Being a Healthcare Traveler is the GOAT

...your company will contact you to plan your next assignment and get that set up.

Once your current assignment ends, you will head out to your next assignment.

This is where it gets even better. In between assignments, you can take extra time off. Most people typically do 1-2 weeks but you can do longer if you want. I use this as an opportunity to do a roadtrip from my current location to the next and see lots of attractions and state/national parks along the way.

In short, I make about $100k as a new grad out of college with 5 years of schooling and I get to travel wherever I want in the US all subsidized by my employer and I get to take an extra long vacation/road trip every 3 months.

Feel free to ask questions!

Can you do this while being a med student, currently in 4th year in U. De Chile.
To which countries have you been assigned?
Which agencies have you used?

Cheers.

>>1246444
The type of agency I work with is strictly US, but they let you travel all over the different US states.

There are probably agencies that do international assignments but not that I know of off the top of my head. It is probably very different as international licensing is a lot of red tape.

I've currently been to Florida, Oregon, California, and Washington.

>>1246433
How about physicians?

My company does not do physicans but they do have an equivalent called a 'locum tenens physician". You essentially fill in at hospitals for doctors who will be gone for an extended period of time. I don't know much about it beyond that.

Thanks for posting, op. Can you go through what your life is like on a weekly basis? What exactly do your work days look like?

>>1246470
No problem. The work is like a typical 40hr/5 day week. The work itself depends on the type of facility you are in.

My current assignment is at a Skilled Nursing Facility (nursing home) in Oregon. I go into the facility at some time in the morning and they have a list waiting for me with the names of some patients and the number of minutes each need therapy and I go home when I get done with the list. Depending on how full the facility is, I might be there anywhere from 4-8 hours per day and can range 30-40 hours per week.

This assignment is pretty easy and laid back work to be honest but this can vary in different settings. For example, one of my previous assignments was in a big trauma hospital and it was very fast paced and had complex patients.

Overall, it is a pretty chill job.

>>1246470
Also, since I usually have a few days free each week, I usually take that time to check out the town I'm living in, explore a nearby city (I spend last weekend in a hostel in Portland) and the weekend before went camping at Mt. Hood

>>1246471
So is it paid by hour or salary? Thanks again. Been toying with the idea in Canada but I'm not sure it's as lucrative and I don't think I'd do it if I couldn't eventually so it internationally (like in Norway or Switzerland)

>>1246473
Check out bend if you get the chance! That place is a hidden gem. You can go tubing in the river and snowboarding in the same day! Plus, the restaurants, beer, and general fucking hippie vibe in that town is awesome.

>>1246463
Locum tenens bruh. Er docs can make over 10k per weekend. Free travels also. But yeah we go to medicine because we want to help. :).

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op is forgetting to mention that everyone you work with will hate you because you won't know fuckall about protocols and procedures at each new assignment so all the status employees will have to hold your fucking hand for the simplest shit, and when you're finally getting in the swing of things your contracts up and you leave, and the whole fucking process starts over with some new retard.

upside is you won't care that everyone hates you because you know you're only there for 6-12 months, so fuck'em.

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>>1246486
>bend
>3,000,000 visitors/year
>hidden gem
>mfw
lol. bend hasn't been anything close to hidden for at least 15 years.

>>1246636
What, MDs on trv?
Nice. Did any of you did a fellow abroad or moved even fully in a new country?

>>1246433
>PT
>Quick Degree
LOL Ok dude
OT is moving up to a PhD too. I'm a kinese major, even I hate that Orthotics and Prosthetics got moved up to an MS program. Speaking of which, do these agencies hire O&P clinicians?

Anyone have experience with traveling for plastic surgery? I just learned I need to have a septorhinoplasty

>>1246858
That's what they get for being on a power trip. At least OP wont have to be friends with them to keep his job.

>>1248042
>wanting competent coworkers=being on a powertrip
lolwut

>>1246433
>>1246438
I'm an RN based in CA and am currently getting multiple state's licenses so that this is an option. Seems like it could be cool for a while.

>>1248066
Working at a hospital is worst than high school. Cliques, gossip and if you're not friends with the head of your department, s/he will find any past mistakes you made at work, report it and your entire career is done.

>>1249219
That's any job, really. People never really grow up anywhere. That's the only thing that I've learned from "growing up" lol

Anything similar for pharmacists?

>>1246433
Do you know the specifics of what you need in SLP to do this? Masters? Im interested in this now.

Not the other guy, but UK MBBS here. To work in the US you'll need to pass all 3 USMLE steps. Not worth it. Plus the US healthcare system is completely different to the UK/aus.

>>1249276
and OP has more autonomy by traveling and working at different hospitals than working directly at one specific hospital.