A career involving the following combination!

hey!

I wanted to know if there is anything out there that I could do with the combination:

- Providing healthcare, helping people
- travelling around the world
- and being paid enough for food and shelter( or it could be a type of volunteer work as long as living expenses are paid) ?

At the moment I am doing a biomedical sciences degree and wanted to know if there is a career that involves the above?

Thanks

Reply 1

Quilverine

18

A missionary?
Edit: sorry that sounded flippant. I sort of meant like Doctors Without Borders. I am sure they need clinical support staff?

(edited 10 years ago)

Reply 2

moonkatt

19

You can do this with quite a few healthcare careers, as the poster above me said, there's Medecins Sans Frontiers, the Mercy Ships and a host of other organisations that provide healthcare to people around the world. It all depends on what sort of role you want to do though and getting experience within that job prior to travelling.

Reply 3

Happy_Holidays

15

Probably the best careers for doing that are doctors or nurses as they're internationally recognised qualifications and usually most wanted uh the organisations that provide healthcare overseas.

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Reply 4

moonkatt

19

Original post by Happy_Holidays

Probably the best careers for doing that are doctors or nurses as they're internationally recognised qualifications and usually most wanted uh the organisations that provide healthcare overseas.

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Don't a lot of the organisations that do disaster relief accept paramedics now? Also, I saw an advert recently for a paramedic role in Bristol or somewhere down there involved in high risk urban rescue stuff. Sounded pretty interesting.

Reply 5

Happy_Holidays

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Original post by moonkatt

Don't a lot of the organisations that do disaster relief accept paramedics now? Also, I saw an advert recently for a paramedic role in Bristol or somewhere down there involved in high risk urban rescue stuff. Sounded pretty interesting.

They do but it tends to be more disaster relief than actual going out more long term and drugs issues can be interesting depending on the laws of the country. As for the job in Bristol that was probably the Hazardous Area Response Team.

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Reply 6

moonkatt

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Original post by Happy_Holidays

They do but it tends to be more disaster relief than actual going out more long term and drugs issues can be interesting depending on the laws of the country. As for the job in Bristol that was probably the Hazardous Area Response Team.

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Yeah that was the job, I couldn't remember the name of them when I was typing my reply earlier. Sounds like an interesting role.