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Medical school

A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, MBChB, MBBCh, BMBS), Master of Medicine (MM, MMed), Doctor of Medicine (MD), or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO). Many medical schools offer additional degrees, such as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), master's degree (MSc) or other post-secondary education.

Medical schools can also carry out medical research and operate teaching hospitals. Around the world, criteria, structure, teaching methodology, and nature of medical programs offered at medical schools vary considerably. Medical schools are often highly competitive, using standardized entrance examinations, as well as grade point averages and leadership roles, to narrow the selection criteria for candidates. In most countries, the study of medicine is completed as an undergraduate degree not requiring prerequisite undergraduate coursework. However, an increasing number of places are emerging for graduate entrants who have completed an undergraduate degree including some required courses. In the United States and Canada, almost all medical degrees are second entry degrees, and require several years of previous study at the university level.

Medical degrees are awarded to medical students after the completion of their degree program, which typically lasts five or more years for the undergraduate model and four years for the graduate model. Many modern medical schools integrate clinical education with basic sciences from the beginning of the curriculum (e.g.[1][2]). More traditional curricula are usually divided into preclinical and clinical blocks. In preclinical sciences, students study subjects such as biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, pathology, anatomy, physiology and medical microbiology, among others. Subsequent clinical rotations usually include internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology, among others.

Although medical schools confer upon graduates a medical degree, a physician typically may not legally practice medicine until licensed by the local government authority.[3] Licensing may also require passing a test, undergoing a criminal background check, checking references, paying a fee, and undergoing several years of postgraduate training. Medical schools are regulated by each country and appear in the World Directory of Medical Schools which was formed by the merger of the AVICENNA Directory for Medicine and the FAIMER International Medical Education Directory.

Africa

By 2005 there were more than 100 medical schools across Africa, most of which had been established after 1970.[4]

Egypt

Medical schools within Egypt are five-year programs. Education is conducted in English and leads to a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBCh). Graduates must finish a two-year internship program at the end of their studies to obtain their general practitioner license. Clinical training happens in each school teaching hospital with few exceptions. A small number of schools use Ministry of Health hospitals.[5]

Admission into Egyptian private and public medical schools is centrally managed by the government. After students submit their applications, they are distributed among different institutions according to both their order of preference and their high school performance.[5]

In Egypt, there are two main pathways to postgraduate studies in medicine. The academic pathway, leading to a scientific degree: either MSc. or PhD The second is the Fellowship of the Egyptian Board (FEB) program. About 20% of medical graduates pursue post-graduate studies, the rest join the healthcare workforce as general practitioners.[5]

Ghana

There are seven medical schools in Ghana: The University of Ghana Medical School in Accra, the KNUST School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi, University for Development Studies School of Medicine in Tamale, University of Cape Coast Medical School and the University of Allied Health Sciences in Ho, Volta Region, the private Accra College of Medicine,[6] and Family Health Medical School, another private medical school.[7]

Basic Medical education lasts 6 years in all medical schools. Entry into these medical schools is highly competitive and it is usually based on successful completion of the Senior High School Examinations. The University of Ghana Medical School and the University of Cape Coast have, however, introduced a graduate entry medical program to admit students with mainly science-related degrees into a 4-year medical school program (four and half years for the University of Cape Coast).

Students graduating from any of these medical schools get the MBChB degree and the title "Dr". For the first 3 years, students are awarded BSc in the field of Medical Sciences from the University of Ghana medical school; and Human biology for KNUST and UDS medical schools. The University of Ghana Medical School and KNUST School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi use a traditional medical education model whiles the University for Development Studies School of Medicine and School of Medical science of the University of Cape Coast use the problem-based learning model.

Medical graduates are then registered provisionally with the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) of Ghana as House Officers (Interns). Upon completion of the mandatory 2-year housemanship, these medical doctors are permanently registered with the MDC and can practice as medical officers (General Practitioners) anywhere in the country. The housemanship training is done only in hospitals accredited for such purposes by the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana.

Following the permanent registration with the Medical and Dental Council, doctors can specialize in any of the various fields that is organized by either the West African College of Physicians and Surgeons or the Ghana College of Physician and Surgeons.

Medical officers are also sometimes hired by the Ghana Health Service to work in the District/Rural areas as Primary Care Physicians.

Kenya

In Kenya, medical schools are faculties of a university. Medical education lasts for 6 years after which the student graduates with an undergraduate (MBChB) degree. This is followed by a mandatory 12-month full-time internship at an approved hospital after which one applies for registration with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board if they intend to practice medicine in the country. The first two years of medical school cover the basic medical (preclinical) sciences while the last four years are focused on the clinical sciences and internship.

Completion of formal specialty training in Kenya is followed by two years of supervised clinical work before one can apply for recognition as a specialist, in their respective field, by the medical board.

There are no medical school entry examinations or interviews and admission is based on the student's performance in the high school exit examination (Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - KCSE). Students who took the AS Level or the SAT can also apply but there is a very strict quota limiting the number of students that get accepted into public universities. This quota does not apply to private universities.

Nigeria

There are several medical schools in Nigeria. Entrance into these schools is highly competitive. Candidates graduating from high school must attain high scores on the West African Examination Council's (WAEC) Senior School Certificate Exam (SSCE/GCE) and high scores in five subjects (Physics, Mathematics, English, Chemistry, and Biology) in the University Matriculation Examination (UME). Students undergo rigorous training for 6 years and culminate with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MBChB). The undergraduate program is six years and one year of work experience in government hospitals. After medical school, graduates are mandated to spend one year of housemanship (internship) and one year of community service before they are eligible to be fully licensed by the Medical and Dental Council. Candidates are required to score at least 280 in the UME. Though this score may vary due to different performances per year and it also depends on the college standards.

South Africa

There are eight medical schools in South Africa, each under the auspices of a public university. As the country is a former British colony, most institutions follow the British-based undergraduate method of instruction, admitting students directly from high school into 6 or 5-year programs. Some universities such as the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have started offering post-graduate medical degrees that run concurrently with their undergraduate programs. In this instance, a student having completed an appropriate undergraduate degree with basic sciences can enter into a four-year postgraduate program.

South African medical schools award the MB ChB degree, except the University of the Witwatersrand, which styles its degree MB BCh. Some universities allow students to earn an intercalated degree, completing a BSc (Medical) with an additional year of study after the second or third year of the MBChB. The University of Cape Town, in particular, has spearheaded a recent effort to increase the level of medical research training and exposure of medical students through an Intercalated Honours Programme, with the option to extend this to a PhD.[8]

Following successful completion of study, all South African medical graduates must complete a two-year internship as well as a further year of community service in order to register with the Health Professions Council and practice as a doctor in the country.

Specialisation is usually a five- to seven-year training process (depending on the specialty) requiring registering as a medical registrar attached to an academic clinical department in a large teaching hospital with appropriate examinations. The specialist qualification may be conferred as a Fellowship by the independent Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA), following British tradition, or as a Magisterial degree by the university (usually the M Med, Master of Medicine, degree). The Medical schools and the CMSA also offer Higher Diplomas in many fields. Research degrees are the MMed and PhD or MD, depending on the university.

Medical students from all over the world come to South Africa to gain practical experience in the country's many teaching hospitals and rural clinics. The language of instruction is English but a few indigenous languages are studied briefly. The University of the Free State has a parallel medium policy, meaning all English classes are also presented in Afrikaans, therefore students who choose to study in Afrikaans, do so separately from the English class.

Sudan

In Sudan, a medical school is a faculty of a university. Medical school is usually 5–6 years, and by the end of the 5–6 years, the students acquire a bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery. Post graduating there is a mandatory one-year full-time internship at one of the universities or Government Teaching hospitals in the four major Specialty in 3 months rotation, then a license is issued after a written exam conducted by the Sudan medical council (SMC).

During the first 3–4 years the curriculum is completed, and throughout the next 2 years it is repeated with clinical training. Students with high grades in high school are accepted for free in Government Universities. Private faculty accept low grades than governmental faculty but their grades still high. Students who take foreign examinations other than the Sudanese High School Examination are also accepted in Universities, students taking IGCSE/SATs and other Arabian countries. All medical students who want to be enrolled in an internship program should undergo registration under the Sudanese Medical Council. Postgraduate training is conducted by Sudan medical specialisation board (SMSB) and the degree obtained is medical doctor (MD). The duration of training varies from 4–6 years depend on the scientific Council of the specific speciality.

Tanzania

In Tanzania, medical school is a school within a university or can be an independent university dealing with health related courses only affiliated with a large sized hospital. Medical education lasts for 5 years after which the student graduates with an undergraduate (MD) degree. This is followed by a mandatory 12-month full-time internship at an approved hospital after which one applies for registration with the Medical Council of Tanzania (MCT) if they intend to practice medicine in the country. The first two years of medical school cover the Bio medical sciences or simply basic (pre-clinical) sciences while the last three years are focused on the clinical sciences.[citation needed]

There are no medical school entry examinations or interviews and admission is based on students' performance in the high school exit examination (Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination - ACSEE). Alternatively are student who took diploma in clinical medicine with an average of G.P.A 3.5 distinction who have very few seats.[citation needed]

Tunisia

In Tunisia, education is free for all Tunisian citizens and for foreigners who have scholarships. The oldest Medical school is the Medicine School of Tunis. There are four medicine faculties situated in the major cities of Tunis, Sfax, Sousse and Monastir. Admission is bound to the success and score in the Tunisian Baccalaureate examination. Admission score threshold is very high, based on competition among all applicants throughout the nation. Medical school curriculum consists of seven years; five years as an 'extern' and two years of internship or 'intern trainee' :[9]

  • Two years are medical theory, containing all basic sciences related to medicine. The curriculum is more focused on theoretical than on practical learning.
  • Three years during which the student receives both theoretical and practical training with total immersion in the hospital environment, it consists of clinical issues related to all medical specialties. During these three years, the student has to attend at the university hospital every day, rotating around all wards. Every period is followed by a clinical exam regarding the student's knowledge in that particular specialty.
  • Two years on internship, in which the student is a physician but under the supervision of the chief doctor; the student rotates over the major and most essential specialties during period of four months each. After that, student has the choice of either passing the residency national exam or extending his internship for another year, after which he gains the status of family physician.[10][11] The residency program consists of four to five years in the specialty he qualifies, depending on his score in the national residency examination under the rule of highest score chooses first. Whether the student chooses to be a family doctor or a specialist, he has to make a doctorate thesis, which he will be defending in front of a jury, after which he gains his degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD).

In contrast, studies in dental medicine (general practitioner) and pharmaceutical studies last only 6 years. Courses throughout the university curriculum in both medicine and pharmacy are taught in French.

There are four universities of general medicine: the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, the Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, the Faculty of Medicine of Monastir and the Faculty of Medicine of Sfax.

On the other hand, there is only one university of dentistry and pharmacy in Monastir: the faculty of dentistry of Monastir[12] and the faculty of pharmacy of Monastir.[13]

Uganda

As of April 2017, there are nine accredited medical schools in Uganda.[14] Training leading to the award of the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) lasts five years, if there are no re-takes. After graduating, a year of internship in a hospital designated for that purpose, under the supervision of a specialist in that discipline is required before an unrestricted license to practice medicine and surgery is granted by the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC).

There is Postgraduate training such as the degree of Master of Medicine (MMed) which is a three-year programme, available at Makerere University School of Medicine in several disciplines. Makerere University School of Public Health, offers the degree of Master of Public Health (MPH) following a 22-month period of study, which includes field work.[15]

Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe there are three medical schools is offering Medical degrees. For undergrads, these are University of Zimbabwe - College of Health Sciences {MBChB}, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Medical school {MBBS} and Midlands State University (MSU) {MBChB}. Only UZ is offering postgrad degrees in the Medical faculty.

Training lasts 5+12 years. The curriculum is as follows:

  • Part 1 (1 year) – Biochemistry, Communication Skills for Academic Purposes, Anatomy, Physiology and Behavioral Sciences. Professional exams are written in the first two and failure to attain a pass in Biochemistry warranties a repeat of first year.
  • Part 2 (1 year) – Communication Skills for Professional Purposes, Anatomy, Physiology, Behavioral Sciences. Professional exams are written at the end of second year and failure to attain a passmark in any of the last three courses on the list warranties a repeat of the year. Communication Skills can be carried to the next year, but the student should pass the course before graduation.
  • Part 3 (1.5 years) – Pathology (Histopathology), Medical Microbiology, Chemical Pathology, Hematology, Forensic Pathology, Immunology and Toxicology. A professional exam is written at the end of the third year and the student has to pass to proceed. There are also surgery and medicine rotations during the year. Also, the students cover most of the basic Pharmacology during the third stage of the degrees.
  • Part 4 (1 year) – Community Medicine, Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology
  • Part 5 (1 year) – Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics

Internship is 2 years duration, with the first year spent in medicine and surgery and the second year doing pediatrics, anesthesia/psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology. Thereafter one can apply for MMED at the university which last 4–5 years depending on specialty. Currently no subspecialist education is available.

Americas

North America

Canada

In 2013, the Association of American Medical Colleges lists 17 accredited MD-granting medical schools in Canada.

In Canada, a medical school is a faculty or school of a university that offers a three- or four-year Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Generally, medical students begin their studies after receiving a bachelor's degree in another field, often one of the biological sciences. However, admittance can still be granted during the third and fourth year. Minimum requirements for admission vary by region from two to four years of post-secondary study. The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada publishes a detailed guide to admission requirements of Canadian faculties of medicine on a yearly basis.

Admission offers are made by individual medical schools, generally on the basis of a personal statement, undergraduate record (GPA), scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), and interviews. Volunteer work is often an important criterion considered by admission committees. All four medical schools in Quebec and two Ontario schools (the University of Ottawa, Northern Ontario School of Medicine) do not require the MCAT. McMaster requires that the MCAT be written, though they only look for particular scores (6 or better) on the verbal reasoning portion of the test.

The first half of the medical curriculum is dedicated mostly to teaching the basic sciences relevant to medicine. Teaching methods can include traditional lectures, problem-based learning, laboratory sessions, simulated patient sessions, and limited clinical experiences. The remainder of medical school is spent in clerkship. Clinical clerks participate in the day-to-day management of patients. They are supervised and taught during this clinical experience by residents and fully licensed staff physicians.

Students enter into the Canadian Resident Matching Service, commonly abbreviated as CaRMS in the fall of their final year. Students rank their preferences of hospitals and specialties. A computerized matching system determines placement for residency positions. 'Match Day' usually occurs in March, a few months before graduation.[16] The length of post-graduate training varies with choice of specialty.

 
Toronto Faculty of Medicine

During the final year of medical school, students complete part 1 of the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE). Upon completion of the final year of medical school, students are awarded the degree of MD Students then begin training in the residency program designated to them by CaRMS. Part 2 of the MCCQE, an Objective Structured Clinical Examination, is taken following the completion of twelve months of residency training. After both parts of the MCCQE are successfully completed, the resident becomes a Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada.[17] However, in order to practice independently, the resident must complete the residency program and take a board examination pertinent to his or her intended scope of practice. In the final year of residency training, residents take an exam administered by either the College of Family Physicians of Canada or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, depending on whether they are seeking certification in family medicine or another specialty.

El Salvador

 
Main building of School of Medicine of the University of El Salvador.

