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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(Arnold) Univ. College, London, UK. Provides data on non-governmental organizations, embassies, and bursaries, as well as occupational health issues for work abroad. Gives addresses and detailed data on hundreds of hospitals and 'what' medicine is like in more than 100 countries around the world. Thumb-tabbed. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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