medics paid work abroad??

[elz]

hey there, a doctor i spoke to said to me that she knew of medical students who had worked as first aiders abroad and were paid for it. has anyone heard of anything like this?

[Hughman]

hey there, a doctor i spoke to said to me that she knew of medical students who had worked as first aiders abroad and were paid for it. has anyone heard of anything like this?

The doctor I worked with in Greece has for all intents and purposes said I can do my elective with him and earn a salary for my efforts (though Greece has a decent NHS-system, cash is exchanged frequently to speed up referrals, acquire time of doctors that may not do that much public work, and for free-prescriptions from doctors.

As well as treating people in his clinic (he's a respiratory physician, and 50% of Greek physicians are in the community), he also does one half-shift a week for the army/air force, and one half-shift for a local consortium of hotels and diving schools - he checks over tourists before and after SCUBA dives.

I've also heard large hotels will pay a small fortune for multi-lingual doctors to work for them. It's not a big leap of faith to see that they will employ medical students for assistance.

[markyc]

Here's a brief bit of info i found might be useful

Medics Travel: Electives / Work in hospitals, medical schools, recruitment agencies, NGOs and charity work for doctors and nurses. in hospitals / medical schools and with NGOs overseas

[wilkevo]

i am a Kenyan medical student in China and I would wish to do my internship in the states or Europe.I speak fluent English and Chinese,anyone with ideas on how to to that?

[ryxin]

That's sounds great working abroad with the use of your field like medics..I've heard a lot people here were working abroad and luckily they have their stable job and they really got high salary..So it was really sound cool..