Junior docs are being lured to Australia by a job advert promising them a hefty pay cheque and 20 days off every month to “journey, swim and surf within the solar”.
A job advert from Blugibbon Medical Recruitment is focusing on UK docs with an accident and emergency expertise. It guarantees a deal the place docs need to work 10 shifts a month and might “journey, swim and surf within the solar” for the opposite 20 days, with an annual wage of $240,000 Australian {dollars} (Rs 1.3 crore) and “lodging offered”. It additionally guarantees a sign-in bonus of Rs 2.7 lakh.
The advert is offered on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) careers web site. The picture of the advert was shared on Twitter by writer and former medical specialist Adam Kay.
Together with the image, he wrote, “How miserable to see this within the BMJ. It is laborious to say these figures do not current a compelling argument. All of it results in a giant query for the govt.: in case you do not deal with docs’ very affordable pay considerations, alongside their circumstances and wellbeing, guess the place they are going?”
He added, “It goes with out saying they did not ask about utilizing most of my identify.”
Try the tweet right here:
How miserable to see this within the BMJ. It is laborious to say these figures do not current a compelling argument. All of it results in a giant query for the govt.: in case you do not deal with docs’ very affordable pay considerations, alongside their circumstances and wellbeing, guess the place they are going? pic.twitter.com/24oKKrgfLa
— Adam Kay (@amateuradam) May 3, 2023
In keeping with the Impartial, the advert is in a reference to Adam Kay’s bestselling e-book detailing his gruelling experiences as a junior physician within the NHS, This Is Going to Harm, the advert within the BMJ states: “Obtained that Dr Adam Ok feeling? Come to Australia!”
In a extra detailed advert posted on the BMJ web site, for a job in Brisbane, the corporate writes: “A&E Registrar sick of the NHS? This is not going to harm… Come to Australia for a working vacation to flee the grind. And why? As a result of we have now tens of hundreds of vacant nursing posts.”
The advert guarantees Rs 1 lakh per shift for a yr, together with a completion bonus after 12 months – placing profitable candidates within the “high 5 per cent of Australian earners”.