La Universidad de El Salvador (University of El Salvador) has a program of 8 years for students who want to study medicine. The first six years are organized in a two semesters fashion, the seventh year is used for a rotating internship through the major specialty areas in a 10-week periods fashion (psychiatry and public health share a period) and the eighth year is designated for Social service in locations approved by the Ministry of Health (usually as attending physician in Community Health Centers or non-profit organizations). The graduates receive the degree of MD and must register in the Public Health Superior Council to get the medical license and a registered national number that allows them to prescribe barbiturates and other controlled drugs. In order to attend further studies (Surgery, Internal medicine, G/OB, Pediatrics, Psychiatry), students in the year of Social service or graduates of any Salvadorian university must apply independently for the residency at the hospital of choice; the preliminary selection process is based on the results of clinical knowledge tests, followed by psychiatric evaluations and interviews with the hospital medical and administrative staff. The basic residencies mentioned above commonly last 3 years; at the last trimester of the third year, the residents can apply to the position of Chief of residents (1 year) or follow further studies as residents (3 years) of a specialty (for example orthopedic surgery, urology, neurology, endocrinology...). No further studies are offered to date; therefore, specialists looking for training or practice in a specific area (For example a neurosurgeon looking for a specialty in endovascular neurosurgery, spine surgery or pediatric neurosurgery) must attend studies in other countries and apply for such positions independently.[citation needed]

 
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, or the Faculty of Health Sciences, the medical school at the Latin University of Panama in Panama City

Panama

The system of Medical education in Panama usually takes students from high school directly into Medical School for a 6-year course, typically with a two-year internship.[citation needed]

In order to practice medicine in the Republic, or enter a residency program in Panama it is required to be a Panamanian citizen.[citation needed] Other requirements include:

  • First year rotatory Internship: Qualified medical practitioners must successfully undertake and complete one year of supervised practice, generally known as an internship. The internship is undertaken in hospital positions accredited for this purpose.
  • 2 year rural Internship: Upon successful conclusion of the first intern year, doctors are required to undertake and complete a second year of internship at an assigned government health institution. Once this requirement is fulfilled the medical practitioners qualify for full registration in the Medical Board and are licensed to engage in independent medical practice in Panama.

United States

In 2019, the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine listed 154 accredited MD-granting[18] and 36 accredited DO-granting medical schools[19] in the United States.

 
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and the largest hospital in the United States, with 1,547 beds[20]

There are two doctorate-level degrees conferred onto physicians in training in the United States, Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).[21] Both entitle the awardee to train for and receive medical licensing through an accredited residency training program.[22]

Admission to medical school in the United States is based mainly on a GPA, MCAT score, admissions essay, interview, clinical work experience, and volunteering activities, along with research and leadership roles in an applicant's history. While obtaining an undergraduate degree is not an explicit requirement for a few medical schools, virtually all admitted students have earned at least a bachelor's degree. A few medical schools offer pre-admittance to students directly from high school by linking a joint 3-year accelerated undergraduate degree and a standard 4-year medical degree with certain undergraduate universities, sometimes referred to as a "7-year program", where the student receives a bachelor's degree after their first year in medical school.

As undergraduates, students must complete a series of prerequisites, consisting of biology, physics, and chemistry (general chemistry and organic chemistry). Many medical schools have additional requirements including calculus, genetics, statistics, biochemistry, English, and/or humanities classes. In addition to meeting the pre-medical requirements, medical school applicants must take and report their scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a standardized test that measures a student's knowledge of the sciences and the English language. Some students apply for medical school following their third year of undergraduate education while others pursue advanced degrees or other careers before applying.

In the nineteenth century, there were over 400 medical schools in the United States. By 1910, the number was reduced to 148 medical schools and by 1930 the number totaled only 76. Many early medical schools were criticized for not sufficiently preparing their students for medical professions, leading to the creation of the American Medical Association in 1847 for the purpose of self-regulation of the profession. Abraham Flexner (who in 1910 released the Flexner report with the Carnegie Foundation), the Rockefeller Foundation, and the AMA are credited with laying the groundwork for what is now known as the modern medical curriculum.[23]

The standard U.S. medical school curriculum is four years long. Traditionally, the first two years are composed mainly of classroom basic science education, while the final two years primarily include rotations in clinical settings where students learn patient care firsthand. Today, clinical education is spread across all four years with the final year containing the most clinical rotation time. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published mandatory rules, obliging all inpatient and outpatient teaching settings, laying down the guidelines for what medical students in the United States may do, if they have not completed a clerkship or sub-internship. These rules apply when they are in the clinical setting in school, not when they are, for example, helping staff events or in other non-formal educational settings, even if they are helping provide certain clinical services along with nurses and the supervising physicians- for example, certain basic screening procedures. In the formal clinical setting in school, they can only assist with certain patient evaluation and management tasks, after the vital signs, chief complaint and the history of present illness have been discerned, but prior to the physical examination: reviewing the patient's signs and symptoms in each body system, and then reviewing the patient's personal medical, genetic, family, educational/occupational, and psychosocial history. The student's supervising physician (or another physician with supervisory privileges if the original doctor is no longer available, for some reason) must be in the room during the student's work and must conduct this same assessment of the patient before performing the actual physical examination, and after finishing and conferring with the student, will review his or her notes and opinion, editing or correcting them if necessary, and will also have his or her own professional notes; both must then sign and date and ID the student's notes and the medical record. They may observe, but not perform, physical examinations, surgeries, endoscopic or laparoscopic procedures, radiological or nuclear medicine procedures, oncology sessions, and obstetrics. The patient must give consent for their presence and participation in his or her care, even at a teaching facility. Depending on the time they have completed in school, their familiarity with the area of medicine and the procedure, and the presence of their supervisor, and any others needed, in the room or nearby, they may be allowed to conduct certain very minor tests associated with the physical examination, such as simple venipuncture blood draws, and electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms, for learning and experience purposes, especially when there is no intern or resident available.

Upon successful completion of medical school, students are granted the title of Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO). Residency training, which is a supervised training period of three to seven years (usually incorporating the first-year internship) typically completed for specific areas of specialty. Physicians who sub-specialize or who desire more supervised experience may complete a fellowship, which is an additional one to four years of supervised training in their area of expertise.

Upon completion of medical school in the United States, students transition into residency programs through the National Resident Match Program. Each year, approximately 20,000 MD seniors and 7,000 DO seniors from American medical schools participate in the residency match.[24] An additional 21,000 independent applicants (all applicant categories excluding U.S. MD and DO seniors:[25][26] previous graduates of an LCME-accredited medical school, previous graduates of a COCA-accredited medical school, students/graduates of a Canadian medical school students/graduates of a Fifth Pathway program, students/graduates of an international medical school) compete for the approximately 38,000 available residency positions.[24]

For the class of 2009, the average debt of a medical student is $157,990 and 25.1% of students had debt in excess of $200,000 (prior to residency).[27] For the past decade the cost of attendance has increased 5–6% each year (roughly 1.6 to 2.1 times inflation).[citation needed][28]

According to the 2022 Medscape Physician Compensation Report, physicians on average earn $339,000 annually.[29] Primary care physicians earn an average of $260,000 annually, with family medicine physicians earning $255,000 and internists averaging $264,000. Specialists earned an average of $368,000, annually, with dermatologists earning $438,000 annually and neurosurgeons having an average of $773,201.[30][31]

Licensing of medical doctors in the United States is coordinated at the state level. Most states require that prospective licensees complete the following requirements:[citation needed]

Caribbean

In 2011, the International Medical Education Directory listed 59 current medical schools in the Caribbean. 54 grant the MD degree, 3 grant the MBBS degree, and 2 grant either the MD or MBBS degree.

30 of the medical schools in the Caribbean are regional, which train students to practice in the country or region where the school is located. The remaining 29 Caribbean medical schools are known as offshore schools, which primarily train students from the United States and Canada who intend to return home for residency and clinical practice after graduation.[33] At most offshore schools, basic sciences are completed in the Caribbean while clinical clerkships are completed at teaching hospitals in the United States.

Several agencies may also accredit Caribbean medical schools, as listed in the FAIMER Directory of Organizations that Recognize/Accredit Medical Schools (DORA). 25 of the 29 regional medical schools in the Caribbean are accredited, while 14 of the 30 offshore medical schools are accredited.

Haiti

Medical schools in Haiti conduct training in French. The universities offering medical training in Haiti are the Université Notre Dame d'Haïti, Université Quisqueya, Université d'Etat d'Haïti and Université Lumière.

The Université Notre Dame d'Haïti (UNDH) is a private Catholic university established by the Episcopal Conference of Haiti. According to the UNDH website, "the UNDH is not just about academic degrees, it is mainly the formation of a new type of Haiti, which includes in its culture and moral values of the Gospel, essential for serious and honest people that the country needs today."

The other two private schools offering medical degrees are Université Quisqueya and Université Lumière. The Université d'Etat d'Haïti is a public school.[34]

Attending medical school in Haiti may be less expensive than attending medical universities located in other parts of the world, but the impact of the country's political unrest should be considered, as it affects the safety of both visitors and Haitians.[editorializing]

Duration of basic medical degree course, including practical training: 6 years

Title of degree awarded: Docteur en Médecine (Doctor of Medicine)

Medical registration/license to practice: Registration is obligatory with the Ministère de la Santé publique et de la Population, Palais des Ministères, Port-au-Prince. The license to practice medicine is granted to medical graduates who have completed 1 year of social service. Those who have qualified abroad must have their degree validated by the Faculty of Medicine in Haiti. Foreigners require special authorization to practice.

Curaçao

As of 2021, Curaçao has five medical schools registered in the World Directory of Medical Schools: Avalon University School of Medicine,[35] Caribbean Medical University School of Medicine,[36]John F. Kennedy University School of Medicine,[37] New York Medical University School of Medicine[38] and St. Martinus University Faculty of Medicine.[39] All are located within the city of Willemstad.[35][37][36][38][39] These schools provide education in Basic Medical Science (BMS) which goes towards the degree of Medical Doctor or Doctor of Medicine. Presently, none of the medical schools offer other degrees, such as MBBS or PhD (2016).[35][37][36][38][39] All students after completing their medical school's Basic Medical Science program in Curaçao; will then have to apply to either take USMLE Step Exams, the Canadian or British Board Exams.[citation needed]

Dominican Republic

 
Centro Hospitalario at the Eastern Central University in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic.

Medical studies in the Dominican Republic start after graduation from high school. The programs typically take around 6 years to complete and are generally in Spanish with a few U.S.-style 4-year programs in English geared to American students (e.g. UNIBE).[citation needed] Programs are typically divided into pre-medicine, basic sciences and clinical sciences (also called pre-internship).[40][41][42][43] At the end of the pre-internship period the aspiring doctors need to complete a 1-year compulsory internship in a Dominican hospital to obtain their medical license.[44]

South America

Argentina

In 1821 the first school of medicine was formed in the capital city Buenos Aires, where the bulk of the medical schools are located.[45][46] As of 2006, there were 29 medical schools in Argentina.[45] Medical degree programs in Argentina typically are six years long,[45] with some universities opting for 7 year programs.[46] The six years usually consist of 3 years of basic sciences, 2 years of clinical sciences, and one internship year (in Spanish "internado anual rotatorio"). The internship is completed in a Hospital associated with the university.[47][45] In some provinces (especially round the more developed South) there are government-funded hospitals who pay for the internship[citation needed]. Some universities have cultural exchange programmes that allow a medical student in their final year to serve their community time overseas.[48]

 
Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Buenos Aires

In Argentina, there are public and private medical schools.[45] By law entrance into public institutions is open and tuition-free to all who have a high school diploma, and universities are expressly forbidden[49] from restricting access with difficult entrance exams. Point in case, in 2016 the National University of La Plata was forced by governing bodies to stop forcing its students to write an entrance exam. As a result, that university experienced a major increase in the size of its student population. Another consequence is that schools have a high drop-out rate during the first years[45] that approach 90%. When it comes to educational quality, the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Medical Sciences, a public university, is widely recognised as the top medical school in the country.[50]

Upon graduation, one of the following degrees is obtained, according to the university: Doctor of Medicine, or both Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Surgery. Public universities usually confer both degrees, and private universities bestow only a Doctor of Medicine. In daily practice, however, there is no substantial difference between what a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Surgery are allowed to do. When the degree is obtained, a record is created for that new doctor in the index of the National Ministry of Education (Ministerio Nacional de Educación), and the physician is given their corresponding medical practitioner's ID, which is a number that identifies him and his academic achievements. In addition, there is a provincial ID, i.e. a number to identify doctors in the province they practice medicine in.[citation needed] Completion of a residency program is not required for medical licensing.[45]

There is no central system for applying for medical residency. Doctors wishing to pursue a specialty must take rigorous entrance exams at the public/private institution of their choice that offers them. Programs admit approximately half of each year's graduates after a lengthy selection process.[45] Most specialty courses last four years, depending on the branch of medicine the physician has chosen.[45][47]

Bolivia

In Bolivia, all medical schools are Faculties within a university and follow the European model[which?] of a six-year curriculum (9 000 ECTS or more) divided into three cycles. The first two years are called the biomedical or pre-clinical cycle. During this time students are instructed in the basic sciences (anatomy, anthropology, biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, embryology, histology, physiology, pharmacology, biostatistics, etc.). The next three years are the clinical cycle and consist of medical specialties instruction at the faculty and hospital practice. The last year consists of an internship for 3 months each of surgery, internal medicine, gynecology and pediatrics. To acquire the license from the government to practice medicine, at the end of the internship an Honorary Mandatory Socialist Service (SSSRO) must be done in a rural area of the country for at least three months.[citation needed]

After getting the degree and license as "Graduate of Medicine and Surgery" or Médico Cirujano (MC) may take a post-graduate residency from 3 to 6 years in order to acquire a specialty.[citation needed]

Brazil

The Brazilian medical schools follow the European model[which?] of a six-year curriculum, divided into three cycles of two years each.[51] The first two years are called basic cycle (ciclo básico). During this time students are instructed in the basic sciences (anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, immunology, etc.) with activities integrated with the medical specialties, allowing the student an overview of the practical application of such content. After its completion, the students advance to the clinical cycle (ciclo clinico). At this stage contact with patients intensify and work with tests and diagnostics, putting into practice what was learned in the first two years. The last two are called internships (internato). In this last step, the students focus on clinical practice, through training in teaching hospitals and clinics. The teaching of this last step reflects an axis of increasing complexity, enabling students to make decisions and participate effectively in form and operative care under the direct supervision of faculty and qualified to act as teaching aids physicians.

 
Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo

After six years of training, students graduate and are awarded the title of physician (Médico) allowing them to register with the Regional Council of Medicine (Conselho Regional de Medicina). The recent graduate will be able to exercise the medical profession as a general practitioner and may apply to undertake postgraduate training. In 2012, the Regional Council of Medicine of São Paulo (Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado de São Paulo) established that physicians who graduate this year must pass a test to obtain professional registration. Passing the exam, however, is not linked to obtaining registration. It required only the presence of the candidate and the test performance. Already at the national level, there is a pending Senate bill creating the National Proficiency Examination in Medicine (Exame Nacional de Proficiência em Medicina), which would make the race a prerequisite for the exercise of the profession.

