Abstract
Roanna is a fourth-year medical student spending a year in Lancaster, having completed her first three years in Liverpool. This audit was carried out as part of her elective visit to South Nepal in the summer of 2008 (at the hospital's request). This has stimulated her interest in tropical medicine and she hopes to intercalate in topical biology next year.
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