Practicing in a different country

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How feasible is it to practice medicine in a foreign country after graduating from a US medical school?

 

[LizzyM]

Permanently or as a short-term relief worker? One may be more difficult than the other. It will require licensure in the country where you'll practice. The hoops you'd need to jump through to be licensed may depend on the country's desire to protect it's job market for local physicians vs an unmet demand for clinical services.

Here's a link to Doctors Without Borders just to give you an idea about one route to practicing abroad short-term. Before you apply

 

[Prometheus123]

How feasible is it to practice medicine in a foreign country after graduating from a US medical school?

It depends on the country, but in some, very. There's significant variation though: some require you to take the local licensing exam, some don't. So this question is hard to answer without knowing which country you're talking about.

 

[deleted846074]

Permanently or as a short-term relief worker? One may be more difficult than the other. It will require licensure in the country where you'll practice. The hoops you'd need to jump through to be licensed may depend on the country's desire to protect it's job market for local physicians vs an unmet demand for clinical services.

Here's a link to Doctors Without Borders just to give you an idea about one route to practicing abroad short-term. Before you apply

I was mainly considering the permanent relocation to Canada or a European country.

 

[Prometheus123]

I was mainly considering the permanent relocation to Canada or a European country.

I don't know about any of those ones. However, I seem to remember that the UK and other Western European countries may tend to be more challenging to gain licensure in. I would search SDN and Google for the specific name of each country you're interested in and keywords like <US residency graduate practice licensure>. Let's see if anyone else who sees this thread knows any specifics about Canada.

 

[LizzyM]

I was mainly considering the permanent relocation to Canada or a European country.

Do you have standing as a citizen in Canada or the EU or a European country outside of the EU? If not, you have two hurdles, legal permission to work in the place and licensure to practice medicine in the place. Again, it may depend on the supply of physician in the place and the country's motivation to increase the supply of physicians or keep in tamped down to keep health care costs low. (The demand for services is elastic as counterintuitive as that may be.)

 

[LoveBeingHuman:)]

Do you have standing as a citizen in Canada or the EU or a European country outside of the EU? If not, you have two hurdles, legal permission to work in the place and licensure to practice medicine in the place. Again, it may depend on the supply of physician in the place and the country's motivation to increase the supply of physicians or keep in tamped down to keep health care costs low. (The demand for services is elastic as counterintuitive as that may be.)

I think in several countries, getting permission from the national medical board/medical council to practice makes it much easier to get through the process of getting permission to work.

 

[saffe94]

As a UK/US dual citizen with a US MD degree how feasible is it to practice in the UK? Anyone got any resources with information on this?