 
The Dr. Guillermo Grant Benavente Regional Clinical Hospital at the University of Concepción in Chile.

Physicians who want to join a specialization program must undergo a new selection examination considered as competitive as that required to join a medical school. The specialization programs are divided into two categories: direct access and prerequisite. The specialties with direct access are those in which the doctor can enroll without having any prior expertise. Any physician can apply to examinations for these specialties, regardless of the time of training or prior experience. To apply to proprietary pre-requisite, the doctor should have already completed a specialty prior. The programs may range from 2 to 6 years. Brazil currently recognizes by the Federal Council of Medicine, the Brazilian Medical Association and the National Commission of Medical Residency 53 residency programs. Fully complied with, gives the title of a resident physician specialist.

Chile

In Chile, there are 21 medical schools. Principal medical schools are Universidad de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Concepción, Universidad de Valparaíso and Universidad de Santiago de Chile. The pre-grade studies are distributed over 7 years, where the last 2 are the internship, which include at least surgery, internal medicine, gynecology and pediatrics. After getting the degree of Licenciate in Medicine (General Medicine) the MD must pass a medicine knowledge exam called the Unique National Exam of Medical Knowledge (EUNACOM "Examen Único Nacional de Conocimientos de Medicina" in Spanish) and can take a direct specialty or work before in primary attention in order to gain access to a residency.[52]

Colombia

In Colombia, there are 50 medical schools listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools, 27 of which have active programs and are currently registered and accredited as high-quality programs by the Colombian Ministry of Education.[citation needed] The main medical programs are offered by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad El Bosque, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Valle, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad de Santander, Universidad del Norte and Universidad de la Sabana. Most programs require 6–7 years of study, and all offer a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. In some cases, the school also allows for a second degree to be studied for at the same time (this is chosen by the student, though most students end up needing to do alternate semesters between their degrees, and mostly in careers like microbiology or biomedical engineering). For example, the Universidad de los Andes has a program whereby the medical student could graduate with both an MD and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree or an MD and a master's degree in public health. Admission to medical school varies with the school but is usually dependent on a combination of a general application to the university, an entrance exam, a personal statement or interview, and secondary (high) school performance mostly as reflected on the ICFES score (the grade received on the state exam in the final year of secondary/high school).[citation needed]

 
The National University of Colombia College of Medicine in Bogotá.

In most medical programs, the first two years deal with basic scientific courses (cellular and molecular biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, mathematics, and physics), and the core medical sciences (anatomy, embryology, histology, physiology, and biochemistry). The following year may change in how it is organized in different schools but is usually organ system-based pathophysiology and therapeutics (general and systems pathology, pharmacology, microbiology, parasitology, immunology, and medical genetics are also taught in this block). In the first two years, the programs also usually begin the courses in the epidemiology track (which may or may not include biostatistics), a clinical skills track (semiology and the clinical examination), a social medicine/public health track, and a medical ethics and communication skills track. Modes of training vary but are usually based on lectures, simulations, standardized-patient sessions, problem-based learning sessions, seminars, and observational clinical experiences. By year three, most schools have begun the non-elective, clinical-rotation block with accompanying academic courses (these include but are not limited to internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, anaesthesiology, orthopaedics, gynaecology and obstetrics, emergency medicine, neurology, psychiatry, oncology, urology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology). Elective rotations are usually introduced in the fourth or fifth year, though as in the case of the non-elective rotations, the hospitals the medical students may be placed in or apply to for a given rotation depend entirely on the medical schools. This is important in terms of medical training, given the particular distinction of patients, pathologies, procedures, and skills seen and learned in private vs. public hospitals in Colombia. Most schools, however, have placements in both types of hospitals for many specialties.

The final year of medical school in Colombia is referred to as the internship year ("internado"). The internship year is usually divided into two semesters. The first semester is made up of obligatory rotations that every student does though in different orders, and the medical intern serves in 5–7 different specialties, typically including internal medicine, paediatrics, general surgery, anaesthesiology, orthopaedics, gynaecology and obstetrics, and emergency medicine. The extent of the responsibilities of the intern varies with the hospital, as does the level of supervision and teaching, but generally, medical interns in Colombia extensively take, write, and review clinical histories, answer and discuss referrals with their seniors, do daily progress notes for the patients under their charge, participate in the service rounds, present and discuss patients at rounds, serve shifts, assist in surgical procedures, and assist in general administrative tasks. Sometimes, they are charged with ordering diagnostic testing, but, under Colombian law, they cannot prescribe medication as they are not graduate physicians. This, of course, are to be completed in addition to their academic responsibilities. The second semester is made up of elective rotations, which can be at home or abroad, in the form of clerkships or observerships. A final graduation requirement is to sit a standardized exam, the State Exam for Quality in Higher Education ("Examen de Estado de Calidad de la Educación Superior" or ECAES, also known as SABER PRO) specific to medicine, which tests, for example, knowledge in public health and primary care.[citation needed]

After graduation, the physician is required to register with the Colombian Ministry of Health, in order to complete a year of obligatory social service ("servicio social obligatorio"),[53] after which they qualify for a professional license to practice general medicine and apply for a medical residency within Colombia. If, however, the student wishes to practice general medicine abroad or continue onto their postgraduate studies, for example, they can independently begin the appropriate application/equivalency process, without doing their obligatory social service. In this case, they would not be licensed to practise medicine in Colombia and if they wish to do so, will have to register with the Ministry of Health. N.B. If the graduate physician gets accepted immediately into a residency within Colombia in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, general surgery or anaesthesiology, they are allowed to complete a 6-month-long social service after their residency.

In contrast with most countries, residencies in Colombia are not paid positions, since one applies for the program through the university offering the post, which requires a tuition. However, on 9 May 2017, legislation was formally introduced in Congress that would seek to regulate payment for medical residents, regulate their tuitions, and advocate for their vacation time and working hours.[citation needed]As in other countries, the length of residency training depends upon the specialty chosen, and, following its completion, the physician may choose to apply for a fellowship (subspecialty) at home or abroad depending on the availability of their desired training programs, or practice in their specialty.

Guyana

In Guyana, the medical school is accredited by the National Accreditation Council of Guyana. The medical program ranges from 4 years to 6 years. Students are taught the basic sciences aspect of the program within the first 2 years of medical school. In the clinical sciences program, students are introduced to the hospital setting where they gain hands-on training from the qualifying physicians and staff at the various teaching hospitals across Guyana.

Students graduating from the University of Guyana are not required to sit for board exams before practicing medicine in Guyana. Students graduating from the American International School of Medicine sit the USMLE, PLAB or CAMC exams.

Uruguay

The University of Montevideo in Uruguay is the oldest in Latin America[citation needed], being public and free, co-governed by students, graduates and teachers. The progress of medical and biological sciences in the nineteenth century, the impact of the work of Claude Bernard (1813–1878), Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) Robert Koch (1843–1910), Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) and all the splendor of French medical schools, Vienna, Berlin and Edinburgh, was a stimulus for the creation of a medical school in the country.[citation needed] The basic medical school program lasts seven years. There is also a second medical school in the country, Universidad CLAEH (Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana), which is located in Punta del Este, Maldonado.

Venezuela

These are the universities with a medical school in Venezuela:[citation needed]

Asia and Oceania

Australia

Historically, Australian medical schools have followed the British tradition by conferring the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) to its graduates whilst reserving the title of Doctor of Medicine (MD) for their research training degree, analogous to the PhD, or for their honorary doctorates. Although the majority of Australian MBBS degrees have been graduate programs since the 1990s, under the previous Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) they remained categorised as Level 7 Bachelor degrees together with other undergraduate programs.

The latest version of the AQF includes the new category of Level 9 Master's (Extended) degrees which permits the use of the term 'Doctor' in the styling of the degree title of relevant professional programs. As a result, various Australian medical schools have replaced their MBBS degrees with the MD to resolve the previous anomalous nomenclature.[54] With the introduction of the Master's level MD, universities have also renamed their previous medical research doctorates. The University of Melbourne was the first to introduce the MD in 2011 as a basic medical degree, and has renamed its research degree to Doctor of Medical Science (DMedSc).[55]

Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, admission to medical colleges is organized by the Governing Body of University of Dhaka. A single admission test is held for government and private colleges. Due to the highly competitive nature of these exams, the total number of applicants across the country is around 78 times the number of students accepted.[citation needed] Admission is based on the entrance examination, as well as students' individual academic records.[citation needed]

The entrance examination consists carries a time limit of one hour. 100 marks are allocated based on objective questions, in which the mark allocation is distributed between a variety of subjects. Biology questions carry 30 marks, Chemistry carries 25, Physics carries 20, English carries 15, and general knowledge carries 10.

Additionally, students' previous SSC (Secondary School Certificate) scores carry up to 75 and HSC (Higher Secondary School Certificate) scores carry up to 125 marks towards the overall examination result.

English students prepare themselves for the admission exam ahead of time. This is because as the GCSE and A-Level exams do not cover parts of the Bangladesh syllabus.[citation needed]

The undergraduate program consists of five years study, followed by a one-year internship. The degrees granted are Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). Further postgraduate qualifications may be obtained in the form of Diplomas or Degrees (MS or MD), MPhil and FCPS (Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons).

The University of Dhaka launched[when?] a new BSc in "Radiology and Imaging Technology," offering 30 students the opportunity to contribute towards their entrance exam grade. For students who have passed the HSC, this course contributes towards 25% of the mark. The course contributes up to 75% for Diploma-holding students. The duration of the course is four years (plus 12 weeks for project submission). The course covers a variety of topics, including behavioural science, radiological ethics, imaging physics and general procedure.

Cambodia

After 6 years of general medical education (a foundation year + 5 years), all students will graduate with Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedSc) បរិញ្ញាប័ត្រ វិទ្យាសាស្រ្តវេជ្ជសាស្ត្រ. This degree does not allow graduates to work independently as Physician, but it is possible for those who wish to continue to master's degrees in other fields relating to medical sciences such as Public Health, Epidemiology, Biomedical Science, Nutrition...

Medical graduates, who wish to be fully qualified as physicians or specialists must follow the rule as below:

  • General Practitioner's (GP) course is 8 years (BMedSc + 2-year internship). Clinical rotation in the internship is modulated within 4 main disciplines (general medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics). The medical degree awarded is Doctor of Medicine (MD) សញ្ញាប័ត្រ វេជ្ជបណ្ឌិត, equivalent to a master's degree.
  • After graduating with BMedSc; any students, who wishes to enter Residency Training Programs, are required to sit for a rigorous and Entrance Exam. The duration of residency programs lasts from 3 to 4 years after BMedSc (BMedSc + 3–4 years of specialization). Once the graduates, after successful defense of their practicum thesis, are officially awarded the Degree of Specialized Doctor (MD-with specialization) សញ្ញាប័ត្រវេជ្ជបណ្ឌិតឯកទេស "Professional Doctorate".

All Medical graduates must complete Thesis Defense and pass the National Exit Exam ប្រឡងចេញថ្នាក់ជាតិក្នុងវិស័យសុខាភិបាល to become either GPs or Medical or Surgical Specialists.

China

Medical education is normally a five-year Bachelor degree, including a one-year internship (or clinical rotation, during which students are actively involved in patient care) before the final degree is awarded. Although some medical schools run three-year programs, hospitals tend to recruit physicians who have graduated from five-year programs. Students who graduate from medical school must work 1–3 years in a university-affiliated hospital, after which the student is eligible to take the National Medical Licensing Examination (NMLE) for physician certification, which is conducted by the National Medical Examination Center (NMEC). Candidates who pass are certified as physicians by the Ministry of Health.[56] Clinical specialization usually involves a two-or three-year Master degree. Acceptance is based on the national entrance examination used for all universities. In all over China, the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Degree courses have been always taught in Chinese medium. There are a few colleges that teach in English and accept foreign medical students. Some of those universities have increased their course duration to 6 years. The degree conferred is known as Bachelor of Clinical Medicine (BCM).

Hong Kong

 
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine held by HKU is among the oldest western medicine schools in Far East.

Hong Kong has two comprehensive medical faculties, the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and they are also the sole two institutes offering medical and pharmacy programs. Other healthcare discipline programs (like nursing) are dispersed among some other universities which do not host a medical faculty.

Prospective medical students enter either faculty of Medicine available from high schools. The medical program consists of 5 years for those who take the traditional Hong Kong's Advanced Level Examination (HKALE) for admission, or 6 years for those who take the new syllabus Hong Kong's Diploma of Secondary School Education Examination (HKDSE). International students who take examinations other the two mentioned will be assessed by the schools to decide if they will take the 5-year program or the 6-year one.

The competition of entering the medical undergraduate programs is intense as the number of intakes each year is very limited: in 2019, the quota is 265 from each school (530 in total),[57][58] hence candidates need to attain an excellent examination result and good performance in interviews. The schools put a great emphasis on students' languages (both Chinese and English) and communication skills as they need to communicate with other health care professionals and patients or their families in the future.

During their studies at the medical schools, students need to accumulate enough clinical practicing hours in addition before their graduation.

The education leads to a degree of Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of surgery (MB, BS by HKU or MB, ChB by CUHK). After a 5- or 6-year degree, one year of internship follows in order to be eligible to practice in Hong Kong.

Both HKU and CUHK provide a prestigious Bachelor of Pharmacy course that is popular among local and overseas students. Students of most other health care disciplines have a study duration of 4 years, except nursing programs which require 5 years.

India

 
Tirunelveli Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India

In India, admission to medical colleges is organized by the central government by NTA (National Testing Agency) through tests known as NEET entrance examination. Students who have successfully completed their 10+2 (Physics, Chemistry and Biology Marks are considered and PCB is mandatory) education (higher secondary school) can appear for the tests the same year.[citation needed]

The NEET-UG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for filling up of 15% of total MBBS seats in India, conducted by NTA (National Testing Agency) 1 time in a year in the month of May intakes about only 65,000 students out of a total applicants of over 15,00,000.[59] The Supreme Court Of India has mandated the necessity of entrance examination based upon multiple choice questions and negative marking for wrong answers with subsequent merit over 50% for selection into MBBS as well as higher medical education. The entrance exams are highly competitive.[citation needed]

The graduate program consists of three professionals consisting of 9 semesters, followed by one-year internship (rotating housemanship). The degree granted is Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) of five years and six months.[citation needed]

The graduate degree of MBBS is divided into three professionals, with each professional ending with a professional exam conducted by the university (a single university may have up to dozens of medical colleges offering various graduate/post-graduate/post-doctoral degrees). After clearing this the student moves into the next professional. Each professional exam consists of a theory exam and a practical exam conducted not only by the same college but also external examiners. The exams are tough and many students are unable to clear them, thereby prolonging their degree time. The first professional is for 1 year and includes preclinical subjects, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The second professional is for 1 and a half year and has subjects pathology, pharmacology, microbiology (including immunology) and forensic medicine. Clinical exposure starts in the second professional. The third professional is divided into two parts. Part 1 consists of ophthalmology, ENT, and PSM (preventive and social medicine) and part 2 consists of general-medicine (including dermatology, psychiatry as short subjects), general surgery (including radiology, anaesthesiology and orthopaedics as short subjects) and pediatrics and gynaecology and obstetrics. This is followed by one-year of internship (house-surgeonship). After internship, the degree of MBBS is awarded by the respective university. Some states have made rural service compulsory for a certain period of time after MBBS.[citation needed]

Selection for higher medical education is through entrance examinations as mandated by the Supreme Court Of India. Further postgraduate qualifications may be obtained as Post-graduate Diploma of two years residency or Doctoral Degree (MS: Master of Surgery, or MD) of three years of residency under the aegis of the Medical Council of India. The MD/MS seats in India are filled up through NEET PG Examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations (NBE) under the supervision of the Directorate General Of Health Services. Theses/Dissertations are mandatory to be submitted and cleared by university along with examinations (written and clinicals) to obtain MD/MS degree. Further sub-speciality post-doctoral qualification (DM - Doctorate of Medicine, or MCh - Magister of Chirurgery) of three years of residency followed by university examinations may also be obtained.[60]

PG (post-graduate) qualification is equivalent to MD/MS, consisting of two/three-years residency after MBBS. A PG diploma may also be obtained through the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which also offers three-years residency for sub-specialisation. All degrees by NBE are called DNB (Diplomate of National Board). DNB's are awarded only after clearance of theses/dissertations and examinations. DNBs equivalent to DM/MCh have to clear examinations mandatorily.[61]

Indonesia

 
A group of Indonesian medical students of Trisakti University trains with an obstetric mannequin.

