The ‘Working Overseas’ Category

I am interested to know how deeply the cry for medical help in Haiti was heard in NZ. Are we so far removed in the geographic sense that we don’t see it as our problem? Of course we recognise the pronounced doctor shortage in our country, but at the same time we should recognise that we are not alone in experiencing this problem. We can no less afford to send doctors (and other healthcare professionals) overseas to assist during the aftermath than most other nations that have engaged with the relief effort. Can this really be an ‘excuse’ or a justification for sticking with our regular jobs in the face of such a dire situation?

Welcome to Triple0’s September newsletter. This month we celebrate Clown Doctors and join Facebook, we find out why Australian and English migrants are scoring big in New Zealand, highlight September’s hottest events in Australia and New Zealand, and giveaway tickets to the finest Rock bash in town.

Manoj, who graduated from the University’s School of Medicine in 2005 and was chief executive of the student-initiated entrepreneurial challenge Spark, beat tens of thousands of applicants from around the world for one of the scholarships on offer this year…and is believed to be just the 25th Kiwi to be accepted for the MBA programme at Harvard.

Burundi is a tiny central African country, dwarfed by its neighbors Tanzania and the DRC. In 1993 civil unrest broke out leading to genocide and hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees fled into Tanzania. Peace has been a long time coming, and it is only in the last couple of years that people have been able to return home, some 15 years after they fled. Western Tanzania has been the home to one of the largest refugee populations in the world – approximately 500,000 mostly Burundian but also Congolese refugees. This number has shrunk as people have been repatriated or resettled.

Ireland. Land of black beer, white legs and orange fake tan. But is the Emerald Isle really the greener pasture we’re all looking for in terms of work?

Having spent about 3 months now in Ireland, I am beginning to get a first hand insight into answering this question. But instead of one simple answer, [...]

I’d always thought of the US medical environment as quite enigmatic before I ventured over here. Could doctors really be as good looking as on ER? Could the system really cost as much as they say? Now that I’m in Boston studying public health (focusing on international health policy) I can more understand the second [...]