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I am a U.S. trained board-certified anesthesiologist considering a move to the Escazu area. I would like to continue doing anesthesia for a few more years. Are there opportunities available? What do I need to do to get a license to practice medicine? Who could I contact to find a job opportunity?
Are you willing to work for less than $25,000 a year?
1st medical workers don’t make much money (thank god because this keeps their system affordable)
2nd you need to take a look at the CR embassy’s web site you will find you can’t get a job because as a retiree or any other residece status you are not able to make money!(unless you are married to a tica or under a temp workers permit) or become a citizen in wich you have to meet the amount of years as a resident with out pay first.
This topic comes up a lot! Maybe scott can have a article about this subject and clear up many of the misconceptions that people have.
I believe there is a drastic shortage of people in your profession here but it’s not easy for you to work here.
You can see the general requirements for an “anestesista” at “Artículo 13°- Anestesiología: Requisitos específicos: a) Dos años de residencia y adiestramiento académico en Anestesiología en Hospital Clase A, Universitario.”
You would fall under the Colegio de Medicos y Cirujanos
This is all assuming that you speak fluent Spanish and would be happy to work for Costa Rica wages which I doubt very much would be more than about $1,500 per month.
Anesthetists are not mentioned but you can get an idea of the minimum salaries in Costa Rica at
Best wishes
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comThe majority of working people in Costa Rica work for a lot less then $ 25,000,– a year.
Let us be glad that specialists like anesthesists are willing to work (!) and not walk around with $$-signs in their eyes.
Affordable health-system: pray to God that you don’t need the anesthesist, once you need him, he will not be there.
There is a lack of medical personnel in Costa Rica, read the article in La Nacion: http://nacion.com/ln_ee/2007/abril/30/pais1079125.html
Instead of discourage you should encourage this man to get a job in this land.
I commend a person that is interested in coming and working as a medical person to CR. If they come for the right reasons!
1st they must play by the rules and not skirt around the immigration laws. Please no perpetural tourist!
2nd they must understand that CR medical people are goverment workers and must understand that they will not earn the same as in the states.
In CR the medical profesion is not viewed the same as in the states where doctors are condiderd gods. The CR people are not as addicted to the medical system like the gringos. (if you don’t have private medical service its not the end of the world!)my wifes family employees 8 doctors in their busness, when I first herd this I laughed because in the states that would not happen. Instead the doctors own their own MRI machines and send their clients to their own machines and make extra money! Again this is not just the doctors, everyone in the medical biz wants the great saleries this is why a bed pan will cost you over 50.00 in the hostpital!
CR has a lot of their medical personal from other countries such as Cuba and willing to work for less than $25,000 a year this is why the states medical personal would be left in the cold if they thought it was easy to come and get a job.
Isn’t CIMA a private hospital? I don’t think all Doctors are government employees. You should speak with a qualified immigration attorney, perhaps there are some programs to bring in qualified specialists in your field. ScottB I must say it gets a little annoying that just because you married a Tica you are always waving the flag of don’t skirt the immigration laws etc…
CIMA is, indeed, a private hospital, but I think I know that the physicians who practice there, who are not employed by the government, must nevertheless adhere to a government-mandated fee schedule. And that fee schedule ain’t too high.
I’ve seen at least three U.S. board certified specialists who practice in the CIMA group. All three charge c30,000 for a one-hour consultation and examination. The internist throws in an ECG.
If income is important to the doc who posed this question in the first place, then let me propose another approach: Rather than trying to practice medicine here in Costa Rica, where the work will be no less demanding than in the U.S. but the rewards will be dramatically less, why not instead sign up with one of those medical temporary labor agencies who can place you in a U.S. hospital for a short-term assignment (maybe two or three months) and where you’ll make much more than what you’d earn here in a year? Yes, you won’t be here with the family, but you could work three hectic months and have a nine month vacation each year. (Just a thought.)
Well I belive that waving the flag of skirting the immigration laws is very important, because the problem here is that many people don’t understand that in the future if we don’t respect the laws of Costa Rica there will be a back lash from the Ticos. This is already happening in many areas of CR.
Many gringos that come to CR thinking that you can find a job are mis guided as well as the ones that are illegally working and trying to make a living in CR with out proper documentaiton.
I am sorry that you are annoyed that I am painting a truthful picture and not following the come as you please and break the law attitude. I like to tell my clients the truth because there are consiquecs of the purpetural tourist and that is they might loose all of their investments if they are caught.
Being married to a Tica and since her family is in the biz of employing doctors would give us some insight of the employment issues of that field. The doctors that work for her family company also work for the CIMA hosptial and others in the San Jose area. They work for her family because it is extra income.
Sorry if that annoys you lotus.
But Scott why assume an MD from the US is coming to CR to “skirt the rules” this was not implied in his question. He was just asking what his options were for working in his field in CR. You were incorrect also to state all doctors are government employees…they are not. It makes me doubt your expert credentials a bit.
I tend to agree with you, Lotus. Seems like ScottB tends to assume that everyone is out to milk the resources in Costa Rica. This is not intended to be an attack to you personally, but I kind of don’t see what you are contributing to Costa Rica, except probably take a job that a local can certainly fill (you are a real estate agent, true?).
The honest truth is, not to sound mean but merely stating a fact, anyone with an american passport would have women chasing them left and right. Please don’t loose your objectivity, most Americans/Canadian/Europeans bring more to the country than they take, if this were not the case you will not see the government allowing migration to the country.
There’s fact and there’s myth, kindly separate the two.
Isn’t CIMA connected to Baylor University Hospital in Texas. Maybe you could start there to gather information about working in CR.
Wow, Kim
Sounds like you have a hang up and looks like you are putting some CR women in to a green card chasing?(could be a little jealousy going on)”The honest truth is, not to sound mean but merely stating a fact, anyone with an American passport would have women chasing them left and right.”
The fact is that if you look at the laws of Cost Rica you will find that there are very limited residencies that will let you work legally in CR. You will have to show that you are performing a job in CR that a Tico can’t do.
As I ask my wife about this field she stated that there are many ticos that are highly educated to work this kind of job. She also was highly offended by your comment and stated that it is a normal response for a gringa to say. Showing your ignorance on about Tica’s and CR society stating that any “anyone with an American passport would have women chasing them left and right.”
Since that last comment it really shows that you really lost credentials about CR.
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