Are there any countries were a US trained doc can work?

[Yankeedanielo]

About me: US Citizen, US medschool, US residency, US fellowship, US board Certified, 4 years of experience as an attending in a US academic medical center in a surgical subspecialty. US board Certified.

I'm just sick of living in the US. No reason, just would like some more interesting life experience.

Does anyone know of any countries where someone with my credentials could work. I'm fine studying for exams, but I don't want to do any more residency.

I know working in other countries as a doc is highly restricted. Just figured I'd ask.

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[Winged Scapula]

There are a couple of US based physicians on this forum working in Australia; check out the Australia subforum for their posts on how to do it.

 

[Medstart108]

If you speak only English? Canada is definitely one of them, but since you posted here i'm guessing you are thinking of Asia. If that is the case you could probably consider Singapore.

 

[Yankeedanielo]

If you speak only English? Canada is definitely one of them, but since you posted here i'm guessing you are thinking of Asia. If that is the case you could probably consider Singapore.

Thanks. How open to foreigners is Singapore? Also, how competitive is Singapore?

 

[Medstart108]

Thanks. How open to foreigners is Singapore? Also, how competitive is Singapore?

I honestly don't know sorry. Although I do know Singapore is not completely closed to foreigners.

 

[Yankeedanielo]

I honestly don't know sorry. Although I do know Singapore is not completely closed to foreigners.

Thanks.

 

[Yankeedanielo]

I've heard from Singaporeans at my hospital in Australia that Singapore has built a new hospital (or maybe more than one new hospital) and that they're recruiting a lot of recent med student graduates to be interns as well as other doctors from Australia. This is just what I've heard, but I've never personally verified it.

Also, there are Singaporeans in Australia who train in Australia and later return to practise in Singapore. They don't seem to face much if any difficulty.

Or just come to Australia, then travel and practise in Asia since Asia is so close by! Just a flight away.

Thanks. I like the idea of Singapore. I speak ok Mandarin but not nearly well enough for practice. It would be fun to improve my Chinese while being able to work in English.
I'm fascinated by Asia. I'm also interested in Australia and NZ. Proximity to Asia is a big plus, but they also seem like cool places in their own right.

I'm looking into all three of these.

 

[Yankeedanielo]

By the way, not sure if it matters to you, but life as a doctor in Australia and NZ is much better than Singapore. You'd have less stress while working, more time off, also more time off for CME, plus more sick leave and paternity leave if you have a family, not to mention considerable money allocated to things like CME (about $20-$25k per year for staff specialists), long service leave if you've worked long enough at one employer (e.g., a hospital or their network), great retirement (superannuation), salary loading, free universal healthcare for residents and citizens, very cheap education compared to the US (most med students are only like maybe $50k in debt and they don't have to pay it back unless they make over a certain amount each year), etc. You could work in Australia then travel to work in Asia on your holidays or vacation too. But prob harder to do the other way around from Asia to Australia. Lots of good things about practising in Australia! There are challenges too, but as an experienced specialist you'd be in a better position than those just starting out.

Thanks. I'll be researching this. Thanks for being so helpful.