than thirty days prior to the beginning of the student’s program placement. Failure to make this payment can result in a loss of
Personal Risks
The student acknowledges and accepts the responsibilities and risks associated with their choice to travel to, temporarily reside in, and provide student healthcare services in a foreign country. Such travel and student healthcare work can be hazardous and involves a certain degree of risk, inherently dangerous activities and personal perils to the student, both foreseen and unforeseen, all of which are fully accepted by and solely assumed by the student. Therefore, Practical Electives Abroad, including any and all of its employees, managers, directors, shareholders, and independent local teams (together, the “Practical Electives Abroad Related Parties”), is not liable and disclaims all liability, to the maximum extent permitted by law, for any loss or harm the student or associates may suffer, including but not limited to loss caused directly or indirectly by:
- Personal injury;
- Emotional injury;
- Damage to or loss of property;
- Natural disasters;
- Death;
- Illness or disease;
- Hostage situations; or
- War or terrorism
Events outside of our control
We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of Our obligations under these Terms that is caused by an Event Outside Our Control. An Event Outside Our Control means any act or event beyond Our reasonable control, including without limitation: –
- epidemic or pandemic;
- terrorist attack, civil war, civil commotion or riots, war, threat of or preparation for war, armed conflict, imposition of sanctions, embargo, or breaking off of diplomatic relations
- nuclear, chemical or biological contamination or sonic boom;
- any law or any action taken by a government or public authority, including without limitation imposing an export or import restriction, quota or prohibition, or failing to grant a necessary licence or consent;
- collapse of buildings, fire, explosion or accident;
- any labour or trade dispute, strikes, industrial action or lockouts;
- non-performance by suppliers or subcontractors (other than by companies in the same group as the party seeking to rely on this clause); and
- interruption or failure of utility service.
In such circumstances: –
- the time for the performance of our obligations under these terms shall be extended by a period equivalent to the period during which performance of such obligations has been delayed or failed to be performed; and
- if We reasonably consider that the period of such delay shall exceed one calendar month (or such period does exceed one calendar month) we may terminate this contract on 21 days’ notice.
We will not accept responsibility for any costs you may incur as a result of Our failure to perform, or delay in Our performance of, any of Our obligations under these Terms including but not limited to the costs of flight tickets, vaccinations, insurance and visas.
If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of Our obligations under these Terms We will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you.
Indemnity
The student agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Practical Electives Abroad and all Practical Electives Abroad Related Parties from any and all losses or liability they may suffer arising directly or indirectly out of, or in connection with, the student’s participation in the program, including but not limited to the student’s travel, temporary residence in their chosen destination, and the undertaking of student elective healthcare placements or tourism activities.
Drug and Alcohol Use
The student must abide by the rules put in place by the independent local team and student placement institution in regards to alcohol consumption. Drug use (unless prescribed by a doctor) is strictly prohibited and will result in instant dismissal from the program with no refund.
Privacy Policy
Practical Electives Abroad and the student agree to the conditions laid out in the Privacy Policy
Miscellaneous
The student agrees to comply with the independent local team’s code of conduct and waiver. Practical Electives Abroad and the independent local team reserves the right to dismiss a student from the program at any time without refund, in the event that these Terms and Conditions, or the local team’s code of conduct are breached.
Practical Electives Abroad reserves the right to notify the emergency contact appointed by the student in the event that the student is dismissed from the program and in other circumstances deemed appropriate by Practical Electives Abroad. Practical Electives Abroad reserves the right to use feedback and images provided or shared by students for marketing and promotion purposes.
Practical Electives Abroad provides a service connecting students to the independent local team. You agree that Practical Electives Abroad is not liable for any actions or omissions of the independent local team.
To the full extent permissible at law, all representations, terms, warranties, guarantees, or conditions whether implied by statute, common law or custom of the trade or otherwise, including, but not limited to, implied warranties and guarantees, are excluded.
Notwithstanding anything else contained in any agreement, the liability of Practical Electives Abroad to the student shall not in aggregate exceed the amount of the deposit fee paid by the student.
This website is presented solely for the purpose of promoting Practical Electives Abroad services and those of the independent local teams. This site is controlled and operated by Practical Electives Abroad from its offices in United Kingdom. Practical Electives Abroad makes no representation that materials in the site are appropriate or available for use in other locations.
Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible to the extent local law is applicable.
