Romania joins EU

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Now that Romania is a part of EU. I guess students who were in romania must be happy. Now they can travel all over europe and practice medicine.

 

[ManuNastai]

Well... dunno about that!

It's for sure that one of them is indifferent and is tryin' to go to the US. 😀
I'm sure that the foreign residency programs won't accept with a big smile on their faces the romanians just because we're members of the EU. I think it's gonna be just the opposite. Untill now there were exams you had to take (like the Steps in the US) and the people in charge could quantify how good you are, at least how much medical literature you know (not skill). Now they can't, so I guess they'll think they're better off without romanians!!

It's just my thought. I hope it won't be like this and romanians will be highly apreciated in europe!

 

[f_w]

For the first 5 years or so, citizens of new accession countries do not have the 'right of free movement' within the EU. Some countries with workforce needs such as Ireland and the UK allow the 'new EU citizens' to get work permits, but for most other countries they are still treated like non-EU foreigners.

 

[huskyeyes29]

well...it's a "well put" question...wether roumanians can go freely in the EU states...for example: if i wanna aply to ERASMUS scholarship (wich is supposed to privide everything that is needed for a foreign student to study in a country for a 3-6-9-12 month-program) will it be easier for me?

 

[avenirv]

For the first 5 years or so, citizens of new accession countries do not have the 'right of free movement' within the EU. Some countries with workforce needs such as Ireland and the UK allow the 'new EU citizens' to get work permits, but for most other countries they are still treated like non-EU foreigners.

just read it again.
"free movement" is different of "free employment". romanians do not need visa to move in UE for 5 years.
GB has issued the toughest regulations that in theory prevent romanians and bulgarians to work there for a couple of years but the last article of the regulation says that selfemployeds are free to work.
the MD issue is solved because they can be selfemployed.
the MD issues is the medical regulations not the work visa.
but the romanian MDs have the right to practice in UE. just as canadian can do in USA and viceversa.
dot.

 

[f_w]

"free movement" is different of "free employment". romanians do not need visa to move in UE for 5 years.

But they do need employment authorization in order to work. Now, the UK and Ireland still have unmet workforce needs and opened their doors generously to polish migrants in the last couple of years, but the general principle remains that individual member countries are still free to restrict the right of new accession country citizens to take up employment.

the MD issue is solved because they can be selfemployed.

If they come with a couple of 100k to open up their own office yes. If they (like most do) come to work as employed physicians for a hospital, NHS trust, goverment clinic, they have to get a work permit like anyone else.

the MD issues is the medical regulations not the work visa.

Automatic recognition is only worth so much if you can't get a work permit.

just as canadian can do in USA and viceversa.
dot.

There must be something I missed here. Canadian MDs have to get a work visa/employment authorization or green-card in order to work in the US. Also, they need to apply for a medical license in every state they want to work in. Many states will recognize the canadian exams, but it is certainly not the case that canadian docs can come to the US and just practice (in the other direction, US docs have to get provincial registration and obtain a work visa/work permit if they plan to go north).