| If you are a medical graduate out of job, you | | | | these locum tenens jobs require previous |
| should try to look for temporary positions | | | | experience though. |
| available in various hospitals. Those are called | | | | What is interesting is this: although locum positions |
| medical locums (from the Latin 'locum tenens', but | | | | are usually insured against malpractice claims, your |
| you should already know that if you've studied | | | | boss can skip this... and make you responsible if |
| medicine) and in the majority of places, they are | | | | something goes wrong. Remember to check for |
| managed by government agencies like the four | | | | things like these when applying for medical jobs. |
| National Health Service organizations in the U.K. | | | | In Australia, there are a lot of medical locum |
| About 80 per cent from the 3,500 active locum | | | | openings. That's why Australia attracts a lot of |
| doctors are managed by these health | | | | potential medical scientists and practitioners. If you |
| organizations, but the average time practiced by | | | | ever wanted to live in Australia, you can search |
| locum doctors is about three months. | | | | for a medical locum position. It's easy and doesn't |
| Medical jobs like these generally are paid less than | | | | require much thought. However, government |
| the doctor being replaced temporarily, but the | | | | institutions in Australia are usually willing to accept |
| professional placeholders still have to perform the | | | | you only if you have previous experience. It is a |
| same duties (more or less). Aside from being a | | | | common practice among medical students to |
| career opportunity, a medical locum is a great | | | | accept medical job offers from local hospitals, |
| place to practice medicine if you haven't had the | | | | and, after their contracts have expired, going |
| chance to do it before, as well as do some | | | | abroad in pursuits of a better paid job. |
| traveling. Ever wanted to live in Europe? In | | | | We hope that this information will help you to find |
| Australia? In the U.K, India, the U.S.? If you've | | | | a proper job in no time. Always remember - |
| studied medicine, that is most certainly possible. | | | | although you probably won't find a medical locum |
| A common practice in the U.S. is to seek | | | | job with a salary that fits your needs (you might, |
| psychiatrists and other doctors with a focus on | | | | depends on how desperate the hospital is to find |
| mental illnesses for work in government | | | | a new doctor/nurse); locum tenens is a perfect |
| institutions. This includes both being a therapist for | | | | opportunity for people who have just finished |
| people returned home from the military, working | | | | medical studies. Not only will you get your hands |
| in drug rehab institutions and much more. Those | | | | on a practical job, but you can get lucky and get |
| locums are likely to become permanent, because | | | | a recommendation letter from the doctors at |
| there is a lack of such practitioners in the U.S. You | | | | your locum hospital. Or even better, you can |
| can search for jobs like these online - both in | | | | apply for a permanent position at the hospital |
| government websites and in private ones. Most of | | | | after you've finished working there. |