SGL exchange

It’s been a day of emotional goodbyes today, with Fatoumatta leaving this afternoon and our goodbye potluck lunch for everyone!  These last two weeks have gone so fast; thank you so much to our colleagues for the beautiful painting!

Very sadly its coming to the end of our exchange student’s visit for this year, so we thought we would take the opportunity to look back over the past couple of weeks. We’ve had some great food (thanks to the second years, Arian and Henry’s BBQ!), sightseeing in Cardiff, and some great football and volleyball

  As of October 2016, there has been a new committee taking over the reins of the running of The Swansea Gambia Link. We have been settling into each of our roles over the last couple of months and have been getting stuck in with fundraising to allow us to bring over 4 medical students

We’re having a great time getting to know and hosting our Gambian students. Having already introduced them to beach volleyball (and the joys of the ever-changing Welsh weather!), last night our wonderful SGL committee chair Marianne so kindly cooked for us all. With Ramadan ending this weekend, we wanted to celebrate with Muhammed, Yusupha, Amie

We had a wonderful afternoon introducing our Gambian Medical students to a traditional afternoon tea, with students from all years from the College of Medicine attending to welcome the students as well as get a chance to ask them about their experiences of medicine both at home in The Gambia and here in Wales. Bella,

The Swansea Gambia Link Committee warmly invites you to celebrate our Gambian colleagues’ visit to Swansea, and wish them a fond farewell before they leave next weekend. Where: Room West, Fulton House (Singleton campus) When: 3:30 pm on  Wednesday 5th November. After tea, we plan to take our Gambian friends to St Helen’s road to

The Swansea Gambia Link society is pleased to welcome four Gambian elective students to the UK. After months of arduous planning and the dedicated work of our local committee, we successfully secured four visas and flights for Bella, Kitabu, Saikou and Yafatou – four final year medical students from The Royal Teaching Hospital of Banjul.

In December 2013, 10 medical students, 2 midwifery students and two paediatric nursing students – accompanied by the Consultant ENT surgeon Mr Simon Browning – visited The Gambia as part of their respective courses. With 2012 being the first year a midwifery student had been part of the group, it was with great pleasure that

During the month of May, Swansea Medical School was host to three students; Pa Amadou Sohna, Fatoumatta Jaiteh and Ismaila Manneh from the Gambia. The students came for two weeks and during that time took part in a wide range of activities. Among the highlights were attending surgical and medical placements in a number of