Overseas experience
promise Full of Eastern
A five-year spell in China gave dentist Madeleine Murray a fascinating insight into living and working in another culture. Bruce Oxley reports…
W
ith her CV listing previous jobs in Bristol,
Newcastle, Dumfries, London, Manchester and Glasgow, Madeleine Murray is no stranger to moving from place to place in order to further her career. However, after estab- lishing herself as a specialist in restorative dentistry following years of training and experi- ence around the UK, her latest relocation was a little further a field, to say the least. The Glasgow Dental School
graduate upped sticks in 2006 with her husband and two primary school-age children to head off to the Far East to spend five years in one of the largest cities in the world – Shanghai. Madeleine’s husband Craig
worked for an American consulting firm and had long since proposed to his bosses that they should expand into the Far East. She explained: “Eventually they said, go do it.
He really wanted to do it and I was happy to have an adven- ture. The kids were young enough to take them away – Sally was seven and Anna was five. So we went.” However, despite the lure
of the adventure, Madeleine did have some reservations: “I was at a time in my life where everything had fallen into place for me with work. I had a great specialist practice job that I really enjoyed, I had just finished the law and ethics (masters degree) and had some teaching opportunities for that on the distant radar, the kids were getting bigger and starting school, and we
upped sticks and moved.” Madeleine graduated from
Glasgow in 1984 and undertook her first general duties house job in Bristol. She then moved to Newcastle and after that Dumfries, where she combined oral surgery, orthodontics and one evening a week in general practice. After sitting her Fellowship at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, she moved down to London to work at the Royal London Hospital, where she discovered her interest in periodontology. At that time, however, you
couldn’t become a mono specialist periodontist if you
wanted to work in a clinical hospital setting, so Madeleine moved back up to Glasgow to embark on her restora- tive training. She completed her specialist training in Manchester and was accepted on to the General Dental Council’s specialist register as a specialist in restorative dentistry in 1998. After completing her specialist training, Madeleine explained that she and her husband Craig decided that it was time to consolidate and move back up to one home in Scotland. They were expecting
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