Paperwork is completed

Welcome to the first post of our Westport New Zealand blog. My wife Carolyn and I are Family physicians in Boulder Colorado who are in the process of preparing for 6 month Locum tenens positions in Westport with the Buller Medical center. For quite some time we have wanted to experience working in a different medical system and the timing finally seemed right. It took many months of working with the excellent staff at Global Medical, a locum tenens company that specializes in placing physicians in Australia and New Zealand, but we finally received our working visas with our passports back in the mail from the New Zealand embassy last week . The reality of our trip is clearly upon us. Our departure date is January 8th 2013. We will initially fly to Wellington where we have a meeting with the New Zealand medical Board before our licenses are completely approved. While in Wellington, we will visit with some old friends we know from Boulder

, before heading down to Westport to start work.