Product Description
This text is aimed at any medical student planning a medical elective or junior doctors wanting to travel or work abroad. Covering 80 destinations (including the UK), the guide offers an insight into what it is like to study and practise medicine in different countries. The author gives useful information on which hospitals to visit, their areas of specialism and practical information such as when to go, accommodation, who to contact, and related web sites. As well as the country-by-country information, the book contains general chapters covering information on planning an elective, career advice related to taking time out from medicine, occupational travel health, HIV and blood-borne diseases, and funding an elective.
About the Author
Mark Wilson BSc MBBChir MRCS 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.
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