How to organise a year abroad.

This article is intended to give advice for trainees in hospital specialties or subspecialties, and will be of very limited use to those wishing to do GP work or else work in the developing world. There is published advice available, but it tends to be country specific and has a tendency to get out of date very quickly. 1'2 Examples in this review are given for various countries and disciplines, but tend to be from my own experience of a paediatric subspecialist fellowship in Canada.