In Indonesia, high school graduates who aspires to enroll in public medical schools must apply to medicine undergraduate program available in certain public universities. Most common ways to apply to public universities are SNMPTN (without test, using high school evaluation reports) and SBMPTN (with test), both administered by Institution of Higher Education Admissions Test under The Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. Another way with fewer places are available through entrance exam conducted autonomously by each university (known as independent admission). These admissions are highly competitive for medicine, especially in prestigious institutions such as University of Indonesia in Jakarta, Airlangga University in Surabaya, and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. For private medical schools, almost all places offer seats through independently run admission tests.[citation needed]

The standard Indonesian medical school curriculum is six years long. The four years long undergraduate program is composed mainly of classroom education, continued with the last two years in professional program which primarily includes rotations in clinical settings where students learn patient care firsthand. If they pass the undergraduate program, they will be granted the title "S.Ked" (Bachelor of Medicine) and if they finish the professional program and pass the national examination arranged by IDI (Indonesian Medical Association) they will become general physician and be assigned the prefix, "dr. (doctor)".[citation needed]

Upon graduation, a physician planning to become a specialist in a specific field of medicine must complete a residency, which is a supervised training with periods ranging from three to four years. A physician who sub-specializes or who desires more supervised experience may complete a fellowship, which is an additional one to three years of supervised training in his/her area of expertise.[citation needed]

Iran

General medicine education in Iran takes 7 to 7.5 years. Students enter the university after high school. Students study basic medical science (such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, histology, biophysics, embryology, etc.) for 2.5 years. At the end of this period they should pass a "basic science" exam. Those who passed the exam will move on to study physiopathology of different organs in the next 1.5 years. The organ-based learning approach emphasizes critical thinking and clinical application. In the next period of education students enter clinics and educational hospitals for two years. During this period, they will also learn practical skills such as history taking and physical examination. Students should then pass the "pre-internship" exam to enter the last 1.5 years of education in which medical students function as interns. During this period, medical students participate in all aspects of medical care of the patients and they take night calls. At the end of these 7.5 years students are awarded an MD degree. MD doctors can continue their educations through residency and fellowship.[citation needed]

Israel

There are five university medical schools in Israel: the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion in Haifa, the Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, the Hadassah School of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. These all follow the European 6-year model except Bar-Ilan University which has a four-year program similar to the US system.[62]

The Technion Medical School, Ben Gurion University, and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine[63] offer 4-year MD programs for American Bachelor's graduates who have taken the MCAT, interested in completing rigorous medical education in Israel before returning to the US or Canada.

The entrance requirements of the various schools of medicine are very strict. Israeli students require a high school Baccalaureate average above 100 and psychometric examination grade over 700.

The degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) is legally considered to be equivalent to a master's degree within the Israeli Educational System.[64]

All medical school graduates must then pass a medical licensing exam and successfully complete a one-year internship.[65] There are two kinds of internships:

  • Straight internship is done in internal medicine, pediatrics or surgery. Interns spend two months in surgery, two months in pediatrics, one month in emergency medicine, and six consecutive months (the second half of the year) in a chosen specialty.
  • Rotating internship offers a schedule that rotates through all major specialties—including three months of internal medicine (1 month may be substituted for geriatrics), two months of pediatrics (1 month may be substituted for a pediatric subspecialty), two months of surgery (1 month may be substituted for a surgical subspecialty), one month of emergency medicine, one month of anesthesiology and intensive care, and two elective months.

After completing their internship, graduates may practice general medicine or go into a specialty program.

Japan

In Japan, medical schools are faculties of universities and thus they are undergraduate programs that generally last for six years. Admission is based on an exam taken at the end of high school and an entrance exam at the university itself, which is the most competitive.

Medical students study Liberal Arts and Sciences for the first 1–2 years, which include Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Foreign Languages, followed by 2 years of Basic Medicine (Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Immunology), Clinical Medicine, Public health, and Forensics.

Medical students train at the University Hospital for the last two years. Clinical training is a part of the curriculum. Upon completion of the graduation examination, students are awarded an MD Medical graduates are titled as Doctor, as are PhD holders. The university does have an MD/PhD program that enables Doctors of Medicine to become PhD holders, as well.

At the end, Medical students take the National Medical License examination and, if they pass it, become a Physician and register in the record in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The scope of this exam encompasses every aspect of medicine.

Jordan

The Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) degree is awarded in Jordan after completion of six years comprising three years of medical sciences and three clinical years.[66] Currently, six state supported universities include a medical school and grant the degree, which are:[66]

Jordan's undergraduate medical education started in the 1970s with the establishment[67] of the first medical school in the University of Jordan.[66] Their medical education system is well regarded in the region, thus attracting foreign students especially from around the Middle East (more than a third of all students).[66] The sole admission criterion is a satisfactory mark in the high school national exam. Students with the highest mark gain admission through the general competition system (~6% of applicants and ~50% of all admissions).[66] They are rewarded with partially subsidized inexpensive tuition fees. The rest of the admitted students are either foreigners or students that achieved high school marks of 85% or greater.[66] The curricula is divided into an initial 3-year pre-clinical stage followed by 3 clinical years for a total of 6 years of education.[66] The pre-clinical curriculum includes basic sciences, medical sciences and university required courses. In turn, the clinical curriculum includes clerkship rotations lasting from 2 to 12 weeks. At the end of the sixth year, students undergo a written theoretical assessment as well as a supervised clinical assessment. Passing students are awarded a Bachelor's in Medicine and Surgery[66]

Kyrgyzstan

In Kyrgyzstan, the Government university Kyrgyz State Medical Academy offers 6 years duration undergraduate (bachelor's degree) program whereas the other institutions mostly private such as the International School of Medicine at the International University of Kyrgyzstan[68][69] offers a five-year medical program, with a requisite for English knowledge, that is recognized by the World Health Organization, the General Medical Council, and UNESCO. The medical school is also partnered with the University of South Florida School of Medicine, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), the Novosibirsk Medical University (Russia), and the University of Sharjah (UAE).

Other medical schools located in Kyrgyzstan include the 5 years duration MD/MBBS undergraduate degree program at International University of Science and Business or Mezhdunarodnyy Universitet Nauki i Biznesa, Kyrgyzstan[70] others are the Asian Medical Institute, Kyrgyzstan[71] and the Medical Institute, Osh State University.[72]

Lebanon

In Lebanon, there are two programs of medical education followed: the American system (4 years) and the European system (6 years). Programs are offered in English and French. Admission requirements to the American system requires a candidate to complete a bachelor's degree along with specific pre-medical courses during the undergraduate years, and writing the MCAT examination. European programs usually requires a candidate to complete 1 year of general science followed by a selection exam by the end of the year.

Schools following the American system (MD degree) are:

The language of instruction in all three is English.

Schools following the European system (MBBS degree) are:

Malaysia

In Malaysia, getting into medical school is regarded as difficult, due to high fees and a rigorous selection process.[citation needed] Some new medical schools do offer a foundation in medicine course before admission into a full-time medical programme. Most government, and some private medical schools offer MD, and others mostly offer MBBS degrees.

Myanmar

 
Panorama view of Lanmadaw Campus

As of 2015, there are six medical institutions in Myanmar - UM 1, UM 2, DSMA, UM Mdy, UM Mgy and the newly established UMTG.

Myanmar medical schools are government-funded and require Myanmar citizenship for eligibility. No private medical school exist at this moment. In Myanmar, admission to medical colleges is organized under the Department of Health Science, which is the branch of Ministry of Health and Sport of Myanmar.

A student can join one of the six medical universities of Myanmar if he gets the highest scores in the science combination of the matriculation examination. This exam is highly competitive. Entrance is solely based on this examination and academic records have very minor consequences on an application. The undergraduate program is five years plus one year for work experience in government hospitals. After medical school, Myanmar medical graduates are under contract to spend one year of internship and three years of tenure in rural areas before they are eligible for most residency positions. The degree granted is Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). Further postgraduate qualifications may be obtained as a degree (MMedSc) and (DrMedSc).

Nepal

As of 2020, Nepal had 23 medical schools (6 public and 17 private). [80] Medical studies start at undergraduate level and are taught by mostly Indian and Nepalese faculty.[81] Studies typically take four and a half years followed by a one-year internship.[81] Graduates are conferred the MBBS degree.[81] Scholarships are provided to between 10 and 20% of students.[81] Upon graduation, scholarship students have to serve in health facilities in rural Nepal for two years after graduation.[81] In turn, self financing students tend to come from upper socioeconomic status due to the high cost of medical education in Nepal[81]

There are four main medical bodies in Nepal:[citation needed]

The Medical Education Commission was established in 2017 with the goal of improving the quality of medical education in Nepal.[80] Nepal Medical Council (NMC) was established in 2020 with the primary role of registering qualified doctors.[82]

New Zealand

 
Auckland School of Medicine
 
Otago School of Medicine

New Zealand medical programs are undergraduate-entry programs of six years duration. Students are considered for acceptance only after a year of undergraduate basic sciences or, as alternative, following the completion of a bachelor's degree. There are two main medical schools in New Zealand: the University of Auckland and the University of Otago. Each of these has subsidiary medical schools such as Otago's Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Auckland's Waikato Clinical School[citation needed].

The first year of the medical degree is the basic sciences year, which comprises study in chemistry, biology, physics, and biochemistry as well as population health and behavioural sciences. The following two years are spent studying human organ systems and pathological processes in more detail as well as professional and communication development. Toward the end of the third year, students begin direct contact with patients in hospital settings.

The clinical years begin fully at the beginning of year 4, where students rotate through various areas of general clinical medicine with rotation times varying from between two and six weeks. Year 5 continues this pattern, focusing more on specialized areas of medicine and surgery. Final medical school exams (exit exams) are actually held at the end of year 5, which is different from most other countries, where final exams are held near the very end of the medical degree. Final exams must be passed before the student is allowed to enter year 6.[83]

The final year (Year 6) of medical school is known as the "Trainee Intern" year, wherein a student is known as a "Trainee Intern" (commonly referred to in the hospitals as a "T.I."). Trainee interns repeat most rotations undertaken in years 4 and 5 but at a higher level of involvement and responsibility for patient care.[84] Trainee interns receive a stipend grant from the New Zealand government (not applicable for international students). At the current time, this is $NZ 26,756/year (about $US 18,500).[85] Trainee interns have responsibility under supervision for the care of about one-third the patient workload of a junior doctor. However, all prescriptions and most other orders (e.g., radiology requests and charting of IV fluids) made by trainee interns must be countersigned by a registered doctor.

New Zealand medical schools currently award the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB).[86]

Upon completion of the sixth year, students go on to become "House Officers," also known as "House Surgeons" for 1–2 years where they rotate through specialities in the first year and then begin to narrow down to what they'd like to do for speciality training in the second year. After 2 years of house officer work they apply to get into a training scheme and start to train towards the speciality.[87]

Pakistan

 
King Edward Medical University, fourth oldest medical school in South Asia

In Pakistan a medical school is more often referred to as a medical college. A medical college is affiliated with a university as a department. There are however several medical universities and medical institutes with their own medical colleges. All medical colleges and universities are regulated by the respective provincial department of health. They however have to be recognized after meeting a set criteria by a central regulatory authority called Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) in Islamabad. There are almost equal number of government and private medical colleges and universities, with their number exceeding 50. Admission to a government medical college is highly competitive. Entrance into the medical colleges is based on merit under the guidelines of PMDC. Both the academic performance at the college (high school, grades 11–12) level and an entrance test like MCAT are taken into consideration for the eligibility to enter most of the medical colleges. After successfully completing five years of academic and clinical training in the medical college and affiliated teaching hospitals the graduates are awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree. The graduates are then eligible to apply for a medical license from the PMDC. A house job of one-year duration is mandatory in a teaching hospital after completing five years of academic and clinical training in the medical college.

Philippines

The Dominicans, under the Spanish Government, established the oldest medical school in the Philippines in 1871, known as the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (at that time was one with the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy, also considered the oldest pharmacy school in the Philippines) of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros, Manila.

Medical education in the Philippines became widespread under the American administration. The Americans, led by the insular government's Secretary of the Interior, Dean Worcester, built the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and Surgery in 1905. By 1909, nursing instruction was also begun at the Philippine Normal School.

At present there are a number of medical schools in the Philippines, notable examples include the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Our Lady of Fatima University, Far Eastern University – Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, Saint Louis University International School of Medicine, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, UERMMMC College of Medicine, Cebu Doctors' University, Cebu Institute of Medicine, Southwestern University - Matias H. Aznar Memorial College of Medicine Inc., West Visayas State University in Iloilo City, and University of Northern Philippines in Vigan.

In 1994, the Ateneo de Zamboanga University-School of Medicine, then known as Zamboanga Medical School Foundation was established. By 2003, it became the first medical school in the country to offer a double degree program leading to the degrees Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health.

Any college graduate may apply for medical school given that they satisfy the requirements set by the institutions. There is also a test known as the National Medical Admission Test or NMAT. Scores are given on a percentile basis and a high ranking is a must to enter the top medical schools in the country.

In most institutions, medical education lasts for four years. Basic subjects are taken up in the first and second years, while clinical sciences are studied in the second and third years. In their fourth year, students rotate in the various hospital departments, spending up to two months each in the fields of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics, and several weeks in the other specialties. After this, students graduate with a Doctorate in Medicine and apply for postgraduate internship (PGI) in an accredited hospital of their choice. After PGI, the student is eligible to take the Medical Licensure Examination. Passing the examinations confers the right to practice medicine as well as to apply in a Residency Training Program.

