I am a Board Certified family physician in the u.s. who is interested in doing volunteer work in a Thai clinic or hospital for one month in the summer of 2005. any leads/contacts?

thanks for any help!

j

You will have to write to hospitals here to get a letter of invitation. Try some of these

* World Medic - Database of Thai Hospitals http://www.worldmedic.com/

Bangkok Hospital - Bangkok, Thailand http://www.bangkokhospital.com/

Bangkok Phuket Hospital - Phuket, Phuket, Thailand http://www.phuket-health-travel.com/

Kluaynamthai General Hospital - Bangkok, Thailand http://goldsite.com/Medical/Kluaynamthai/index.html

You can get URLs for these at http://adams.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalwebworld.html#THAILAND

Phyathai Phuket Hospital - Phuket, Thailand

Thonburi Hospital - Bangkok, Thailand

Trang Ruampat Hospital - Trang, Thailand

There's a longer list at http://www.traveller2000.com/bangkok/hospitals.htm

Check out http://www.thai-la.net/visa/visa.htm to see if you can get a visa for this.Maybe under teaching or temporary employment. You should also contact the neatest Thai consulate or the Thai Embassy in Washington DC before doing anything else.

http://www.pda.or.th/e_award.html

This is the website for Senator Viravyda's project. I have already been in touch with him about treating AIDS/HIV patients at at one of his clinics.

Short version is going through him wil open doors for you. Good luck...