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Experiences as a UK trainee in the developing world

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Michael's Hospital, Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EG, UK E-mail: alisonkirkpatric{at}hotmail.com

Indonesia is a developing country with high levels of poverty and deprivation. There is a shortage of skilled birth attendants and in spite of some progress in reproductive health programmes in the last decade maternal mortality rates remain high. After taking up an RCOG/VSO fellowship I went to practise as an obstetrician/gynaecologist and medical trainer on a small island in Indonesia for a year. This article is an account of the challenges and rewards of this experience.

Keywords developing world / Indonesia / maternal mortality / midwives