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Providing primary care at a remote refugee camp. Running a clinic for patients with tuberculosis or HIV. Caring for trauma patients at a large Ministry of Health hospital. The work of a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is incredibly diverse, and dependent on the specific needs of the people we’re working with.

The work is challenging, and often involves balancing clinical care with management and training for colleagues.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF doctor, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

Dr Ebenezer Ngwakwe at work in Old Fangak hospital
Ebenezer Ngwakwe
Ebenezer Ngwakwe
Doctor
Hope and humanitarian medical care in Old Fangak, South Sudan
With the right medications and enough to eat, people with HIV can live long, healthy lives. But what happens when you live in a place where access to these basics is a challenge? Dr Ebenezer Ngwakwe writes...
01 Dec 2020 / 8 minute read
Dr Ibie Mohammed
Ibie Mohammed
Doctor
COVID-19 in Baghdad: “Beauty and the beast“
Everything you think you know about Iraq is wrong. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) doctor Ibie Mohammed looks back on six weeks in the COVID-struck country that’s full of surprises…
23 Oct 2020 / 5 minute read
Dr Ibie Mohammed
Ibie Mohammed
Doctor
“May your hand thrive!”: Treating COVID-19 in Iraq
At Al-Kindy teaching hospital in Iraq, the MSF team supports the COVID-19 ward. For one patient, this had life-changing consequences. Dr Ibie Mohammed shares the story…
15 Oct 2020 / 5 minute read
Dr Ibie Mohammed
Ibie Mohammed
Doctor
“Collateral Beauty”: Emergency and emerging humanity in the COVID ICU
When a COVID-19 patient’s oxygen levels start dropping rapidly in Baghdad, Dr Ibie Mohammed and the team have to think fast to save a life…
06 Oct 2020 / 6 minute read
Ayla Emmink is an MSF doctor from the Netherlands
Ayla Emmink
Doctor
Another goodbye
COVID-19 travel restrictions mean that many of our key medical and logistical staff aren't able to reach the projects where they're desperately needed. But what does that mean for teams on the ground? Dr Ayla blogs...
14 Aug 2020 / 4 minute read
Entrance to the ICU at Lankien hospital
MSF doctor, Jennifer Hulse
Jennifer Hulse
Doctor
Eight spaces on the plane
The team at Lankien hospital in South Sudan are preparing for their first COVID-19 patients when a violent attack on a nearby town brings a crisis of a different kind. British doctor Jennifer Hulse shares this powerful eyewitness account from a "mass casualty event".
12 Aug 2020 / 12 minute read
Ayla Emmick outside the MSF hospital in Bentiu
Ayla Emmink is an MSF doctor from the Netherlands
Ayla Emmink
Doctor
COVID-19 in South Sudan: "We can do this, together"
What's it like to wait for a pandemic to hit your hospital? As they make all the preparations they can, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) doctor Ayla writes from remote Bentiu, in South Sudan...
01 Aug 2020 / 2 minute read
Maura Emelina Lainez Vaquiz - MSF doctor
Maura Emelina Lainez Vaquiz
Doctor
The power we have over our bodies: How COVID-19 is affecting family planning in Honduras
For women and girls living in the city of Choloma, widespread violence and poverty mean that access to family planning services is absolutely critical. However, COVID-19 restrictions have closed clinics and cut off vulnerable patients. MSF doctor Maura shares this powerful and passionate report.
20 Jul 2020 / 7 minute read
Ayla Emmink is an MSF doctor from the Netherlands
Ayla Emmink
Doctor
COVID-19 in South Sudan: Waiting for the wave - Part 2
As the pandemic disrupts medical supplies and staff, doctor Ayla Emmink is relocated from her rural project to a vast UN displacement camp – where our teams are racing to prepare for the arrival of COVID-19
16 Jul 2020 / 7 minute read
Ayla Emmink is an MSF doctor from the Netherlands
Ayla Emmink
Doctor
COVID-19 in South Sudan: Waiting for the wave - Part 1
As the pandemic disrupts medical supplies and staff, doctor Ayla Emmink is relocated from her rural project to a vast UN displacement camp – where our teams are racing to prepare for the arrival of COVID-19
14 Jul 2020 / 7 minute read
Ayla Emmink is an MSF doctor from the Netherlands
Ayla Emmink
Doctor
South Sudan: "This is what we signed up for"
As the first cases of COVID-19 are confirmed in South Sudan, doctor Ayla Emmink shares her concerns for communities and patients in an area where many preventative measures are a luxury
29 Jun 2020 / 4 minute read
MSF doctor, Anna-Clara Ivarsson
Anna-Clara Ivarsson
Doctor
How Merveille beat measles (with some help from MSF)
When a child came to the hospital with a strange rash, the MSF team in Bossangoa didn't jump to any conclusions. But then another arrived, and another. Clara shares the story of what happened next...
23 Jun 2020 / 5 minute read
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