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Budapest 12th November 2009
One thousand young doctors protested in Budapest about their working conditions and salary. Most say they don’t want to go but if the conditions don’t improve then 70% think they will leave Hungary.
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/young_doctor/?cHash=8df5095bdb
UK EXPERIENCE VS NO UK EXPERIENCE
We are finding that it is much harder to get doctors into the NHS without previous UK experience. THis is not a rule, sometimes we can and sometimes we cant. What we do know is that having UK experience makes it much easier.
The solution to this is to take a job as an RMO initially and work in the private sector for a while. This has the benefits of having a well established route of entry into the UK and the job. The positions are not considered a career choice. Saying that they offer excellent salaries, working schedules that can work to your advantage if organised….and ……a stepping stone into the NHS.
Hello,
My name is Alin and i have been working as an RMO for almost 6 weeks now, and i just want to say that the UK experience really changed my view about the medical act.But indeed if you just plan to work here for the money will probably never get the chance of working after in UK other than a RMO, but if you struggle to make connections and make yourself visible things may happen.
So i do reccomend that everyone should give it a try.
Best regards,
Hi,
I am Zoltan and I just started to work in Chichester Nuffield Hospital as an RMO. I have no intention to stay in the UK as I already secured a training position in the US. Although I would like to give you some feedback about the recruitment process and my first impression about being here as an RMO.
First. The recruitment is fairly easy. Once you pass the minimum requirements (Language and enough experience in the right field) You will participate on a short training, where you are also tested on very basic medical skills. This was extremely friendly and it gives both sides an impression whether you fit or not and whether that is what you are looking forward or not. After that, it is only paperwork and even more paperwork, which is fairly easy, but quite annoying. I was told not to worry about anything. I did, but just because I did not believe how smooth the procedure is. It would have been good to know about the timelines, that would have made my preparation a bit less stressful, but anyway everything worked out just fine as I was promised by the team. I had to give a loads of paper to the A-team office in Budapest, and they arranged everything. I then had to attend an ID check at the GMC to have my registration done and I was here to start my job. In Aylesbury the team took care all of my government related paperwork, including work authorization and health insurance. All I needed to do is open a bank account and get a mobile phone number, which was fairly easy with their help. And here I am now, on service, on my first week. The hospital is “lovely”. (you will hear this word often in the UK.) It is well equipped, neat and very well organized. I have my exact role, it is well described and easy to adjust to. The nurses are supernice and even if I ask back 3 times because I didn’t get what “group and save” is, they keep smiling… After that they explain everything. They teach me everything step by step. My room is nice, just like a hotel room and I even have a treadmill so I do not need to interrupt my preparation for the marathon. It was pure luck, but I am very grateful for this. I already learned a lot about post-op care and I can see the shortcomings of the Hungarian care (that is not so hard to see). And even though It is not the most intensive training program, you will learn a lot.
As a conclusion: If you are opened and have some bravery to jump into something unexpected to make new connections in the UK or just to make money, I strongly recommend it. You can trust the team, they know what they are doing and if they say: “Yes, you are good for us” believe them! And they will take care of everything just follow the instructions in a timely manner and trust them again.
Best wishes and good luck for everybody.
Zoltan
Hello there Zoltan. It’s good to hear such great news. I am in the middle of the recruitment process right now but i would like to keep in touch with you if possible for more details and questions i might have since i will be doing mostly the same thing you are doing now. My mail adress is dr.andreeaj2010@yahoo.com. Hope to hear from you soon. Good luck. Andreea
Marathon effort for mothers and sick children
Greg Dorey, the British Ambassador to Hungary, will launch a major new fund-raising appeal, with an initial target of €50,000, at the 13th annual Budapest Burns Supper on Saturday 30 January 2010.
The plan is to raise funds to expand the number of mother and child distance trauma suites at the Second Department of Paediatrics at Budapest’s Semmelweis University Hospital, better known as SOTE II.
The rooms will allow the mothers of critically ill children coming in from the Hungarian countryside (and possibly, under certain circumstances, from outside the country’s borders) to stay with their offspring, an important aid to recovery. SOTE II has very few such facilities at present.
Tackling the fund-raising drive is A-Team DIrector, Harry Harron, who will take part in April 2010 in what is known as the toughest foot race on earth: the Marathon des Sables (MdS). Harry is running along with Simon Saunders, an English man also based in Budapest. The two men are the only Hungary-based entrants from an international field of 750, and the first for five years.
The challenge covers 250km (155 miles), which equates to about five-and-a-half marathons, and is run across the Sahara Desert over six days. Competitors have to carry with them food, clothes, medical kit, sleeping bag, in fact everything they will need for the duration, apart from water and a tent. (Water is rationed and handed out at each checkpoint.)
Harron and Saunders will have to prepare all their own food throughout the race, and will need a minimum of 2,000 calories per day. Mid-day temperatures can get as high as 49°C (about 120°F), much of the day is spent running or hiking across uneven, rocky ground, and up to 20% of the total distance actually involves traversing sand dunes.
Physical fitness is important, of course, but only a fool would underestimate the mental stress that the team will need to endure. “Even though we have run many 42km (26 mile) marathons and mountain marathons between us, this does not mean that we will find the MdS easy – we are doing lots of training,” Harron and Saunders say on their blog (http://harryandsimon.wordpress.com/).
Saunders is the elder of the two-man team at 38. Now a personal trainer, he is a former cross-country athlete who has represented the UK. Harron, a pharmacist and entrepreneur, is 37. He has plenty of running experience of his own, and has already traversed 500km (310 miles) of this desert using wind power in the form of a kite and an adapted buggy.
Directing the appeal and making sure the funds raised will be able to do the most good is the Robert Burns International Foundation, which distributes money raised by the annual Budapest Burns Supper, among other sources. Chairing the fund raising appeal will be Patrick McMenamin, who runs popular Budapest Scottish bar and restaurant The Caledonia, and who is also a member of the organising committee for the Burns Supper.
Harron and Saunders can be contacted via their blog, and Harry can be reached via email (harry.harron@ateamhr.com).
McMenamin can be contact via email on caledoniabar@yahoo.co.uk.
Press release prepared for the Robert Burns International Foundation (www.rbif.org) by Robin Marshall, Devil’s Advocate Communications.
Interviews with NES Healthcare
The international agency A-Team Medical Recruitment organized on the 4th of February, in Bucharest, training-interviews with the employer of Resident Medical Officers – NES Healthcare. The event started at 8.30 AM and finished at 6 PM.
At first, all of the 12 candidates took an 1 hour English test (listening, writing, reading). After that, the 2 trainers made a detailed presentation of the NES Healthcare company : history, types of clients, the benefits of signing a contract with NES, the importance of the Resident Medical Officer position, RMO job description, the structure of a working day, the type of procedures and protocols to be followed etc.
At 1 PM all participants took a deserved lunch break and at 2 PM the activities started again with a pharmaceutical training (BNF importance, presentation of a clinical case, drug prescription, the analysis of the proposed prescriptions). After that, the participants organized into 2 groups have demonstrated their skills and knowledge in the use of instruments and medical procedures required by the trainer.
From 4 PM until around 4.35 PM the participants had to answer 50 questions related to issues previously presented and practiced. This exercise continued with individual interviews and with the elaboration of 5 drug prescriptions for 5 clinical cases.
After the event, in a more informal context, the participants addressed questions and received clarifications from the organizers.
In order to have a visual image of this event I am adding some pictures made during the training day : http://picasaweb.google.com/laurentiu.ateam/RMOTrainingOrganizedByATeamMedicalRecruitmentNESHealthcare?feat=directlink
A-Team Medical Recruitment has identified new job opportunities for doctors in Germany and the United Kingdom.
In Germany we can offer both Specialist and Resident positions on all specialties in private and public hospitals. The mandatory condition for taking this positions is a good level of German (B2).
For more information and for a CV template please visit our Romanian http://www.ateam.ro/cariere/noutati/hot-jobs-pentru-doctori-in-germania-si-uk.html and Hungarian pages http://www.ateamhungary.com/munkavallaloknak/orvosok-rezidensek/uj-nemetorszagi-allasok.html.
We are also offering new positions in elite private hospitals from UK on various specialties : Intensive Care, Anesthetics, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Urology etc.
For more details please visit : http://www.ateam.ro/cariere/noutati/hot-jobs-pentru-doctori-in-germania-si-uk.html.
We are happy to receive your applications and to respond promptly.