Practical Electives Abroad does not warrant or make any representations regarding the correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise of the materials in this site or the result of their use.
Practical Electives Abroad reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions or the services it offers from time to time.
Practical Electives Abroad reserves the right to refuse acceptance to any application.
The student certifies that all information provided to Practical Electives Abroad relating to their personal background, qualifications, experience, medical history, and current state of health is accurate and truthful, and that no information relating to the aforementioned areas is withheld. Practical Electives Abroad and the independent local team reserve the right to remove a student from their program, without refund or compensation, if it becomes apparent that untruthful or inaccurate information is submitted in their application form or provided through communications with Practical Electives Abroad staff, or if relevant information is withheld, or for any other reason by giving notice to the student.
Complaints procedure
Our staff in the UK head office and overseas will do their very best to provide the highest level of service. However, a formal procedure for complaints is set out below.
We are providing you with an opportunity to gain real life work experience in a working hospital or other placement, and as such you will need to show a high level of independence and initiative, especially in dealing with problems as they arise. If you have any problem that you find difficult to deal with, or which you feel should be Our responsibility to resolve, you should follow this procedure: –
- Talk to the Practical Electives Abroad in-country Programme Manager responsible for your placement. This is the person with the greatest understanding of your local situation, and he or she will do their best to help you;
- If you are unhappy with the immediate response, or you feel the time taken to resolve the problem is too great, you should present your complaint to the in-country Programme Manager in writing;
- If you are still unhappy with the response to your complaint, you should put it in writing to Our UK head office either by email or post as soon as possible;
In the event of a claim for compensation, you must promptly inform us verbally or by email of your intention to claim for compensation and then full details of the claim must be received by us in writing no more than 90 days after the end date of your Placement.
The above procedure exists to enable us to identify and deal with problems and complaints as quickly and efficiently as possible. Failure to follow this procedure may compromise Our ability to help you. We will not be responsible for problems or complaints not brought to Our attention as above.
Your responsibility as a healthcare student
You agree to keep confidential all sensitive information and patient records disclosed to you during your Placement.
Whilst at the hospitals and/or other institutions hosting your Placement you agree to be bound by their rules, regulations and policies and any other reasonable directions provided by the hospitals and/or other institutions hosting your Placement.
We reserve the right to take appropriate action in the event that during your Placement:
- Your actions or omissions would reasonably be expected to give offence to hosts, programme managers, work colleagues, patients or others (for example by reason of serious rowdiness, disregard of cultural differences at the location of your Placement or drunkenness);
- Your actions or omissions would reasonably be expected to breach the rules, regulations, policies or other reasonable and lawful directions of the hospitals and/or other institutions;
- Your actions or omissions would reasonably be expected to endanger the welfare and/or safety of other persons or risk damage to property;
- You are guilty of a criminal offence or any fraud or dishonesty or act in any manner which in
- Our reasonable opinion brings or is likely to bring you or Us into disrepute;
- You are, in Our reasonable opinion, negligent and incompetent in the performance of your duties, you fail to turn up to your Placement or leave your Placement without an adequate reason.
We shall take appropriate action depending on the seriousness of your actions or omissions which may include:
- Suspending you from your work at your Placement either temporarily whilst we investigate further or permanently; or
- Notifying you by letter that, unless the matter is resolved in accordance with Our reasonable and lawful instructions, within five working days (or such shorter period as we in Our reasonable opinion deem appropriate), we will suspend you from your work at your Placement either temporarily whilst we investigate further or permanently.
In the event that your Placement is suspended permanently, should you wish to stay in your destination country beyond that date, We would have no further responsibility for your food, accommodation, insurance or travel arrangements and you would have to find and pay for your own accommodation, insurance and travel. If you choose to travel home if your Placement is suspended and this means you require a different flight home to the one you have already booked, you are responsible for the cost of any changes made to that flight or the cost of a new flight should you not be able to change your original flight.
Please note that we reserve the right to decline to accept any person onto a Placement, or to require any participant to withdraw at any time, when such action is determined by the appropriate Practical Electives Abroad staff representative to be in the best interests of the health, safety, and general welfare of the programme or of the individual participant. In such a case, we accept no responsibility for any airline cancellation penalty incurred by the purchase of a non-refundable ticket or any other cost that you may incur.
These Terms are governed by English law. You and We both agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.