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Cosmos
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Migration advice for doctors

Post by Cosmos » Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:24 pm

Dear experts,

My friend from Venezuela is a doctor and would like to know if there is a short cut for him to get into the migration process easily.

As I know medics were in the shortage list in the UK is that still the case?

Many thanks in advance.

Cosmos

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Post by ban.s » Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:25 am

there is no short cut / special provision for doctors anymore. permit free employment category was withdrawn long back. medics are not even in the shortage list - there are plenty UK graduates completing their courses, plus doctors from EU - as a result tier 1 immigrant doctors were even restricted from taking training posts (which were sought after medical jobs).

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Post by Cosmos » Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:25 pm

Thank you for your reply.

My last question is, what type and how long is the trainning course he needs to do to be able to work here in the UK?

Many thanks

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Post by MPH80 » Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:12 pm

I suspect you're best off asking the GMC:

http://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/index.asp

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Post by Cosmos » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:48 pm

Thank you MPH80!

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