Taiwan

The medical education in the Taiwan is usually 7 years (6-year learning plus 1-year internship) in duration, starting right after high schools. The first 2 years in the 7-year system is composed of basic sciences and liberal art courses. Doctor-patient classes are emphasized, and most schools require compulsory amounts of volunteer hours. Clinical sciences are compressed into a two-year program in the third and fourth years. The duration of clerkships and internships varies from school to school, but all of them end at the seventh grade. Taiwan's medical education began in 1897 and is over 100 years old now. Students graduate with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Starting from the year 2013, incoming students will have a 6+2 year curriculum, in which the first 6 years are oriented similarly as before and the last two years are Post Graduate Years; this change aims to increase primary care capabilities of medical school graduates.[88]

Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia medical education is free for all Saudi citizens. A medical student must pass an entrance examination and complete a 1-year pre-medical course containing some basic medical subjects including: Biology, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physics, Medical Biostatistics, and English for medical uses. Passing this year is commonly considered as the most challenging. It offers an MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) degree. after one pre-medical course, five medical years and one training year. By 2010, there are 24 medical schools in KSA- 21 nonprofit and three private medical schools. The last college opened was Sulaiman AlRajhi Colleges with its partnership with Maastricht in the Netherlands.

Singapore

Currently, there are three medical schools in Singapore. Two of them offer undergraduate (5 years degree) and the other offers postgraduate (4 years) entry.

South Korea

Currently, there are 41 medical schools in South Korea.[89] Medical programs in South Korea used to be direct-entry programs such as in the UK, taking six years to complete. A change in the system was under discussion since 1996, and the government started to name the program medical professions graduate school (의학전문대학원). As with any medical education, it was highly political to change the system, and in 2005, the politicians passed a law to allot certain number of students to graduate program without changing the entire medical student pool. By this change, 4+4 year system, such as those found in the United States and Canada, was introduced to the South Korean medical education.[90] After roughly 10 years of systematic change, many schools deemed the "medical professions graduate school" program was not successful, and it only allowed certain applicants (such as politician's offsprings) to enter the program. Financially, the program would at least incur 1.5 times more tuition than going directly from high school, so many applicant turned out to be students with either politician's or family-ties to medical community. This can be seen with recent Cho Kuk scandal that arose with his daughter entering Pusan National University's medical school. This incident is currently highly controversial. The lower central district Seoul court ruled that indeed Cho Kuk's daughter falsified her resume to enter the medical school.[91] As of January 2021, the case will be carried to the appeals court. Due to these highly controversial events with "medical professions graduate school," the schools were reverting to undergraduate medical education that requires six years to complete. By 2017, almost all of the schools have reverted except three schools.

Sri Lanka

There are eight medical schools in Sri Lanka that teach evidence based (sometimes called "western") medicine. The oldest medical school is the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, established as Ceylon Medical School in 1870. There are medical faculties in Peradeniya, Kelaniya, Sri Jayawardanepura, Galle, Batticaloa, Jaffna and Rajarata as well.

Kelaniya Medical Faculty initially started as the North Colombo Medical College (NCMC), a private medical institution. It was one of the earliest private higher educational institutions (1980). Heavy resistance by the medical professionals, university students and other professionals led to its nationalization and to its renaming as the Kelaniya Medical Faculty.

Faculty of Health-Care Sciences is the faculty that offers MBBS together with other para-medical courses. It is an entity of the Eastern University - Sri Lanka.

Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) is the only institution that provides specialist training of medical doctors.

The Institute of Indigenous Medicine of the University of Colombo, the Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurvedhic Medicine Institute of the University of Kelaniya and the Faculty of Siddha Medicine, University of Jaffna teach Ayurvedha/ Unani / Siddha Medicine.

Syria

Medical education in the Syrian universities consists of 6 years of training after high school. The first three include the basic sciences subjects, followed by 2 years of clinical clerkships. The sixth year also include clerkships in main specialties.[92] Then, medical students are required to pass a standardized medical exam for graduation. Placement into residency programs is based on their scores in the exit exam in addition to their medical school cumulative grades in the context of their desires.[93]

Thailand

The first medical school in Thailand was established back in 1890 at Siriraj Hospital, which is now become Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. Currently, there are 26[94][circular reference] medical programs offered nationwide. Most of the Thai medical schools are government-funded and require Thai citizenship for eligibility. Two private medical schools exist at the moment. Some Thais choose to attend private medical schools or attend a medical school in a foreign country due to relatively few openings and extremely competitive entrance examination scores required for enrollment in public medical schools.

The Thai medical education is a six-year system, consisting of 1 year in basic-science, 2 years in pre-clinical training, and 3 years for clinical training. Upon graduation, all medical students must pass national medical licensing examinations and a university-based comprehensive test. After medical school, newly graduated doctors are under contract to spend a year of internship and 2 years of tenure in rural areas before they are eligible for any other residency positions or specialized training, mostly in locations outside Bangkok.

Students will receive Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the end of the process. This degree is equivalent to a master's degree in Thailand.

Europe

Albania

There are four Medical Schools (Fakultete te Mjeksise) in Albania:

These medical schools are usually affiliated with regional hospitals. The course of study lasts 6 years. Students are conferred degree Doctor of Medicine (MD) upon graduation.

Austria

Belarus

There are four medical schools (Medical Universities) in Belarus:

  • Belarusian State Medical University, Minsk (belarusian: Беларускі дзяржаўны медыцынскі ўніверсітэт; Russian: Белорусский государственный медицинский университет) - which contains the famous Bosef Institute for AIDS Research.
  • Gomel State Medical University (belarusian: Гомельскі дзяржаўны медыцынскі ўніверсітэт; Russian: Гомельский государственный медицинский университет)
  • Grodno State Medical University (belarusian: Гродненскі дзяржаўны медыцынскі ўніверсітэт; Russian: Гродненский государственный медицинский университет)
  • Vitebsk State Order of Peoples' Friendship Medical University (belarusian: Віцебскі дзяржаўны медыцынскі ўніверсітэт; Russian: Витебский государственный ордена Дружбы народов медицинский университет)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

There are five Medical Schools (Medicinski Fakultet) in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

These medical schools are usually affiliated with regional hospitals.

The course of study lasts 6 years or 12 semesters. Students are conferred degree Doctor of Medicine (MD) upon graduation.

Admissions

Entry to BH Medical Schools are very competitive due to limited places imposed by the government quota. Students are required to complete Secondary School Leaving Diploma (Gimnazija-Gymnasium (school) or Medicinska skola matura/svedocanstvo/svjedodzba).

Entrance examination is usually held in June/July. Combined score of Secondary School Diploma assessment (on scale 1–5, with 2 minimum passing grade and 5 maximum grade) and entrance examination is taken into consideration. Usually, 5 in Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, and Physics are required for entry to medicine.

Curriculum

Course structure is more traditional and divided in pre-clinical (year 1–3) /clinical part (year 3–6) and subject-based.

Practical examinations are held throughout the degree (Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pathology, Physiology practicals etc.). Dissection is part of all medical curricula in Bosnian and Herz. Medical Schools.

Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, a medical school is a type of college or a faculty of a university. The medium of instruction is officially in Bulgarian. A six- to one-year course in Bulgarian language is required prior to admittance to the medical program. For European candidates, an exam in Biology and Chemistry in Bulgarian is also required. While a number of Bulgarian medical schools have now started offering medical programmes in English, Bulgarian is still required during the clinical years.[95][96]

Students join medical school after completing high-school. Admission offers are made by individual medical schools. Bulgarian applicants have to pass entrance examinations in the subjects of Biology and Chemistry. The competitive result of every candidate is the based on their marks these exams plus their secondary-school certificate marks in the same subjects. Those applicants with the highest results achieved are classified for admission.

The course of study is offered as a six-year program. The first 2 years are pre-clinical, the next 3 years are clinical training and the sixth year is the internship year, during which students work under supervision at the hospitals. During the sixth year, students have to appear for 'state exams' in the 5 major subjects of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Social Medicine, and Pediatrics. Upon successful completion of the six years of study and the state exams the degree of 'Physician' is conferred.

For specialization, graduates have to appear for written tests and interviews to obtain a place in a specialization program. For specialization in general medicine, general practice lasts three years, cardiology lasts four years, internal medicine lasts five years, and general surgery lasts five years.

There are four dedicated medical universities in Bulgaria - Medical University, Sofia, Medical University of Varna, Plovdiv Medical University and Medical University Pleven. Additionally, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and Trakia University also offer medical programmes.[97]

Croatia

In Croatia, there are four out of seven universities that offer a medical degree, the University of Zagreb (offers medical studies in English), University of Rijeka (offers medical studies in English), University of Split (also offers medical studies in English), and the University of Osijek. The Medical schools are a faculties of those four universities. Medical students enroll into medical school after finishing secondary education, typically after a Gymnasium, or after a five-year nursing school, or any other high school lasting four years. During the application process, their high school grades, and the grades of their matriculation exam at the end of high school (Matura) and the score at the obligatory admission exam are taken into account, and the best students are enrolled.

The course of study lasts 6 years or 12 semesters. During the first 3 years, students are engaged in pre-clinical courses (Anatomy, Histology, Chemistry, Physics, Cell Biology, Genetics, Physiology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Pathologic Physiology And Anatomy, Pharmacology, Microbiology, etc.). Contact with patients begins at the third year. The remaining 3 years are composed of rotations at various departments, such as Internal Medicine, Neurology, Radiology, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Surgery, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Anesthesiology, and others. During each academic year, students also enroll into two or three elective courses. After each rotation, the students take a total of about 60 exams. In the end, the students must pass a final multiple-choice exam comprising questions about clinical courses, after which they finally gain an MD, and the title of Doctor of Medicine, which they put after their name. Now the doctors must complete a one-year, supervised, paid internship in a hospital of their choice, after which they take the state (license) examination, which is an eight-part oral examination containing the eight most important clinical branches. After that, the doctors are eligible to practice medicine as general practitioners. Residencies are offered at various hospitals throughout Croatia, and at numerous medical specialities.

Czech Republic

Medical study in Czech Republic has a long tradition dating from the 14th century, with the first medical school starting at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague in 1348, making it the 11th oldest in the world. Students from all over the world are attracted to study medicine in Czech Republic because of the high standards of education provided. Most Czech Universities offer a 6-year General Medicine program in Czech and in English separately for international students.

The admission to medical studies in Czech Republic is based on the performance in high school diploma (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), English proficiency and performance in the entrance exams. Entrance examination is conducted at the university and by some representative offices abroad. After the entrance exams, successful candidates are further scrutinised by conducting interviews.

Most of the international students studying medicine in the Czech Republic originate from US, Canada, UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Israel, Malaysia and the Middle East.

Most faculties of Medicine in Czech Republic have been approved by the U.S. Department of Education for participation in Federal Student Financial Aid Programs and is listed in the Directory of Postsecondary Institutions published by the U.S. Department of Education. The qualifications are also approved in Canada by the Canadian Ministry of Education and Training, and in the UK by the General Medical Council. Most medical schools are globally recognised.

There are nine public government owned medical schools in the Czech Republic:

  • First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague
  • Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague
  • Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague
  • Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, Charles University in Prague
  • Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague
  • Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University
  • Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc
  • Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava

There is one military medical school, Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence.

Denmark

In Denmark, basic medical education is given in four universities: University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg University. The study consists of three years of bachelor and three years of candidate studies, roughly reflecting the preclinical and clinical fields. After six years, the title of Candidate of Medicine (MD) is attained, and after swearing the Danish medical pledge upon graduation, a text from 1815 inspired by the Hippocratic Oath, the medical license (Danish: autorisation) is issued by the Department of Health.[98]

Medical school is usually followed by a year of residency called clinical basic education (Danish: klinisk basisuddannelse or KBU) which upon completion grants the right to practice medicine without supervision. After this, the doctor can pursue one of 38 specialisations which must start within five years after completing the clinical basic education. If the MD pursues a research or university career, sometimes he or she will skip the clinical basic education and remain a basic MD without the right to practice medicine independently.

The Danish word for a licensed physician is læge. The word 'doktor' for a physician is used only in demotic speech, but is by some people erroneously assumed to be a title prefix of all physicians. The title of doctor (dr.med. or in full doctor medicinæ) is not equivalent to an MD in the English language, but reserved for candidates of medicine who have attained a higher doctorate. The Danish/Norwegian dr.med. title is a degree above the PhD and above the German Dr.med.

Finland

In Finland, basic medical education is given in five universities: Helsinki, Kuopio, Oulu, Tampere and Turku. Admission is regulated by an entrance examination. Studies involve an initial two-year preclinical period of mainly theoretical courses in anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology etc. However, students have contact with patients from the beginning of their studies. The preclinical period is followed by a four-year clinical period, when students participate in the work of various hospitals and health care centres, learning necessary medical skills. Some Finnish universities have integrated clinical and preclinical subjects along the six-year course, diverging from the traditional program. A problem-based learning method is widely used, and inclusion of clinical cases in various courses and preclinical subjects is becoming common. All medical schools have research programs for students who wish to undertake scientific work. The duration of basic medical education is six years and the course leads to the degree of Licentiate of Medicine.

France

Medical studies in France are organized as follows:

 
Description of medical studies in France

Right after graduating from high school with a baccalaureat, any student can register at a university of medicine (there are about 30 of them throughout the country). At the end of first year, an internal ranking examination takes place in each of these universities in order to implement the numerus clausus. First year consists mainly of theoretical classes such as biophysics and biochemistry, anatomy, ethics or histology. Passing first year is commonly considered as challenging and requires hard and continuous work. Each student can only try twice. For example, the Université René Descartes welcomes about 2000 students in first year and only 300 after numerus clausus.

The second and third year are usually mainly quite theoretical although the teachings are often accompanied by placements in the field (e.g. internships as nurses or in the emergency room, depending on the university).

During fourth, fifth and sixth years, medical students get a special status called 'Externe' (In some universities, such as Pierre et Marie Curie, the 'Externe' status is given starting in the third year). They work as interns every morning at the hospital plus a few night shifts a month and study in the afternoon. Each internship lasts between 3 and 4 months and takes place in a different department. Med students get five weeks off per year.

At the end of sixth year, they need to pass a national ranking exam, which will determine their specialty. Indeed, the first student gets to choose first, then the second, etcetera. Usually students work pretty hard during fifth and sixth years in order to train properly for the national ranking exam. During these years, actual practice at the hospital and some theoretical courses are meant to balance the training. Such externs' average wage stands between 100 and 300 euros a month.

After that ranking exams, students can start as residents in the specialty they have been able to pick. That is the point from which they also start getting paid.

Towards the end of the medical program, French medical students are provided with more responsibilities and are required to defend a thesis. At the conclusion of the thesis defense, French medical students receive a State Diploma of Doctor of Medicine (MD) or "Diplôme d'Etat de Doctorat en Medecine" for general medicine. For those who are in speciality training will also receive a Diploma of Specialized Studies (DES = Diplôme d'Etudes Specialisees) to mark their specialties. Some students may also receive a Diploma of Specialized Complementary Studies (DESC = Diplôme d'Etudes Specialisees Complementaires).[99]

Georgia

In Georgia, a medical school is a particular kind of college or faculty inside a university. The official teaching language is Georgian, although programs in English are available.

Enrolment admission requirements in Georgia are not as strict as in other countries, as some medical schools do not require entrance exams in chemistry or biology. In addition, less importance is placed on overall secondary school grades and more on the interview process and science subjects.

Many international students from Europe, Asia, and Africa choose to study medicine in Georgia due to the low tuition fees in the country. The high level of medical education and internationally recognized degrees are also important deciding factors for international students.

The study program is available as a six-year curriculum. Pre-clinical training lasts for the first two years, clinical training for the next three, and internship training for the sixth year, which involves students working in hospitals under the supervision of doctors. Students must take "state examinations" in the five primary disciplines of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, social medicine, and pediatrics after their sixth year of study. The title of "Physician" is awarded upon completing six years of education and the state examinations.

