Emergency Room doctor in Japan?

Emergency room doctor in japan?

  • I want to be an emergency doctor/surgeon in Japan HOW? I mean schooling job placement wise. DO NOT answer if your going to put in a long rant: blah blah blah not a multicultural country. I know but I have spoken to Japanese people and know that it isnt impossible.

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    A lot of doctors in Japan went to medical schools in the US, which are considered more prestigious and respectable than the Japanese medical schools. You still have to pass the certification exams in Japan of course. BTW, in Japan an ER doctor is considered the lowest of the low in the hierarchy of the medical profession. I just read an article that the average Japanese ER doctor works 100 hours a week (14hours/day) in awful conditions, and only makes about 300,000yen a month! For comparison, an English teacher on the JET program makes the same amount of money "working" 28 hours a week (but actually more like 3-4 hours/day of actual teaching). If you want to make money as a doctor in Japan, you should be a dentist, plastic surgeon, abortion doctor, or another kind of specialist like that. They do make a decent living, but still much less than a doctor in the US does.

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If you don't want non-sense answers, quit asking non-sense questions. Not impossible ? So is getting hit by a 747.

Kaori

Go to college in the US, major in pre-med, Apply, get accepted and graduatef from med school in the US, complete your residency, pass the boards, Then you are a certified phycisian. During your residnency specialize in emergency medicine to be an ER doctor. Next, extend your residency to include surgical medicine as your specialty. then take the board exams in Japan. Contact the US consulate and or the UN and inquire about special status to be a UN special status as an examining doctor in Japan serving the international community. Our family Doctor has such a status.

wuzaracer

I don't think ER is considered a specialty in Japan. The younger doctors just put in their time there until something better comes along. I'm not trying to discourage you-I'm just saying you are likely to be disappointed with the Japanese attitude towards emergency medicine. Sometimes people die in Japan because the ER can't be bothered to treat them.

michinoku2001

You need a four year degree to qualify for a work visa to work in Japan. Sorry, the chances of this happening are less than zero.

Vinegar Taster

If this is easy for you, it will be easy: Move to Japan if not already there, go to medical school, become a doctor, get a job. If you can do the job just as well as anyone else, then the fact you were born somewhere else shouldn't matter. It's also easy to become a movie star if this is easy for you: Move to L.A., do some small parts in TV shows and commercials, get noticed due to your looks and talent, be hired for small parts in movies, do larger parts in movies. It's easy to become a rock star too: Start a band. Practice the guitar and singing. Write good songs. Get your songs on college radio (or in Japan, on TV), get the right people to hear your stuff, get a contract, put out an album, tour it, put out another album, get the mainstream radio stations to play you, tour, and voila. Lots of stuff is easy.

Lloyd

Undergrad: Go pre-med track while double majoring in Japanese. Med school: Do most of it in America, if you can find ANY chance to go to Japan take it. After you graduate keep on trying to work in Japan. To make this all work you MUST BE PERFECT at everything. Have exceptional grades from a big well known school, and get exceptional reviews from your leading doctors. The trips to Japan, especially the vocational oriented ones aren't given out to just anybody.

sobuhutch

How about running your own business in Japan?

Joriental

then just go and do it already gzzzzzz

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To add to Mich's statement, The emergency medical system in Japan is entirely screwed up. There are many cases where hospitals just refuse to accept patients, recently an elderly lady died after being refused entry by 11 different hospitals! And don't think you are one of those "i'm not going to listen to my superiors and treat everyone" thats now how things work in Japan, orders from superiors are to be followed, or you'll never work in the field again. Japan isn't a multicultural country, thats just how it is, I'm sorry I don't know how to make that any clearer. I had a discussion about this with someone else a while ago, someone comes in with a hole in their leg they aren't going to care what someone's skin color is, That is a valid statement. However, the problem is the "system" in Japan makes it virtually impossible for a foreigner to get into such a position in the first place to treat that patient, so they would never see you in the first place. Sorry it is you who needs TO GROW UP and to look at it from a realistic point of view. I work and live in Japan, I know how it is is to be a foreigner living in Japan. I don't sit around at my computer making sh*t up all day then spending time to go to yahoo answers to waste my time to write an answer. If you want to move to Japan that is great. But the only good jobs western foreigners in Japan can get are not jobs as doctors, lawyers or politicians. It is jobs like language teaching or information technology work. It is something where they can't find another Japanese to do. If it came down to hiring a Japanese person or foreigner, employers will choose the Japanese. You need to have skills above and beyond, I mean above and beyond! that of a Japanese. If you plan to be a surgeon or doctor you better be the top graduate 1%, and number 1 specialist. That is the truth, thats how it is here on the ground in Japan right now for us foreigners. Don't think you can be a superman where you can single handedly change the entire Japanese system, thats now how it works.

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