Elective Photo Competition 2024
The School of Medicine is thrilled to announce the launch of the Elective Photograph Competition 2024, inviting year-four students taking part in their upcoming elective placement to capture their unique experience.
The competition aims to celebrate the enriching experience an elective brings to student doctors and to highlight the invaluable exposure to new disciplines or different healthcare systems.
Document your experience
If you are taking part in an Elective this summer, why not document your experience and enter this year’s Elective Photograph Competition? Whether you spend time in a new cultural environment or are undertaking an original research project, we would love to see how you spend your placement.
Showcasing previous entrants
The winning entry for the Elective Photograph Competition 2023 was taken by Student Doctor Semay Baydar. Semay spent four weeks honing her skills in an Ophthalmology department in Vietnam. Here, staff celebrated a combined birthday lunch for Semay and three other colleagues – with local dishes and cakes galore! 
Take some inspiration from last years’ entrants, whose placements spanned the globe from Tobago to Everest:
(L) Anna Turnbull teaching a first-aid workshop in India. (R) Abiman Ravishanker, Alastair Patefield and Adi Chezhian on placement in India.
(L) Azed Lodi explores Jordan. (R) Ciara Blackhurst during her community medicine elective rotation in the Philippines.
(L) Ella Bleasdale pitchside at Leeds Rhinos Rugby League FC. (R) Ellie Marshall explored the 'Close the Gap' campaign in Australia.
(L) Ethan Thrower carries out health checks in Bali. (R) Fiona Bradley and Hayley Jones explore Everest Base Camp - here they are 5364m above sea level!
(L) Trying out bon bons tropical fruit in Vietnam (Photograph submitted as as group including: Hannah Anderson, Katie McKenzie, Matthew Heneghan, Miranda Upstone and Rebecca Burridge). (R) Hayley Jones at Everest Base Camp.
(L) Helen Nixon, Freya Hollowood Govind Dhillon and Katie Murray at Sarawak general hospital. (R) Isik Kaya explores the animals at Sydney Toronga Zoo.
(L) Jasmine Kaypee on her first day of arriving in Hanoi. (R) Stunning views of Ho Chi Minh City submitted by Katie McKenzie, Miranda Upstone, Matthew Heneghan, Rebecca Burridge, Hannah Anderson.
(L) Laura Vernon shows the entrance to Rampton Hospital. (R) Lucas Pidgen outside Mawenzi Regional Hospital in Tanzania. 
(L) Final day on oncology placement for Hannah Anderson, Matthew Heneghan, Miranda Upstone, Katie Mckenzie. (R) Matthew Pickering snaps a Proboscis Monkey in the Bornean Rainforest.
(L) Maya Nelson works with medics at the Trinbago Youth Commonwealth Games. (R) Celebrating end of placement in Vietnam (Katie McKenzie, Matthew Heneghan, Rebecca Burridge, Hannah Anderson)
(L) Nick McWhirter visits a small mountain village east of Kathmandu, about 1500m elevation. (R) Olivia Charlton in the heart of Jaipur for their independence day.
(L) Raveen Sagoo assists with a cleft palate procedure in Vietnam for a patient who had waited many years for the transformative surgery. (R) Rebecca Burridge learning how to cook some traditional Vietnamese dishes including spring rolls and banh xeo with a local couple in their home.
(L) Rhyanna Morris takes a food parcel delivery in rural Zambia, on the Copperbelt, by the Congo border. (R) Sabeeah Lasker, Hafeezah Lasker, Amandeep Sansi and Jyothirmayi Suri in Vietnam.
(L) Sammy Ali in Ngorongoro Crater National Park, Tanzania during on a three-day safari. (R) Sarah Gomm entering the neonatal intensive care unit in PPE.
Here’s how to enter:
- Your photograph submission should be a clinical type shot that captures the essence of your experience. Examples could include: your work in a hospital, a healthcare setting, with colleagues.
- The submission deadline is the end of September 2024.
- There is a fantastic prize given to the student with the winning photograph!
- Submissions should be sent to the Electives Team via email: elective.mbchb@liverpool.ac.uk.