MSF's emergency response team travelling by boat to reach a village in Johi Town that is still cut-off by the water. The MSF team has set up a mobile clinic for flood-affected communities in Johi Town, Dadu district.

Work overseas 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) relies on a network of healthcare and other professionals outside the healthcare realm. These professionals assist people facing crises by carrying out our humanitarian activities in conflict zones, epidemics, natural disasters, and other emergencies. Each year more than 30,000 locally hired staff are joined by more than 3,000 international staff to provide medical care in over 500 humanitarian projects around the world. Join us to find out what it’s like to have a career working as a humanitarian delivering critical medical assistance where it’s needed most.

At MSF, we are looking for skilled medical and non-medical professionals to help deliver emergency humanitarian assistance. We recruit from Canada and elsewhere to support our operations around the world. MSF is recruiting staff for projects located in countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Yemen. We are looking for professionals who not only align with our values and mission but who will also help shape the future of the MSF movement by speaking out about what we see, inspire action and connect people. Being part of MSF’s overseas team is much more than simply like being in a “working abroad program.”

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Working overseas FAQs

Your frequently-asked questions about our recruitment process, benefits, requirements, opportunities for students, international medical graduates, and career development are all answered here.

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An MSF team walk on foot to access a village cut off by damage caused by Cylone idai in Chimanimani.
An MSF team walk on foot to access a village cut off by damage caused by Cylone idai in Chimanimani. 2019

Recruitment info sessions

With a name like Doctors Without Borders, many people believe that our organization only hires doctors to work abroad. Our recruitment info sessions give you the opportunity to learn more about the profiles we are looking for, the recruitment process and personal experiences from our project staff.

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Seraphine is a MSF nurse who’s preparing herself together with her colleagues to go into the high risk zone of the Ebola Treatment centre (ETC). She’s from the region (North-Kivu) and has been working several years for MSF. She’s currently detached by the “Pool D’urgence de Congo” to help out in the Ebola project of Mangina. She got her first ebola experience earlier this year during the epidemic in the equator province. “During the first intervention I was really afraid to get sick (ebola),” she says. “At night I was all the time thinking about what I touched that day in the High risk zone of the ETC, worried that I might get Ebola. Now, I’m way more relaxed and I have more confidence!” As an adolescent Seraphine wasn’t too keen to become a nurse, but she did because her aunt asked her. “My aunt always complained that the people working in hospitals never smiled. That’s why she didn’t feel comfortable there. She literally asked me to become a nurse so she would encounter at least one person with a smile in the hospital. So that’s what I do now, I treat people in the best way I can, but more importantly, I also give them a big smile!”

Recruitment Zone

The Recruitment Zone helps connect professionals in Canada with opportunities to join MSF’s humanitarian medical action around the world, and to become a part of our efforts to provide essential care to people affected by crisis, conflict, disaster or neglect.

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