Medicine,
learned in exchange.
A supervised clinical exchange in Cape Coast, Ghana — where health-science students work alongside local clinicians, contribute to real care, and discover a country that teaches as much as any ward round.
Not voluntourism. A supervised exchange where Ghanaian clinicians are the experts — and you are here to learn.
MedXchange Africa is a non-profit that places health-science students into supervised clinical rotations, public-health projects and inclusive-education work on Ghana's central coast. Local clinicians lead; students learn alongside them, within their scope and always supervised.
One program, built around real clinical exchange.
MedXchange Africa pairs students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, physiotherapy and allied health with partner hospitals and projects in coastal Ghana. Everything is arranged — supervision, placement, secure housing, airport transfer — so you can focus on the work and the experience. Completed as a Famulatur, PJ tertial or elective, over a period that suits you.
Supervised rotations at hospitals that teach.
Rotate through the wards at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital as part of a professional team led by Dr Ernest Ainooson, with hands-on exposure to tropical medicine and public-health realities you'll rarely meet at home. You observe, you assist, you grow — always within your scope and always supervised.
Inclusion is at the heart of what we do.
Alongside your clinical work, you can teach and learn at the Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Blind — sharing skills, building real relationships, and seeing how thoughtful care reaches every patient. On scheduled days, the team runs free medical outreach, bringing health screening to rural communities. This is partnership and mutual learning, not charity.
Ghana is part of the curriculum.
Off the ward, the coast opens up. We visit the historic forts and dungeons with the gravity they deserve — as places of memory, not photo stops.
Rainforest at treetop height, a short drive from the coast.
A site of the transatlantic slave trade, visited with the gravity it demands.
Among the oldest European structures in sub-Saharan Africa, and a place of conscience.
Markets, music and shoreline — the rhythm of life around Cape Coast and Elmina.
Led on the ground by people who live here.
The program is led by Dr Ernest Ainooson at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and coordinated with medical students Antonia Löwe and Serafina Wegner of Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Together with the resident team, they welcome you, place you and look out for you throughout your stay.
Meet the full team →
Your place in
Cape Coast
is waiting.
Tell us who you are and what you study — we'll walk you through placements, dates and everything you need to arrive ready. Spots are limited each term, so early applications go furthest.