Hello, listeners, Maddie Watts here. This month is going to be a bit of an atypical episode.

As you may have noticed, Mike is not here and we will not be doing a case today. On the past few

episodes, you might have heard us talking about an international opportunity that I was lucky enough to

participate in through my residency. For the past two months, I have been in New Zealand, and part of that time,

I was able to actually work in the ED as a registrar, which is basically the New Zealand equivalent

of a resident. Doing so made it a bit difficult for me and Mike to record, so that's one reason

for the different episode this month. However, we also thought

that some listeners might like to hear more about the experience. A lot of you are medical

students and might be interested in knowing what international opportunities are out there,

both during your residency and after you get to your attending hood. Also, we do have some

international listeners, so I thought it might

be nice to shed some light on how medicine operates somewhere outside of the United States.

So a few disclaimers. Number one, this will not be a how to lesson on how to set up an international

rotation. I was fortunate enough that my program had a specific connection with a specific hospital already

in place.

And obviously, I only know how this works with regards to one country.

So I won't be able to give you a how to guide of working abroad, whether in residency or after residency.

Secondly, this is just my personal experience. It's directly shaped by the specific ED environment

that I've worked in in the States, as well as the specific ED environment that I worked in in New

Zealand. And so the things that I experienced

may not be generalizable to other people's experiences. That being said, I'm going to try to keep

this as factual as possible based off of what I've learned through talking to some of the

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