Ex-fighter Thiago Tavares joins UFC as ringside doctor: ‘Dream come true’

[prime_lobov]

Dr. Zabit is coming for that ringside doctor belt

 

[Pequeño Corey]

Let him practice medicine bro

 

[Necrocrawler]

Commendable and difficult to go through a foreign medical school, licensed and then moving on to getting licensed in the US. It takes years to get through all the testing and residency requirements. My father is a retired physician and can appreciate the dedication. That being said I don’t trust the greed of the medical-pharma-insurance industry here in the US, I go to my 18D medic buddy instead of an ER to do minor procedures, stitches and set broken bones, he works for booze…lol

Same thing for Brazil.
To get into brazilian university school is either very expensive on particular ones or very hard since vagues are highly competed for.
The solution people find is to do in foreign close countries like Argentina, Paraguai and Bolivia.
After you get your graduation there, you still need to do a license test to recognize your medicine certificate in Brazil, which is another very hard test to pass.
In other words... To become a doctor in Brazil, it normally takes... around 8 years to graduate + Some more years to get a specialization in some area

 

[PrideNverDies]

For being the only guy Khabib KO'd with a glass jaw I'm glad he found a good job.

 

[Benoitthegr8]

Same thing for Brazil.
To get into brazilian university school is either very expensive on particular ones or very hard since vagues are highly competed for.
The solution people find is to do in foreign close countries like Argentina, Paraguai and Bolivia.
After you get your graduation there, you still need to do a license test to recognize your medicine certificate in Brazil, which is another very hard test to pass.
In other words... To become a doctor in Brazil, it normally takes... around 8 years to graduate + Some more years to get a specialization in some area

The licencensing exams are kinda a money making sham for universities and licensing commissions here. It’s been years, it may have changed, but IIRC foreign doctors have several different certs within the licensing. You have to pay fees for each category of testing, the written exam being the final part, not to mention is where a majority of students fall short. However the amount of time you can test is limited and the certifications expires, if you fail once you can re-test again for a time period (12 months or something). There are time constraints on how long they recognize the certification for (hands on for example), if you can’t pass the written exam the second time your other certifications are considered a perishable skill and start to expire. So basically you get hit with fees for each test within the test and have to recertify parts you’ve already passed previously, obviously the fees are repaid as it’s considered a recertification, and the clock on the expiration resets, If that makes sense. Basically if you’re smart enough to pass the each certification and final exam within two tries you will have valid certification for licensing. If you fail the written test on the 2nd try you will have to start recertification from scratch. A guy I used to work with married a girl from the Philippines, she went through the entire process and failed the final written twice, she ended up in nursing.

 

[Safton]

Commendable and difficult to go through a foreign medical school, licensed and then moving on to getting licensed in the US. It takes years to get through all the testing and residency requirements. My father is a retired physician and can appreciate the dedication. That being said I don’t trust the greed of the medical-pharma-insurance industry here in the US, I go to my 18D medic buddy instead of an ER to do minor procedures, stitches and set broken bones, he works for booze…lol

18Ds are badasses. So much well-rounded medical knowledge stuffed into a single human being.

They're expected to be practitioners on a level somewhere between a critical care paramedic and a physician assistant. But they also must have competency in everything from dentistry to veterinary skills to optometry to OB/GYN to fucking animal husbandry... in addition to possessing all the combat & fieldcraft skills otherwise expected of a Special Forces Soldier.

Mad respect for them.

 

[Blastbeat]

Thiago Tavares is still doing ok in the UFC.

now he's making sure others do ok in the UFC!

 

[Benoitthegr8]

18Ds are badasses. So much well-rounded medical knowledge stuffed into a single human being.

They're expected to be practitioners on a level somewhere between a critical care paramedic and a physician assistant. But they also must have competency in everything from dentistry to veterinary skills to optometry to OB/GYN to fucking animal husbandry... in addition to possessing all the combat & fieldcraft skills otherwise expected of a Special Forces Soldier.

Mad respect for them.

I was never unrealistic about my chances of getting through the delta course or any of the SOMTB advanced medical programs. I figured that if you can train a chimp to carry heavy loads, make commo shots and tap code, it was more my speed. Although I could tell some war stories about things Ive witnessed SF guys doing that would make you laugh or mystified. Between the desert and SE Asia for the entirety of GWOT, I got to do and see some wild shit.

 

[FilipEmoFights]

Wow fucking good for him that’s awesome.
And my Grandpa was a doctor and I’m proud to talk about it

But if he was a ufc fighting doctor that would be even cooler

That being said he should fight Zhabit for best P4P MMA Doctor and also maybe he can get some guys TRT Exemptions

 

[jsbx45]

Very cool.

 

[Tapatio]

"Thank you for the opportunity, Dana. Now, I have an actual career."

- Thiago Tavares

 

[Safton]

I was never unrealistic about my chances of getting through the delta course or any of the SOMTB advanced medical programs. I figured that if you can train a chimp to carry heavy loads, make commo shots and tap code, it was more my speed. Although I could tell some war stories about things Ive witnessed SF guys doing that would make you laugh or mystified. Between the desert and SE Asia for the entirety of GWOT, I got to do and see some wild shit.

I know just a little of what you mean xD

I don't have a ton of exposure to the SFG side of the house, but my best friend -- may he rest in peace -- was with 1/75. I got to attend his RASP graduation and he even smuggled me onto the Ranger Compound at HAF one time to check out the Nightstalkers' helos, lol. Him and his buddies from Regiment were a unique and somewhat eccentric bunch, but getting to hang with them was a privilege for a dirty civvie like myself.

I ended up pursuing LE myself, but I haven't given up on the idea of the NG one day.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

Thiago Silva would be a better Doc

Not gonna lie I opened this thread thinking of this guy, but also that he doesn't seem smart enough to be a doctor.

Now I have no memory of Thiago Tavares

 

[Necrocrawler]

The licencensing exams are kinda a money making sham for universities and licensing commissions here. It’s been years, it may have changed, but IIRC foreign doctors have several different certs within the licensing. You have to pay fees for each category of testing, the written exam being the final part, not to mention is where a majority of students fall short. However the amount of time you can test is limited and the certifications expires, if you fail once you can re-test again for a time period (12 months or something). There are time constraints on how long they recognize the certification for (hands on for example), if you can’t pass the written exam the second time your other certifications are considered a perishable skill and start to expire. So basically you get hit with fees for each test within the test and have to recertify parts you’ve already passed previously, obviously the fees are repaid as it’s considered a recertification, and the clock on the expiration resets, If that makes sense. Basically if you’re smart enough to pass the each certification and final exam within two tries you will have valid certification for licensing. If you fail the written test on the 2nd try you will have to start recertification from scratch. A guy I used to work with married a girl from the Philippines, she went through the entire process and failed the final written twice, she ended up in nursing.

That's harsh...

In Brazil, when you get a specialization, at least you do it already employed, so you are actually receiving an income already at the time you get there.
The main issue is with foreign certificates, which people do due to costs/competition.
The revalidation exam is kind of money grab also, since there are only around 3 tests per year and they are hard af... Do i agree of them being hard af? Hell yeah lol, since they will deal with lives after they get a graduation.

 

[Guy LeDouche]

I was never a fan of Tavares when he fought, hell I can remember rooting against him a few times.

But stoked for the guy! That’s an awesome full circle. Went from making scratch in the UFC and getting beat up, to putting dudes back together and getting paid for it.

Good for him and love seeing guys succeed after fighting

 

[swarrrm]