Hi, my name is Dan and I’m from Romania. I’ve been living in the UK for almost one and a half month and working as an RMO since 24th of may 2010. But all this started a half of year ago back in Romania with the recruitment process, which was very fast, meaning an email (from me) with my intention to work in UK, their reply(A TEAM) with an invitation to a phone interview, and then paper work…The whole process lasted about…6-7 month…till when I’ve actually begun my contract at Fairfield Independent Hospital in St.Helens, Merseyside. I have to admit that I was very impressed by the way in which the recruitment agency treated me and made all this very easy, but professional as well. As a result, the date I started working in UK was the date that I’ve chosen at the very first time.
Dealing with A-Team made me realise how easy is to get into this new kind of prospect. After a few phone interviews meant to assess your english language, and basic medical knowledge, you have to attend a few more serious (but not scary) courses and assessments:ACLS,PALS.
Everybody is so helpful to get you as quickly as possible in the position you are looking forward. They even do some of your paperwork (work permit and GMC registration). Picking me up from the GMC and taking me to my accomodation was also apart af the deal (contract!). Not to mention phone calls with questions like:’Are you allright there…or…”Everything going well with the accomodation…are you settled already?”…
The hospital is very nice…like a five stars hotel. Everybody is with a big smile on their faces and trying to put you in their “team”…
My apartment is the best it could be…two rooms, bathroom, kitchen with everything….it’s outside the hospital in the garden (a beautiful one).
The work here is very easy because you have all the things that you need and it’s almost all about pre and post op care …ECGs, medications etc.
So, if you intent to make a difference in your life…just give it a try…
Good luck…
Hello there. My name is Andreea, I am a third year resident doctor in Romania, training to be a pediatric surgeon (not necessarily in Romania) and at the present time I am working both in my training and as an RMO in the UK. I found the A-Team agency “by accident” looking for a second job on the internet and I am pleased to say they are really great people, very helpful and kind and straightforward. The interview in Bucharest was quite difficult but that is how a serious interview should be and the entire process in my case lasted around 3-4 months. The training in NES Healthcare is extremely intense and ends with two exams that I believe every doctor should have at least once in their career no matter what their specialty is. I worked all together in 4 hospitals in the UK during these 6 months of contract in Leeds, Newcastle, Stockton and Huddersfield (this last one being my regular hospital). I do believe that beside the level of training, people (both medical staff and patients) do appreciate one’s personality for it is very important to keep a good level of communication and respect towards all the people you come in contact with. That is why I have become quite close to the nurses, the matron and all the rest of the staff and I can say they are very lovely people but also very demanding. Even if it may sound like a frustrating and boring job, I can definitely say it is an experience that one can learn from. And besides, the working environment that provides the medical staff with all the necessary equipment makes all the difference. I have already recommended both the agency and the job to many of my colleagues because I do believe it’s a great opportunity so if you have a good level of English give it a try. It can open may unexpected doors.
Hi !
My name is Monica, I am from Romania and I am a 3rd year medical resident in psychiatry. I attended the A-team interview held in Budapest on a week ago. For me it was a success and it looks like I am going to work in UK on a CT1 training position in psychiatry. I want to express my gratitude to the team A-team that proved much professionalism. I was unexpectedly and pleasantly surprised by the way this event was organized. I can not wait to start this UK experience and thank you A-team for the chance you have given me.
I would just like to speak about how amazing the A-Team is. From the
moment we started e-mailing each other, A-Team has been nothing but
supportive, friendly and helpful. I feel like this interview attending
… experience, would have been very difficult, but with A-Team, the
whole process went incredibly smooth.
I really appreciate all her effort. I feel also it’s not that she just told me what to do, she would go that extra step and follow up with me all the way, to make sure that things were done right. Thank you again for all your help and advice.
A-team has made the whole process of finding a job a pleasant procedure. Just wanted to thank everyone for all their time and patience in helping me reach my goal. Everyone has been really professional and supportive throughout this experience, which at times has been quite stressful.
I would definitely recommend A-Team to anyone wishing to follow a path
similar to mine. I must admit A-Team is truly professional and you deserve your amazing reputation. Thank you A-Team for all of your help and guidance along the way.
Margaret was fantastic also and helped me with all my silly questions. She was very approachable and always replied to my queries. Thank you very much for organizing the training course. It was a pleasure dealing with Harry and Margaret.