What kind of job opportunities are there for MDs who just have their MD and no license/residency? I realize that practicing medicine is out of the question, what other options would one have?

Here are a few possibilities.

1. Adjunct Faculty
Search Positions - HigherEdJobs.com

2. Clinical Research Coordinator. (CRC)
Monster Jobs - Get work. Network. Build a better career. Today's the day. type in above word(s).

3. Get certified as a Surgical First Assistant and work first assisting.
American Board of Surgical Assistants
Welcome to the National Surgical Assistant Association Online
Meridian Institute of Surgical Assisting
State of Illinois licensure:
State of Illinois - Surgical Assistant

4. Challenge the Registered Nurse (R.N.) degree and work as an agency, travel nurse or first assist in surgery. Do some research on the hourly rate.
www.excelsior.edu
"Admission to our associate degree nursing programs is open to:
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses,
paramedics,
military service corpsmen,
individuals who hold degrees in clinically oriented health care fields in which they have had the opportunity to provide direct patient care (e.g., physicians, respiratory therapists, and physician assistants)."

5. A few states have licensure as a Limited Scope Radiology Practical Technician (RPT). Some states a written exam is all that is required.
List of states with RPT license
State Radiology Boards
Recommend CD with practice Q&A Limited Radiography Home Study Course
and textbooks:
Limited Radiography by Campeau ISBN 0-8273-3335-8
Amazon.com: Limited Radiography: Books: Frances Campeau,Jeana Phelps
and Bontrager's Pocket Atlas
www.bontragerspublishing.com

6. Work for an Orthopedic Physician for 5 years and challenge the Orthopedic Physician Assistant Certification OPA-C
ASOPA - American Society of Orthopaedic Physician's Assistants

7. Challenge the Medical Assistant Certification by Rutger's University
Rutgers Skill Certification Center

8. Don't give up pursuing a residency!
Association of Program Directors in Surgery Residency Positions Open
APA Online


I hope this helps.

Leadsled.

leadsled; great info and post

once upon a time I was an adjunct lecturer in human anatomy and physiology at the university level while seeking pgy training. The university experience on my CV did not hurt one bit. The rest is history

Wow, thanks for posting this!!!

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what about jobs during your 3rd and 4th year? maybe some research that pays?

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ledsled made a good post.
Who will like to add something?
For the RN I think you just need to do to the Nursing ECFMG part= is not ECFMG but is located in the same building.

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Your best friend will die, we can go to war tomorrow, don't care about those things anymore just study.

Some day I will be the next Goljan/Daugherty/fissher for IMG's all over the world.

The State of Nebraska offers a Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) license, option 3 for those that have an accredited doctoral degree with 200 class hours combined biochemistry and physiology and 75 hours human nutrition.

http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/crl/mhcs/...ion/licapp.pdf

Hey, how about truck driving. It is only two weeks of training and you get to prepare yourself to the long and excruciating hours of being a doctor.

Done that too! Just trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

I find it remarkable that so many foreign trained physicians are searching for employment outside of being a physician in the USA.

It is possible that the doctors came from countries where medicine does not pay a lot and they just decided that it is not worth it for them to go through all the trouble. Language is always the major reason.