Graduate doctors trained in Ukraine - who fled the country before the war but do not have Ukrainian citizenship - currently have nowhere to go. If arrangements in the Netherlands do not change, they will have to leave the Netherlands on Sept. 4. Going back to Ukraine is not an option, neither is going back to Nigeria: "we can't go forward and we can't go backward."
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Besides more certainty about how long they can stay in the Netherlands, it is very important for them to continue to gain practical experience in healthcare during their time here. Together with doctors, healthcare institutions and policy makers, Open Embassy looks at what we can do for third-country nationals for the long term. In addition, this is immediately a concrete call for internships for third-country nationals in healthcare.
Third-country internships
Call for care workers and care institutions
Do you work in healthcare, would you like to do something and do you see opportunities to creatively create internships for third-country nationals, allowing a medical graduate with a degree from Ukraine to gain practical work experience in the Netherlands? Then please contact Pepijn Tielens from OpenEmbassy (pepijn@openembassy.nl).
You can think about taking a day and looking in, setting up a summer internship, setting up a project or offering the opportunity to (co)work under supervision. Joyce Browne and Iris Homan of UMC Utrecht are experienced in setting up a . Together with them we would like to think about setting up such a place.
Situation of third-country nationals
More background on the situation can be found in the links below to articles from Medical Contact and Physician in Spe:
