Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Origin Medical, a New Zealand–based medical recruitment agency. For over a decade, they’ve helped U.S.-trained physicians and their families make the move, supporting everything from medical council registration to immigration...
Practicing Medicine in New Zealand
7 Things We’ve Learned Watching Hundreds of Doctors Move to New Zealand
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by NZDr, a New Zealand–owned specialist medical recruitment agency. We’re featuring this piece because NZDr has supported hundreds of physicians relocating to New Zealand, and their observations closely mirror what we hear from...
What it’s Really Like as a Locum Tenens Physician in New Zealand
A big thank you to Global Medical Staffing for sponsoring this post! Global Medical Staffing is a locum tenens agency with a worldwide reach that places U.S. doctors in New Zealand, Australia, Guam, Saipan, the Caribbean, Canada, and of course, the United States, and...
Top 5 Questions to Ask Before Signing a Contract in New Zealand
A big thank you to NZDr for sponsoring this post! NZDr is a New Zealand owned and operated specialist medical recruitment agency. They are one of several preferred suppliers to the national public health system, Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand. They recruit Hospital...
2025, New Year, New Beginnings….New Zealand! What you need to know.
A big thank you to NZDr for sponsoring this post! NZDr is a New Zealand owned and operated specialist medical recruitment agency. They are one of several preferred suppliers to the national public health system, Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand. They recruit Hospital...
How to Practice Medicine in New Zealand – the Webinar
Ready to turn your New Zealand dreams into a reality? We’ve invited the experts from NZDr, a specialist physician recruiting advisory in New Zealand, to answer your questions. You’ll meet Martin King, a recruiter and licensed immigration adviser, and Kate...
What it’s Like to be a Black Doctor in Australia
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a Black Physician abroad? Are race relations any different outside the US? Today, I'm chatting with Dr.Carmen Brown, an author, blogger, practicing OB/GYN, and founder of ExpatMD, a consulting service that helps physicians...
29 Years After Immigrating to the US, I Left.
People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live." - Brene Brown In her earlier post, Dr. Dionne Mills-Sillik shared her...
Why This OB/GYN Moved Abroad
"True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don't need to regularly escape from" - Brianna Wiest I always knew there was something different about how I saw America, because I was able to see it as an outsider. I...