Graduates who choose to specialize must take written exams and interviews in order to be accepted into a program. Three years are spent in general practice, four in cardiology, five in internal medicine, and five in general surgery while specializing in general medicine.[100]

Germany

In Germany, admission to medical schools is currently administered jointly by the Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung (SfH), a centralized federal organization, and the universities themselves. The most important criterion for admission is the Numerus clausus, the final GPA scored by the applicant on the Abitur (highest secondary school diploma). However, in light of the recent gain in influence of medical schools in regards to applicant selection, additional criteria are being used to select students for admission. These criteria vary among medical faculties and the final Abitur GPA is always a core indicator and strongly influences admission. Admission remains highly competitive. A very small number of slots per semester are reserved for selected applicants which already hold a university degree (Zweitstudium) and for medical officer candidates (Sanitätsoffizieranwärter).

The first two years of medical school consist of the so-called pre-clinical classes. During this time, the students are instructed in the basic sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry, biology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, etc.) and must pass a federal medical exam (Erster Abschnitt der ärztlichen Prüfung), administered nationally. Upon completion, the students advance to the clinical stage, where they receive three years of training and education in the clinical subjects (e.g., internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, pharmacology, pathology, etc.). After these three years, they have to pass the second federal medical exam (Zweiter Abschnitt der ärztlichen Prüfung) before continuing with the sixth and final year. The last year of medical school consists of the so-called "practical year" (Praktisches Jahr, PJ). Students are required to spend three four-month clerkships, two of them in a hospital (internal medicine and surgery) as well as one elective, which can be one of the other clinical subjects (e. g. family medicine, anesthesiology, neurology, pediatrics, radiology etc.).

After at least six years of medical school, the students graduate with a final federal medical exam (Dritter Abschnitt der ärztlichen Prüfung). Graduates receive the license to practice medicine or dentistry and the professional title of physician (Arzt) or dentist (Zahnarzt). The academic degrees Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.) and Doctor of dental Medicine (Dr. med. dent.) are awarded if the graduate has, in addition, successfully completed a scientific study and dissertation. It is a doctoral degree and therefore different from the MD or DDS degrees in the U.S., which as professional degrees are awarded after passing the final exams and do not require additional scientific work. Many medical students opt to perform their thesis during their studies at medical school, but only a fraction of them is able to finish the dissertation-process during their studies. The requirements for getting a Dr. med. degree across the board are not as hard as for the doctor in natural science (Dr. rer. nat.). Therefore, many critics advocate to adopt a system similar to that of the Anglo-Saxon countries with an MD as a professional degree and a PhD showing additional scientific qualification. If physicians wish to open up a doctor's office, they are required to further complete residency in order to fulfill the federal requirements of becoming Facharzt (specialized in a certain field of medicine like internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics etc.). Oral and maxillofacial surgeons must complete both studies, medicine and dentistry, then afterwards specializing another 5 years.

There are 36 medical faculties in Germany.[citation needed]

Greece

There are seven medical schools in Greece. The most prominent one of them is the University of Athens Medical School. The rest of them are in Patras, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Larissa, Heraklion, and Alexandroupoli. The duration of the studies in Greece is 6 years.

Hungary

Hungary has four medical schools. The best known is Semmelweis University in Budapest which is a specialized university in the area of medicine and health sciences. The University of Debrecen, the University of Pécs and the University of Szeged also has medical faculties. General medicine training takes six years to complete, of which the last year is a practical year. Students receive the degree Dr. med. Univ. or Dr. for short, equivalent to the MD degree upon graduation, after which a graduated physician can start specialist training. All Hungarian medical schools have programs fully taught in English. The diplomas issued by Hungarian Medical Schools are accepted by all European Union countries and several other countries (Norway, US, Canada, Israel etc.)

Iceland

In Iceland, admission to medical school requires passing an organized test, controlled by the University of Iceland, which anyone with a gymnasium degree can take. Only the top 48 scores on the exam are granted admission each year. Medical school in Iceland takes 6 years to complete. Students receive a cand.med. degree upon graduation. Following this, Icelandic regulations require 12 months of clinical internship before granting a full medical license.[101] This internship consists of internal medicine (4 months), surgery (2 months), family medicine (3 months) and a three-month elective period. Upon receiving a license to practice, a physician can start specialist training, in Iceland or abroad.[102][103]

Ireland

There are six medical schools in Ireland. They are at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, University College Cork, University of Limerick and the National University of Ireland, Galway (the National University of Ireland is the degree-awarding institution for all except the University of Limerick and Trinity College). Training lasts four, five or six years, with the last two years in the affiliated teaching hospitals (UCD - St. Vincents University Hospital, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital) (Trinity - St. James's Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital) (UCC - Cork University Hospital) (RCSI - Beaumont Hospital, Connolly Hospital, University Hospital Waterford).

For Programmes that are six years in length, entry is based on secondary school qualifications.[104] Programmes that are four years in length require previous university degrees.[105] The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the University of Limerick were the first medical institutions to offer Graduate Entry Medicine of four years duration in Ireland.[106] This is now also offered in University College Dublin and University College Cork. The National University of Ireland, Galway also launched a graduate entry programme in 2010.

Medical education is regulated by the Irish Medical Council, the statutory body that is also responsible for maintaining a register of medical practitioners.[107] After graduation with the degrees of BM BS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) or MB BCh BAO (Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus in Chirurgia, Baccalaureus in Arte Obstetricia), a doctor is required to spend one year as an intern under supervision before full registration is permitted. Graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland also receive the traditional "Licenciate of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians in Ireland" (LRCP&SI), which was awarded before the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland became an Affiliate of the National University of Ireland and thus was allowed grant degrees, under the Medical Practitioners Act (1978).

Italy

In Italy, the contents of the medical school admission test is decided each year by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and consists of sixty questions divided in five categories: logics and "general education" ("cultura generale"), mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. Results are expressed in a national ranking.

As a general rule, all state-run medical schools in the country administer it on the same day, whereas all privately run medical schools administer it on another day, so that a candidate may take the test once for state-run schools and once for a private school of his or her choice, but no more.

Some universities in Italy provide an international degree course in medicine taught entirely in English for both Italian and non-Italian students. A number of these medical schools are at public universities, and have relatively low tuition fees compared to the English-speaking world, because the cost of the medical education is subsidized by the state for both Italian and non-Italian students. These public medical schools include the International Medical School at the University of Milan, the University of Pavia, the University of Padua, Rome "La Sapienza", Rome "Tor Vergata", Naples Federico II, the Second University of Naples, the University of Messina and the University of Bari. These universities require applicants to rank highly on the International Medical Admissions Test. Italy also has private or parochial, more expensive English-language medical schools such as Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome and Humanitas University in Milan, and at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome campus.

Medicine is one of the university faculties implementing numerus clausus ("numero chiuso"): the overall number of medical students admitted every year is constant, as each medical school is assigned a maximum number of new admission per year by MIUR.

Medical school lasts 6 years (12 semesters). Traditionally, the first three years are devoted to "biological" subjects (physics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, genetics, anatomy, physiology, immunology, pathophysiology, microbiology, and usually English language courses), whereas the later three years are devoted to "clinical" subjects. However, most schools are increasingly devoting the second semester of the third year to clinical subjects and earlier patient contact. In most schools, there are about 36 exams over the 6-year cycle, as well as a number of compulsory rotations and elective activities.

At the end of the cycle, students have to discuss a final thesis before a board of professors; the subject of this thesis may be a review of academic literature or an experimental work, and usually takes more than a year to complete, with most students beginning an internato (internship) in the subject of their choice in their fifth or sixth year. The title awarded at the end of the discussion ceremony is that of "Dottore Magistrale", styled in English as a Doctor of Medicine, which in accordance with the Bologna process is comparable with a master's degree qualification or a US MD.

Until 2020, after graduating, new doctors had to complete a three-month, unpaid, supervised tirocinio post-laurea ("post-degree placement") consisting of two months in their university hospital (one month in a medical service and one in a surgical service) as well as one month shadowing a general practitioner. After getting a statement of successful completion of each month from their supervisors, new doctors took the esame di stato ("state exame") to obtain a full license to practise medicine. Starting from 2020 the three-month postgraduate internship and the state exam are no longer necessary.

New doctors have to register with one of the branches of the Ordine dei Medici ("Order of Physicians"), which are based in each of the Provinces of Italy. Registration makes new doctors legally able to practice medicine without supervision. They will then have to choose between various career paths, each usually requiring a specific admission exam: most either choose to train as general practitioner (a 3-year course run by each Region, including both general practice and rotation at non-university hospitals), or to enter a Scuola di Specializzazione ("specialty school") at a university hospital 4-year or 5-year course.

Lithuania

Lithuania has two medical schools, in Kaunas and Vilnius. Studies are of six years, of which the last year is a practical year. All Lithuanian medical schools have programs in English.

Netherlands and Belgium

In the Netherlands and Belgium, medical students receive 6 years of university education prior to their graduation.

In the Netherlands, students used to receive four years of preclinical training, followed by two years of clinical training (co-assistentschappen, or co-schappen for short) in hospitals. However, for a number of medical schools this has recently changed to three years of preclinical training, followed by three years of clinical training. At least one medical faculty, that of the Utrecht University, clinical training already begins in the third year of medical school. After 6 years, students graduate as basisartsen (comparable to Doctors of Medicine). As a result of the Bologna process, medical students in the Netherlands now receive a bachelor's degree after three years in medical school and a master's degree upon graduation. Prospective students can apply for medical education directly after finishing the highest level of secondary school, vwo; previous undergraduate education is not a precondition for admittance.

The Belgian medical education is much more based on theoretical knowledge than the Dutch system. In the first 3 years, which are very theoretical and lead to a university bachelor degree, general scientific courses are taken such as chemistry, biophysics, physiology, biostatistics, anatomy, virology, etc. To enter the bachelor course in Flanders, prospective students have to pass an exam, as a result of the numerus clausus. In the French-speaking part of Belgium, only the best students that pass the first year of the bachelor course in medicine are admitted to the second and third year.

After the bachelor courses, students are allowed to enter the 'master in medicine' courses, which consist of 4 years of theoretical and clinical study. In general, the first 2 master years are very theoretical and teach the students in human pathology, diseases, pharmacology. The third year is a year full of internships in a wide range of specialities in different clinics. The seventh, final year serves as a kind of 'pre-specialization' year in which the students are specifically trained in the specialty they wish to pursue after medical school. This contrasts with the Dutch approach, in which graduates are literally 'basic doctors' (basisartsen) who have yet to decide on a specialty.

Norway

Medical education in Norway begins with a six- to six-and-a-half-year undergraduate university program. Admission requires a very high GPA from secondary school - medicine consistently ranks as the most difficult university programme to be admitted to in Norway. Furthermore, certain high school subjects are required for admission (chemistry, mathematics and physics). The first two years consists almost wholly of preclinical science subjects, followed by integration of clinical training the remaining four years in a spiral approach. Upon completion, students are awarded a candidatus/candidata medicinae (cand. med.) degree (corresponding to e.g. and MD in the US) and medical license. Those completing a research programme (Forskerlinje) get this added to their degree. Following this, a minimum of 18 months of internship (turnustjeneste) is required before applying on a specialist training in Norway. The internship consist of 6 months of internal medicine, 6 months of surgery and 6 months family medicine. There are currently 43 recognized medical specialties in Norway. Optionally it is possible to pursue the title of doctor medicinae (Dr. med.), by publishing multiple research papers through a university research group followed by completing a dissertation.

Poland

In Poland medicine is taught as an undergraduate degree. After a six-year course graduates are awarded the title of lekarz (doctor), equivalent to a master's degree. Furthermore, medical graduates must complete 13 month long, postgraduate internship to gain full registration to practice medicine.

Portugal

In Portugal, the medical course is a postgraduate degree, so a prior graduation from an undergraduate course (3 to 4 years) in areas involving health such as biology, nursing and pharmaceutical sciences, among others, is necessary for applying for the Master's in Medicine (3 years).[108] Most students (~80%) enter Medical School by joining an integrated master's degree in medicine, this course is composed by an undergraduate course in "Basic Health Sciences" ("Licenciatura em Ciencias Basicas da Saude") (3 years) that involves chemistry, general biology and health and, after that, the master's (three years) which is the clinical course. Access to the Integrated Master's Course in Medicine is gained through National Exams in Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics.[109] After obtaining their master's degree, students must register with Order of Medics (the national medical association) and take a final examination: the students with the best grades are accepted into the medical specialty of their choice. The rest can either wait another year and retake the exam, do less specialized work or seek a residency program abroad.[110] After the exam, all students must complete a one-year general internship program that enables them to practice medicine autonomously.

This is the list of all Medical Schools in Portugal:

Romania

In Romania, medical school is a department of a medical university, which typically includes Dentistry and Pharmacy departments as well. The name facultate is used for departments in their universities too, but the Medicine departments distinguish themselves by the length of studies (6 years), which grants to graduates a status equivalent to that of a Master in Science. The Medicine departments are also marked by reduced flexibility - in theory, a student in a regular university can take courses from different departments, like Chemistry and Geography (although it usually does not happen, majors being clearly defined), while the medical universities do not have any extra offers for their students, due to their specialization. Admission to medical faculty is usually awarded by passing a Human Biology, Organic Chemistry and/or Physics test. The program lasts 6 years, with first 2 years being preclinical and last 4 years being mostly clinical. After these six years, one has to take the national licence exam (which consists of mostly clinically oriented questions, but some questions also deal with basic sciences) and has to write a thesis in any field he/she studied. Final award is Doctor-Medic (titlu onorific) (shortened Dr.), which is not an academic degree (similar to Germany). All graduates have to go through residency and specialization exams after that in order to practice, although older graduates had different requirements and training (e.g., clinical rotations similar to sub-internship) and might still be able to practice Family Medicine / General Medicine.

Russia

Medical schools in Russia offer a 6-year curriculum leading to award Doctor of Medicine (MD) "Physician". Russian medical authorities reluctantly agrees with inclusion in list of international medical schools FAIMER-IMED. FAIMER cannot include medical schools without cooperation from Russia. For example, Orel State University Medical Institute is not included in this list.

Serbia

In Serbia, medical school is a division of a medical university, which also frequently houses schools of dentistry and pharmacy. In their institutions, departments are also referred to as faculties. However, the medical departments stand out due to the length of their programs - six years - which confer on their graduates a standing similar to a Master of Science.

Passing a test in human biology, organic chemistry, or physics is typically required for admission to medical school. If the student is to study in a program taught in English instead of Serbian, and their mother tongue is not English, universities may also require a certificate of proficiency. Official certificates include IELTS or TOEFL.

The English language medical programs in Serbia have proven popular with students from Europe, Asia, and Africa due to the low tuition fees and internationally recognized degrees.

