MedLink members in scrubs, caps, and masks stand with a surgeon in an operating room

Medical Exploration

About Medical Exploration

MedLink started with students who wanted to understand medicine before choosing it. Medical Exploration puts members inside hospitals and medical conferences, so they see the real work of doctors and healthcare teams.

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Hospital Shadowing Program

Members observe doctors and other healthcare professionals at work in hospitals in and around Bangkok. The program runs every year.

  • Banphaeo Hospital2024
  • Rajavithi Hospital2024, 2025
  • Phyathai Phaholyothin Hospital2024
  • Siriraj Hospital2026

Banphaeo, Phyathai Phaholyothin, Rajavithi, and Siriraj Hospitals, 2025 to 2026

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Spine Surgery Conferences

MedLink members help run two spine surgery meetings: the ASEAN MISST congress, which brings together spine surgeons from across Southeast Asia, and ThaiMISST, its Thai counterpart.

We guide delegates from the tour buses at the opening ceremony, handle registration and certificate printing, run camera and lighting, and help with logistics. Members have also performed music on stage to raise funds, and presented a paper at ThaiMISST.

  • ASEAN MISST 2025
  • ThaiMISST 2025 and 2026
  • Paper: The Novel Expandable Cannular for Uniportal Endo-LIF

10th ASEAN MISST · February 2025

10th ASEAN MISST, February 2025

ThaiMISST · 2025 and 2026

ThaiMISST in Ayutthaya, November 2025, and the 17th ThaiMISST, September 2026

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Skills Training with Doctors

Doctors also teach MedLink members hands-on skills. Before the February 2026 trip, doctors from Rajavithi Hospital taught members first aid and CPR, so members could pass the skills on to students in Mae Chaem.

On the trip, members practiced suturing with the volunteer doctors.

  • Since 2026
  • First aid, CPR, and suturing

Members train in first aid and suturing with doctors, February 2026