Cruise doctor

Ships Doctors
Maritime medicine is one of the most exciting and developing specialities in the medical profession. It offers unique career benefits including the chance to practise a combination of private practice, emergency medicine and critical care, and exposure to invaluable and challenging experiences that will develop career-enhancing new skills.
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Maritime Medicine
Imagine the comfort of a luxurious hotel, fresh sea air, and waking up each morning to a different shoreline. Add unpredictability, adventure, and scope to develop professionally—what do you have? A career in maritime medicine.
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How does one become a ship's doctor?
It depends on what type of ship's doctor you wish to be: short term fill in, intermediate length contract (a few months to a couple of years), or career choice. All are available but suit different people and have slightly different requirements.
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Confessions of a cruise ship doctor
Andrew Lucas provides some insight into ship life.
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Cruise Medicine
You cannot train to become a ship's doctor. There is no exam to fail repeatedly. Surprisingly perhaps, you will find no competition in securing a post—there are enough posts for all suitable applicants. In fact, the questions most ship's doctors ask themselves soon after taking up a contract are: "Where is everybody?" and "Why are they not queuing for my job?"
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Working as a ship's doctor
If you enjoy your work as a general practitioner, but dream of world travel on a payroll, becoming a ship's doctor might just be what you're looking for.
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Ship's doctor work far from fiction
Personal experiences as a ship's doctor.
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The wards less travelled
Believe it or not, positions for cruise ship physicians are readily available to those with the right training and the willingness to be cut off from traditional medical facilities for weeks at a time.
The New Physician 2007......Read More

My voyage as a ship's doctor
An amazing voyage on a tall ship with a disabled crew.
Pulse 2007......Read More