The six-year curriculum is divided into two pre-clinical years and four primarily clinical years. After these six years, one must complete a thesis in any study area and the national license test, which is primarily clinically focused but also includes some questions on basic sciences. Doctor-Medic (abbreviated Dr.) is the final designation but is not considered an academic title.[111]

Sweden

Medical education in Sweden begins with a five-and-a-half-year undergraduate university program leading to the degree "Master of Science in Medicine" (Swedish: Läkarexamen). Following this, the National Board of Health and Welfare requires a minimum of 18 months of clinical internship (Swedish: Allmäntjänstgöring) before granting a medical license to be fully qualified as Medical Doctor (MD).[112]

This internship consists of surgery (3–6 months), internal medicine (3–6 months), psychiatry (three months) and family medicine (six months). Upon receiving a license to practice, a physician is able to apply for a post to start specialist training. There are currently 52 recognized medical specialties in Sweden. The specialist training has a duration of minimum five years, which upon completion grants formal qualification as a specialist.

Switzerland

There are six universities granting medical degrees in Switzerland (plus ETH Zurich that provides the bachelor but not the master in medicine) and six university hospitals:

Turkey

All high school graduates who wish to pursue further education are required to take an MCQ exam. The exam covers most of the high school and secondary school curricula.

A student who scores high enough gets a place in a faculty of his/her desire. Entrance to medical schools is extremely competitive, only very top scoring students are accepted to medical schools.

Medical education takes six years, first three years being Pre-clinical years and the latter three being Clinical years. Right after graduation, graduates can either work as GPs or take another exam called TUS (Medical Specialization Examination) to do residency in a particular department of a particular hospital.

Most of the medical schools in Turkey are state schools but the number of private schools is on the rise. MCQ exam (TYT and AYT) scores required to be accepted to private medical schools are lower compared to their public counterparts. The language of instruction is, in general, Turkish, but few universities also offer schools with English as the language of instruction. This makes Turkey a popular place to study medicine for students from nearby areas like the Balkans, the Middle East, and to a lesser extent North Africa.

Ukraine

Medical degrees in Ukraine were offered only in institutions called medical universities, which are separate from traditional universities. However, some medical schools are now associated with classical universities. These include:

United Kingdom

 
Shepherd's House, King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Guy's Campus in London

Due to the UK code for higher education, first degrees in medicine comprise an integrated programme of study and professional practice spanning several levels. While the final outcomes of the qualifications themselves typically meet the Expectations of the descriptor for higher education qualification at level 7 (the UK master's degree). These degrees may retain, for historical reasons, "Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery" and are abbreviated to MBChB or MBBS.[113]

There are currently 32 institutions that offer medical degrees in the United Kingdom.[114] Completion of a medical degree in the UK results in the award of the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Admission requirements to the schools varies; most insist on solid A-Levels/Highers, a good performance in an aptitude test such as the UKCAT, the BMAT or the GAMSAT, and usually an interview. As of 2008 the UK has approximately 8000 places for medical students.[115]

Methods of education range from courses that offer a problem-based learning approach (alongside lectures etc.), and others having a more traditional pre-clinical/clinical structure. Others combine several approaches in an integrated approach.

Following qualification, UK doctors enter a generalised two-year, competency-based "foundation programme", gaining full GMC (General Medical Council) registration at the end of foundation year one, and applying for specialist training (in medicine, surgery, general practice etc.) after foundation year two.

Many medical schools offer intercalated degree programmes to allow students to focus on an area of research outside their medical degree for a year.

Some medical schools offer graduate entry programmes, which are four years long. The name refers to the fact that students on these courses already have a degree in another subject (i.e. they are graduates). Due to the shorter length of the course, the timetable of these degrees are more intense and the holidays are shorter, compared to students on the 5-year course. In terms of entrance requirements, the 4-year degree restricts entry to those who already hold a first degree, and have previously worked in an area of healthcare. The first degree does not necessarily have to be a BSc degree (this is the criteria for some of the medical schools), whereas other medical schools specify that the prior degree has to be in a science subject. Competition for this course is fierce, with students having to also sit an entrance exam prior to being considered for an interview.

Medical schools typically admit more students into undergraduate programmes than into graduate entry programmes.

Medical career grades of the National Health Service
Year Current (Modernising Medical Careers) Previous
1 Foundation doctor (FY1 and FY2), 2 years Pre-registration house officer (PRHO), 1 year
2 Senior house officer (SHO),
minimum 2 years; often more
3 Specialty registrar,
general practice (GPST), minimum 3 years
Specialty registrar,
hospital speciality (SpR), minimum 5 years
4 Specialist registrar,
4–6 years
GP registrar, 1 year
5 General practitioner,
4 years total time in training
6–8 General practitioner,
minimum 5 years total time in training
9 Consultant, minimum 7 years total time in training Consultant, minimum 7–9 years total time in training
Optional Training is competency based, times shown are a minimum. Training may be extended by obtaining an Academic Clinical Fellowship for research or by dual certification in another speciality. Training may be extended by pursuing medical research (usually 2–3 years), usually with clinical duties as well

Medical students

 
A medical student checking blood pressure on an awareness drive

A person accepted into a medical school and enrolled in an educational program in medicine, with the goal of becoming a medical doctor, is referred to as a medical student. Medical students are generally considered to be at the earliest stage of the medical career pathway. In some locations they are required to be registered with a government body.

Medical students typically engage in both basic science and practical clinical coursework during their tenure in medical school.[116] Course structure and length vary greatly among countries (see above).

Bullying

Medical students, perhaps being vulnerable because of their relatively low status in health care settings, commonly experience verbal abuse, humiliation and harassment (nonsexual or sexual). Physical assault by hooligans on intern medical students and junior doctors are increasing in underprivileged countries[117][118][119] due to lack of proper knowledge of common people and political aggressive behavior. Discrimination based on gender and race is less common.[120] Non-intern medical students often face bullying from their seniors[121] and mandatory bullying from professors during viva voce.[122]

Burnout and depression

A meta-analysis in the American journal JAMA suggested depressive symptoms in 24–29% of all medical students and 25–33% of all resident physicians.[123][124] "Burnout" in medical students, in addition, seems to be associated with increased likelihood of subsequent suicidal ideation,[125] although whether the concept of burnout is a valid way to measure the effects of chronic occupational stress exposure in physicians and physician trainees has been questioned.[126][127]

It has been estimated by a US study that approximately 14% of medical students have symptoms of moderate to severe depression, and roughly 5% have suicidal thoughts at some point during training.[128] In recent years, reports of suicide in unmatched residency applicants has drawn attention to medical student and physician suicide.[129] Internationally depression as well as distress in medical school is widely studied and gained more attention over the years. A recent study among German medical students at international universities displayed the significantly higher risk of depression symptoms being 2.4 times higher than the average population. 23.5% of these German medical students showed clinically relevant depressive symptoms.[130] In a South Korean study, 40% of medical students appeared to have depression.[131] Medical students with more severe depression also may be less likely to seek treatment, largely from fear that faculty members would view them as being unable to handle their responsibilities.[128] Students who feel that they lack a social support system are 10 times more likely to be depressed compared with students that consider themselves to have good social support.[131]

Approximately 10% experience suicidal ideation during medical school.[125] Among the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Nishimura and colleagues reported that the nationwide state of emergency order significantly worsened mental health status of Japanese medical students, and that those who had concerns about a shift toward online education amid the pandemic had significantly higher odds of being depressed.[132]

Lemon and Stone hypothesised in what has become termed the 'Lemon Stone Hypothesis', that medical students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds increase in prevalence during times of national economic adversity. Their hypothesis was a formulation of Becker Maimans' health belief model and Adaption theory. This hypothesis has, to some extent, been supported by a series of surveys.[133]

