Welcome to the International Page

This section is meant to broaden your horizons with information about international opportunities for work.

If you have any suggestions about how we can improve this section email them to contact@bristolgpsolutions.org.uk

All the websites

The Primary Care Internet Guide is a comprehensive listing of useful Internet sites for primary care throughout the world. The site is provided by University of Bergen, Norway:
http://www.uib.no/isf/guide/guide.htm

International Opportunities

Sabbaticals
Medics Travel: http://www.medicstravel.co.uk

Career experience worldwide

BMJ provides information about what it is like to work or train in a country
www.bmjcareers.com

In the early 1990s Huw Morgan took a sabbatical exchanging his general practice in Bristol for a different role in the developing world. He has resigned from his practice in Bristol describes his experiences working abroad. He has described his experience in this article from BMJ Career Focus:
http://careerfocus.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/gp250?eaf

Colleges

Wonca is the unusual acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians. Wonca's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors

Global Family Doctor WONCA: http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com

The RCGP International committee

Provides educational exchange and dialogue between individual doctors, agencies and medical organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas. Promotes the standing and the study of general practice/family medicine, offers travel scholarships
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/international_home.aspx

Expedition Medicine

There are opportunities overseas with our range of expedition and adventure travel organisations.

Expedition Advisory centre: http://www.rgs.org/SpecialInterests/fieldworkandexpeditions/

Travel Advice

There are a range of different sites but these Scottish NHS sites are easy to use for travel advice

For travellers: http://www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk

For healthcare professionals advising travellers: www.travax.scot.nhs.uk

Relief Work

Medecins du Monde has a UK office sends volunteers overseas to provide medical care to vulnerable people who are effected by natural disasters, conflict and extreme poverty.Also run healthcare projects in their capital cities like London for marginalised populations who cannot access mainstream healthcare services www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk

Medecin San Frontieres is an international medical aid agency with a reputation of not only being the first to arrive in a crisis-hit area, but often, the only organisation to be there at all. http://www.uk2.msf.org/working4us/Fieldvolunteers/index.htm

Merlin exists to provide an immediate and effective response to medical emergencies throughout the world http://www.merlin.org.uk

Education

Alliance for Continuing Medical Education: http://www.acme-assn.org

1025 Montgomery Highway, Suite 105
Birmingham, AL 35216
(205) 824-1355

Other organisations

World Health Organisation: http://www.who.int/en/

Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA: http://www.cdc.gov

Journal of Travel Medicine has up-to-date research and original, peer-reviewed articles: http://www.istm.org/publications/jtm.aspx