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Before Brexit, recruiters would come to Italy to hire medical university graduates. My friend while at uni found a job working as a radiology technician for an
by sph 3y ago
Before Brexit, recruiters would come to Italy to hire medical university graduates. My friend while at uni found a job working as a radiology technician for an external NHS contractor. The pay was great, he also had a company car to basically sit all day in the hospital.
This is how badly the UK needed doctors, before they decided to close the doors to immigration, thinking people like my friend were stealing jobs to more deserving British radiologists.
- whimsicalism 3y agoInteresting, I perceive the UK as one of the worst paying for doctors in the Anglosphere.
- sph 3y agoWhich speaks a lot of how badly they're paid in the rest of the EU if they choose to move to Britain. And how much Britain needed medical help to go recruit abroad. I do not think German nor US companies are sitting outside Italian universities to entice young talent. IIRC he was earning around £4000 a month, which is unheard of in Italy at the start of one's medical career.
- whimsicalism 3y ago> And how much Britain needed medical help to go recruit abroad. I do not think German nor US companies are sitting outside Italian universities to entice young talent. Medical labor in the US is far too organized to let providers do anything remotely resembling this. It is not due to lack of need, hiring foreign doctors is politically impossible in the US due to regulatory capture.
- woleium 3y agoI think the exams are different? Why would a practicing doctor stop earning to do the mcap and work in the states?
- whimsicalism 3y agonot just the exam, you have to do the residency again, most other countries make it far easier for foreign doctors to join - The US pays extremely well so that would be a motivating factor