mshaqal

How many days a week you work?

tihami

5 days a week + 1 weekend / month

tihami

Doc depends upon ur speciality at HMC. 40K for consultant at HMC is way less. it should be 60K atleast.

imtiaz

i cant see the answers to the questions
i am interested to know about family consultants job and packages please
regards imtiaz

tihami

Depends on the no of years post CCT. You can b a specialist ( 33-43 K) or consultant (45-52 K) or senior consultant (53 K +) / month

tihami

With 1 yr post CCT , pay looks ok.
Will u b working for A/E , Staff clinic or Ambulance service?

imtiaz

i have 5 years post MRCGP

tihami

so u will be in consultant category.

Shahjee

Hi Guys. Just found your forum, very useful. Thanks

Shahjee

Dear tihami, could you kindly tell us about the clinic set up: Do you have UK type sessions? single handed or a team member. How much is the appointment time, patients for session, home visits, advice calls, catch up time. Many thanks.

DR10NAT

Dear Colleagues

I am thinking of coming to work in Qatar and possibly working for PHCC. My main questions are.

1.Whats the accommodation like?
2.The work - will it involve night shifts; and if so how many?
3.Do the doctors who work there enjoy their working conditions?

Regards

tihami

in most of the health centers there are 2 types of the sessions. 0700-1400 and then evening 1600-2200 or 1700-2300. We do either morning or evening session. 5 days a week with a weekend oncall with similar shifts , once/month
No home visits. They are implementing cerner (the new EMR system) so apptt time is almost 15min for general walk-in type patients.

essexdr

Dear tihami,

Thank you for your informative posts. Like others, I am in the same situation i.e offer in place but finding it difficult to decide. To Join or Not to Join. I know individual circumstances vary. My question is What is the level of satisfaction while working in Qatar for UK trained GP.? By satisfaction i mean financial, work place and social.
Your input will be very much appreciated.

tihami

It all depends on ur reasons to move to Qatar. Stronger the reason, more the satisfaction. It is very individual I think. Job is less stressful. Saving are much better than UK , even if one is earning more in UK. There are already 90-100 UK/Aus/USA GP working here so u r not the only one. Only 3 UK GPs have left so far over the last 1.5 years b/c of their family reasons.

Having said that, Oil prices are going down and Middle East economy had a blow. There is cost cutting on the way so few things may change in future.

essexdr

Thank you tihami. That's very useful.