The Medic's Guide to Work and Electives around the World [Paperback]

Mark Wilson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0340810513 | ISBN-13: 978-0340810514 | Publication Date: July 1, 2004 | Edition: 2

This up-to-date book is the definitive guide for the doctor, nurse, student or other health professional planning work or an elective overseas. It gives information on what it is like to work in thousands of hospitals in over 100 countries. It provides information from what they are best known for to what the social life is like. There's information on how to go about planning your trip, advice on occupational health requirements and details on over a hundred non-governmental organizations and missionary charities. There are also lists of bursaries and grants available and addresses of embassies in the UK, US and Australia. This new edition also has much more information for nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Details of specialist organizations are included where possible and a few new countries have been added. Section 3 contains a new Adventure Medicine chapter providing information on expedition, mountain, aviation, space and diving medicine.

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It really does make you want to start planning your elective. It gives you ideas you never thought about and makes any ideas you have more realistic. I really would recommend you find a copy of this book if you've got an elective to plan. -- GKT Gazette The Medic's Guide is refreshingly unbiased, the blurbs give information which is useful and interesting, not just repititions of hospital advertising and recruitment slogans. This book makes organizing your elusive dream elective a little easier by providing ideas, contacts and realistic, anecdotal information. A copy on your desk might also be a pleasant reminder of the possibilties that come with these funny old degrees -- The New Zealand Medical Students Journal, Number 2 20050301

About the Author

Mark Wilson trained at St Bartholomew's, University College London and Cambridge before working at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, UCH/Middlesex and the Royal London Hospitals. He has also worked in India, Nepal and South Africa, as a researcher for NASA in California, as a GP in South Australia and as an expedition doctor in the Arctic.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Hodder Arnold Publishers; 2 edition (July 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340810513
• ISBN-13: 978-0340810514
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,276,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource!, July 8, 2007

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This review is from: The Medic's Guide to Work and Electives around the World (Paperback)

This book, although a few years old, still contains a great deal of current information. Organized by country, it gives great little overviews of each country's social and medical situation and lists numerous hospitals, clinics, and organizations with available electives for medical students. These descriptions are generally succinct, and include information about available specialties, strengths/weaknesses, accomodations, etc. The range of electives is great - everything from large urban hospitals to rural clinics and traveling docs' services. Additionally, the book lists contact information for other hospitals, even if there's no specifically described elective. It also has specialty sections, covering such things as expedition and wilderness medicine. The book is also useful to just get those wheels churning - you might come up with ideas for projects and electives just because you came across a particular country or practice setting that you hadn't though of before. The only negative is that the funding sources listed, while numerous, are mainly only relevant for EU residents. I highly recommend this book as a resource for medical students (primarily in the clinical years of training) looking to do a clinical elective abroad.