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For a broad outline see Medical education For a list see List of medical schools For trade associations for medical professionals see Medical college Med school redirects here For the experimental music label see Hospital Records This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations December 2016 Learn how and when to remove this template message A medical school is a tertiary educational institution or part of such an institution that teaches medicine and awards a professional degree for physicians Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery MBBS MBChB MBBCh BMBS Master of Medicine MM MMed Doctor of Medicine MD or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine DO Many medical schools offer additional degrees such as a Doctor of Philosophy PhD master s degree MSc or other post secondary education Medical schools can also carry out medical research and operate teaching hospitals Around the world criteria structure teaching methodology and nature of medical programs offered at medical schools vary considerably Medical schools are often highly competitive using standardized entrance examinations as well as grade point averages and leadership roles to narrow the selection criteria for candidates In most countries the study of medicine is completed as an undergraduate degree not requiring prerequisite undergraduate coursework However an increasing number of places are emerging for graduate entrants who have completed an undergraduate degree including some required courses In the United States and Canada almost all medical degrees are second entry degrees and require several years of previous study at the university level Medical degrees are awarded to medical students after the completion of their degree program which typically lasts five or more years for the undergraduate model and four years for the graduate model Many modern medical schools integrate clinical education with basic sciences from the beginning of the curriculum e g 1 2 More traditional curricula are usually divided into preclinical and clinical blocks In preclinical sciences students study subjects such as biochemistry genetics pharmacology pathology anatomy physiology and medical microbiology among others Subsequent clinical rotations usually include internal medicine general surgery pediatrics psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology among others Although medical schools confer upon graduates a medical degree a physician typically may not legally practice medicine until licensed by the local government authority 3 Licensing may also require passing a test undergoing a criminal background check checking references paying a fee and undergoing several years of postgraduate training Medical schools are regulated by each country and appear in the World Directory of Medical Schools which was formed by the merger of the AVICENNA Directory for Medicine and the FAIMER International Medical Education Directory Contents 1 Africa 1 1 Egypt 1 2 Ghana 1 3 Kenya 1 4 Nigeria 1 5 South Africa 1 6 Sudan 1 7 Tanzania 1 8 Tunisia 1 9 Uganda 1 10 Zimbabwe 2 Americas 2 1 North America 2 1 1 Canada 2 1 2 El Salvador 2 1 3 Panama 2 1 4 United States 2 2 Caribbean 2 2 1 Haiti 2 2 2 Curacao 2 2 3 Dominican Republic 2 3 South America 2 3 1 Argentina 2 3 2 Bolivia 2 3 3 Brazil 2 3 4 Chile 2 3 5 Colombia 2 3 6 Guyana 2 3 7 Uruguay 2 3 8 Venezuela 3 Asia and Oceania 3 1 Australia 3 2 Bangladesh 3 3 Cambodia 3 4 China 3 5 Hong Kong 3 6 India 3 7 Indonesia 3 8 Iran 3 9 Israel 3 10 Japan 3 11 Jordan 3 12 Kyrgyzstan 3 13 Lebanon 3 14 Malaysia 3 15 Myanmar 3 16 Nepal 3 17 New Zealand 3 18 Pakistan 3 19 Philippines 3 20 Taiwan 3 21 Saudi Arabia 3 22 Singapore 3 23 South Korea 3 24 Sri Lanka 3 25 Syria 3 26 Thailand 4 Europe 4 1 Albania 4 2 Austria 4 3 Belarus 4 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 5 Bulgaria 4 6 Croatia 4 7 Czech Republic 4 8 Denmark 4 9 Finland 4 10 France 4 11 Georgia 4 12 Germany 4 13 Greece 4 14 Hungary 4 15 Iceland 4 16 Ireland 4 17 Italy 4 18 Lithuania 4 19 Netherlands and Belgium 4 20 Norway 4 21 Poland 4 22 Portugal 4 23 Romania 4 24 Russia 4 25 Serbia 4 26 Sweden 4 27 Switzerland 4 28 Turkey 4 29 Ukraine 4 30 United Kingdom 5 Medical students 5 1 Bullying 5 2 Burnout and depression 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksAfrica EditFor a more comprehensive list see List of medical schools in Africa By 2005 there were more than 100 medical schools across Africa most of which had been established after 1970 4 Egypt Edit Medical schools within Egypt are five year programs Education is conducted in English and leads to a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery MBBCh Graduates must finish a two year internship program at the end of their studies to obtain their general practitioner license Clinical training happens in each school teaching hospital with few exceptions A small number of schools use Ministry of Health hospitals 5 Admission into Egyptian private and public medical schools is centrally managed by the government After students submit their applications they are distributed among different institutions according to both their order of preference and their high school performance 5 In Egypt there are two main pathways to postgraduate studies in medicine The academic pathway leading to a scientific degree either MSc or PhD The second is the Fellowship of the Egyptian Board FEB program About 20 of medical graduates pursue post graduate studies the rest join the healthcare workforce as general practitioners 5 Ghana Edit There are seven medical schools in Ghana The University of Ghana Medical School in Accra the KNUST School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi University for Development Studies School of Medicine in Tamale University of Cape Coast Medical School and the University of Allied Health Sciences in Ho Volta Region the private Accra College of Medicine 6 and Family Health Medical School another private medical school 7 Basic Medical education lasts 6 years in all medical schools Entry into these medical schools is highly competitive and it is usually based on successful completion of the Senior High School Examinations The University of Ghana Medical School and the University of Cape Coast have however introduced a graduate entry medical program to admit students with mainly science related degrees into a 4 year medical school program four and half years for the University of Cape Coast Students graduating from any of these medical schools get the MBChB degree and the title Dr For the first 3 years students are awarded BSc in the field of Medical Sciences from the University of Ghana medical school and Human biology for KNUST and UDS medical schools The University of Ghana Medical School and KNUST School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi use a traditional medical education model whiles the University for Development Studies School of Medicine and School of Medical science of the University of Cape Coast use the problem based learning model Medical graduates are then registered provisionally with the Medical and Dental Council MDC of Ghana as House Officers Interns Upon completion of the mandatory 2 year housemanship these medical doctors are permanently registered with the MDC and can practice as medical officers General Practitioners anywhere in the country The housemanship training is done only in hospitals accredited for such purposes by the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana Following the permanent registration with the Medical and Dental Council doctors can specialize in any of the various fields that is organized by either the West African College of Physicians and Surgeons or the Ghana College of Physician and Surgeons Medical officers are also sometimes hired by the Ghana Health Service to work in the District Rural areas as Primary Care Physicians Kenya Edit In Kenya medical schools are faculties of a university Medical education lasts for 6 years after which the student graduates with an undergraduate MBChB degree This is followed by a mandatory 12 month full time internship at an approved hospital after which one applies for registration with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board if they intend to practice medicine in the country The first two years of medical school cover the basic medical preclinical sciences while the last four years are focused on the clinical sciences and internship Completion of formal specialty training in Kenya is followed by two years of supervised clinical work before one can apply for recognition as a specialist in their respective field by the medical board There are no medical school entry examinations or interviews and admission is based on the student s performance in the high school exit examination Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education KCSE Students who took the AS Level or the SAT can also apply but there is a very strict quota limiting the number of students that get accepted into public universities This quota does not apply to private universities Further information List of medical schools in Africa Kenya Nigeria Edit There are several medical schools in Nigeria Entrance into these schools is highly competitive Candidates graduating from high school must attain high scores on the West African Examination Council s WAEC Senior School Certificate Exam SSCE GCE and high scores in five subjects Physics Mathematics English Chemistry and Biology in the University Matriculation Examination UME Students undergo rigorous training for 6 years and culminate with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS MBChB The undergraduate program is six years and one year of work experience in government hospitals After medical school graduates are mandated to spend one year of housemanship internship and one year of community service before they are eligible to be fully licensed by the Medical and Dental Council Candidates are required to score at least 280 in the UME Though this score may vary due to different performances per year and it also depends on the college standards South Africa Edit See also List of medical schools in South Africa Further information Healthcare in South Africa Category Teaching hospitals in South Africa and Dental degree South Africa There are eight medical schools in South Africa each under the auspices of a public university As the country is a former British colony most institutions follow the British based undergraduate method of instruction admitting students directly from high school into 6 or 5 year programs Some universities such as the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have started offering post graduate medical degrees that run concurrently with their undergraduate programs In this instance a student having completed an appropriate undergraduate degree with basic sciences can enter into a four year postgraduate program South African medical schools award the MB ChB degree except the University of the Witwatersrand which styles its degree MB BCh Some universities allow students to earn an intercalated degree completing a BSc Medical with an additional year of study after the second or third year of the MBChB The University of Cape Town in particular has spearheaded a recent effort to increase the level of medical research training and exposure of medical students through an Intercalated Honours Programme with the option to extend this to a PhD 8 Following successful completion of study all South African medical graduates must complete a two year internship as well as a further year of community service in order to register with the Health Professions Council and practice as a doctor in the country Specialisation is usually a five to seven year training process depending on the specialty requiring registering as a medical registrar attached to an academic clinical department in a large teaching hospital with appropriate examinations The specialist qualification may be conferred as a Fellowship by the independent Colleges of Medicine of South Africa CMSA following British tradition or as a Magisterial degree by the university usually the M Med Master of Medicine degree The Medical schools and the CMSA also offer Higher Diplomas in many fields Research degrees are the MMed and PhD or MD depending on the university Medical students from all over the world come to South Africa to gain practical experience in the country s many teaching hospitals and rural clinics The language of instruction is English but a few indigenous languages are studied briefly The University of the Free State has a parallel medium policy meaning all English classes are also presented in Afrikaans therefore students who choose to study in Afrikaans do so separately from the English class Sudan Edit In Sudan a medical school is a faculty of a university Medical school is usually 5 6 years and by the end of the 5 6 years the students acquire a bachelor s degree in Medicine and Surgery Post graduating there is a mandatory one year full time internship at one of the universities or Government Teaching hospitals in the four major Specialty in 3 months rotation then a license is issued after a written exam conducted by the Sudan medical council SMC During the first 3 4 years the curriculum is completed and throughout the next 2 years it is repeated with clinical training Students with high grades in high school are accepted for free in Government Universities Private faculty accept low grades than governmental faculty but their grades still high Students who take foreign examinations other than the Sudanese High School Examination are also accepted in Universities students taking IGCSE SATs and other Arabian countries All medical students who want to be enrolled in an internship program should undergo registration under the Sudanese Medical Council Postgraduate training is conducted by Sudan medical specialisation board SMSB and the degree obtained is medical doctor MD The duration of training varies from 4 6 years depend on the scientific Council of the specific speciality Tanzania Edit In Tanzania medical school is a school within a university or can be an independent university dealing with health related courses only affiliated with a large sized hospital Medical education lasts for 5 years after which the student graduates with an undergraduate MD degree This is followed by a mandatory 12 month full time internship at an approved hospital after which one applies for registration with the Medical Council of Tanzania MCT if they intend to practice medicine in the country The first two years of medical school cover the Bio medical sciences or simply basic pre clinical sciences while the last three years are focused on the clinical sciences citation needed There are no medical school entry examinations or interviews and admission is based on students performance in the high school exit examination Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination ACSEE Alternatively are student who took diploma in clinical medicine with an average of G P A 3 5 distinction who have very few seats citation needed Further information List of medical schools in Africa Tanzania Tunisia Edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed November 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message In Tunisia education is free for all Tunisian citizens and for foreigners who have scholarships The oldest Medical school is the Medicine School of Tunis There are four medicine faculties situated in the major cities of Tunis Sfax Sousse and Monastir Admission is bound to the success and score in the Tunisian Baccalaureate examination Admission score threshold is very high based on competition among all applicants throughout the nation Medical school curriculum consists of seven years five years as an extern and two years of internship or intern trainee 9 Two years are medical theory containing all basic sciences related to medicine The curriculum is more focused on theoretical than on practical learning Three years during which the student receives both theoretical and practical training with total immersion in the hospital environment it consists of clinical issues related to all medical specialties During these three years the student has to attend at the university hospital every day rotating around all wards Every period is followed by a clinical exam regarding the student s knowledge in that particular specialty Two years on internship in which the student is a physician but under the supervision of the chief doctor the student rotates over the major and most essential specialties during period of four months each After that student has the choice of either passing the residency national exam or extending his internship for another year after which he gains the status of family physician 10 11 The residency program consists of four to five years in the specialty he qualifies depending on his score in the national residency examination under the rule of highest score chooses first Whether the student chooses to be a family doctor or a specialist he has to make a doctorate thesis which he will be defending in front of a jury after which he gains his degree of Doctor of Medicine MD In contrast studies in dental medicine general practitioner and pharmaceutical studies last only 6 years Courses throughout the university curriculum in both medicine and pharmacy are taught in French There are four universities of general medicine the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis the Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse the Faculty of Medicine of Monastir and the Faculty of Medicine of Sfax On the other hand there is only one university of dentistry and pharmacy in Monastir the faculty of dentistry of Monastir 12 and the faculty of pharmacy of Monastir 13 Uganda Edit Main article Medical school in Uganda As of April 2017 update there are nine accredited medical schools in Uganda 14 Training leading to the award of the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBChB lasts five years if there are no re takes After graduating a year of internship in a hospital designated for that purpose under the supervision of a specialist in that discipline is required before an unrestricted license to practice medicine and surgery is granted by the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council UMDPC There is Postgraduate training such as the degree of Master of Medicine MMed which is a three year programme available at Makerere University School of Medicine in several disciplines Makerere University School of Public Health offers the degree of Master of Public Health MPH following a 22 month period of study which includes field work 15 Zimbabwe Edit In Zimbabwe there are three medical schools is offering Medical degrees For undergrads these are University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences MBChB National University of Science and Technology NUST Medical school MBBS and Midlands State University MSU MBChB Only UZ is offering postgrad degrees in the Medical faculty Training lasts 5 1 2 years The curriculum is as follows Part 1 1 year Biochemistry Communication Skills for Academic Purposes Anatomy Physiology and Behavioral Sciences Professional exams are written in the first two and failure to attain a pass in Biochemistry warranties a repeat of first year Part 2 1 year Communication Skills for Professional Purposes Anatomy Physiology Behavioral Sciences Professional exams are written at the end of second year and failure to attain a passmark in any of the last three courses on the list warranties a repeat of the year Communication Skills can be carried to the next year but the student should pass the course before graduation Part 3 1 5 years Pathology Histopathology Medical Microbiology Chemical Pathology Hematology Forensic Pathology Immunology and Toxicology A professional exam is written at the end of the third year and the student has to pass to proceed There are also surgery and medicine rotations during the year Also the students cover most of the basic Pharmacology during the third stage of the degrees Part 4 1 year Community Medicine Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology Part 5 1 year Medicine Surgery Obstetrics and Gynecology PediatricsInternship is 2 years duration with the first year spent in medicine and surgery and the second year doing pediatrics anesthesia psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology Thereafter one can apply for MMED at the university which last 4 5 years depending on specialty Currently no subspecialist education is available Americas Edit Medical student at a laboratory at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Mexico City North America Edit Canada Edit Main article Medical school in Canada See also List of medical schools in Canada In 2013 the Association of American Medical Colleges lists 17 accredited MD granting medical schools in Canada In Canada a medical school is a faculty or school of a university that offers a three or four year Doctor of Medicine MD degree Generally medical students begin their studies after receiving a bachelor s degree in another field often one of the biological sciences However admittance can still be granted during the third and fourth year Minimum requirements for admission vary by region from two to four years of post secondary study The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada publishes a detailed guide to admission requirements of Canadian faculties of medicine on a yearly basis Admission offers are made by individual medical schools generally on the basis of a personal statement undergraduate record GPA scores on the Medical College Admission Test MCAT and interviews Volunteer work is often an important criterion considered by admission committees All four medical schools in Quebec and two Ontario schools the University of Ottawa Northern Ontario School of Medicine do not require the MCAT McMaster requires that the MCAT be written though they only look for particular scores 6 or better on the verbal reasoning portion of the test The first half of the medical curriculum is dedicated mostly to teaching the basic sciences relevant to medicine Teaching methods can include traditional lectures problem based learning laboratory sessions simulated patient sessions and limited clinical experiences The remainder of medical school is spent in clerkship Clinical clerks participate in the day to day management of patients They are supervised and taught during this clinical experience by residents and fully licensed staff physicians Students enter into the Canadian Resident Matching Service commonly abbreviated as CaRMS in the fall of their final year Students rank their preferences of hospitals and specialties A computerized matching system determines placement for residency positions Match Day usually occurs in March a few months before graduation 16 The length of post graduate training varies with choice of specialty Toronto Faculty of Medicine During the final year of medical school students complete part 1 of the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination MCCQE Upon completion of the final year of medical school students are awarded the degree of MD Students then begin training in the residency program designated to them by CaRMS Part 2 of the MCCQE an Objective Structured Clinical Examination is taken following the completion of twelve months of residency training After both parts of the MCCQE are successfully completed the resident becomes a Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada 17 However in order to practice independently the resident must complete the residency program and take a board examination pertinent to his or her intended scope of practice In the final year of residency training residents take an exam administered by either the College of Family Physicians of Canada or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada depending on whether they are seeking certification in family medicine or another specialty El Salvador Edit Main building of School of Medicine of the University of El Salvador La Universidad de El Salvador University of El Salvador has a program of 8 years for students who want to study medicine The first six years are organized in a two semesters fashion the seventh year is used for a rotating internship through the major specialty areas in a 10 week periods fashion psychiatry and public health share a period and the eighth year is designated for Social service in locations approved by the Ministry of Health usually as attending physician in Community Health Centers or non profit organizations The graduates receive the degree of MD and must register in the Public Health Superior Council to get the medical license and a registered national number that allows them to prescribe barbiturates and other controlled drugs In order to attend further studies Surgery Internal medicine G OB Pediatrics Psychiatry students in the year of Social service or graduates of any Salvadorian university must apply independently for the residency at the hospital of choice the preliminary selection process is based on the results of clinical knowledge tests followed by psychiatric evaluations and interviews with the hospital medical and administrative staff The basic residencies mentioned above commonly last 3 years at the last trimester of the third year the residents can apply to the position of Chief of residents 1 year or follow further studies as residents 3 years of a specialty for example orthopedic surgery urology neurology endocrinology No further studies are offered to date therefore specialists looking for training or practice in a specific area For example a neurosurgeon looking for a specialty in endovascular neurosurgery spine surgery or pediatric neurosurgery must attend studies in other countries and apply for such positions independently citation needed Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud or the Faculty of Health Sciences the medical school at the Latin University of Panama in Panama City Panama Edit This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2013 Main article Medical education in Panama The system of Medical education in Panama usually takes students from high school directly into Medical School for a 6 year course typically with a two year internship citation needed In order to practice medicine in the Republic or enter a residency program in Panama it is required to be a Panamanian citizen citation needed Other requirements include First year rotatory Internship Qualified medical practitioners must successfully undertake and complete one year of supervised practice generally known as an internship The internship is undertaken in hospital positions accredited for this purpose 2 year rural Internship Upon successful conclusion of the first intern year doctors are required to undertake and complete a second year of internship at an assigned government health institution Once this requirement is fulfilled the medical practitioners qualify for full registration in the Medical Board and are licensed to engage in independent medical practice in Panama United States Edit Main article Medical school in the United States See also List of medical schools in the United States In 2019 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine listed 154 accredited MD granting 18 and 36 accredited DO granting medical schools 19 in the United States Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami s Leonard M Miller School of Medicine and the largest hospital in the United States with 1 547 beds 20 There are two doctorate level degrees conferred onto physicians in training in the United States Doctor of Medicine MD and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine DO 21 Both entitle the awardee to train for and receive medical licensing through an accredited residency training program 22 Admission to medical school in the United States is based mainly on a GPA MCAT score admissions essay interview clinical work experience and volunteering activities along with research and leadership roles in an applicant s history While obtaining an undergraduate degree is not an explicit requirement for a few medical schools virtually all admitted students have earned at least a bachelor s degree A few medical schools offer pre admittance to students directly from high school by linking a joint 3 year accelerated undergraduate degree and a standard 4 year medical degree with certain undergraduate universities sometimes referred to as a 7 year program where the student receives a bachelor s degree after their first year in medical school As undergraduates students must complete a series of prerequisites consisting of biology physics and chemistry general chemistry and organic chemistry Many medical schools have additional requirements including calculus genetics statistics biochemistry English and or humanities classes In addition to meeting the pre medical requirements medical school applicants must take and report their scores on the Medical College Admission Test MCAT a standardized test that measures a student s knowledge of the sciences and the English language Some students apply for medical school following their third year of undergraduate education while others pursue advanced degrees or other careers before applying In the nineteenth century there were over 400 medical schools in the United States By 1910 the number was reduced to 148 medical schools and by 1930 the number totaled only 76 Many early medical schools were criticized for not sufficiently preparing their students for medical professions leading to the creation of the American Medical Association in 1847 for the purpose of self regulation of the profession Abraham Flexner who in 1910 released the Flexner report with the Carnegie Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation and the AMA are credited with laying the groundwork for what is now known as the modern medical curriculum 23 The standard U S medical school curriculum is four years long Traditionally the first two years are composed mainly of classroom basic science education while the final two years primarily include rotations in clinical settings where students learn patient care firsthand Today clinical education is spread across all four years with the final year containing the most clinical rotation time The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS of the U S Department of Health and Human Services HHS has published mandatory rules obliging all inpatient and outpatient teaching settings laying down the guidelines for what medical students in the United States may do if they have not completed a clerkship or sub internship These rules apply when they are in the clinical setting in school not when they are for example helping staff events or in other non formal educational settings even if they are helping provide certain clinical services along with nurses and the supervising physicians for example certain basic screening procedures In the formal clinical setting in school they can only assist with certain patient evaluation and management tasks after the vital signs chief complaint and the history of present illness have been discerned but prior to the physical examination reviewing the patient s signs and symptoms in each body system and then reviewing the patient s personal medical genetic family educational occupational and psychosocial history The student s supervising physician or another physician with supervisory privileges if the original doctor is no longer available for some reason must be in the room during the student s work and must conduct this same assessment of the patient before performing the actual physical examination and after finishing and conferring with the student will review his or her notes and opinion editing or correcting them if necessary and will also have his or her own professional notes both must then sign and date and ID the student s notes and the medical record They may observe but not perform physical examinations surgeries endoscopic or laparoscopic procedures radiological or nuclear medicine procedures oncology sessions and obstetrics The patient must give consent for their presence and participation in his or her care even at a teaching facility Depending on the time they have completed in school their familiarity with the area of medicine and the procedure and the presence of their supervisor and any others needed in the room or nearby they may be allowed to conduct certain very minor tests associated with the physical examination such as simple venipuncture blood draws and electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms for learning and experience purposes especially when there is no intern or resident available Washington University Medical School Upon successful completion of medical school students are granted the title of Doctor of Medicine MD or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine DO Residency training which is a supervised training period of three to seven years usually incorporating the first year internship typically completed for specific areas of specialty Physicians who sub specialize or who desire more supervised experience may complete a fellowship which is an additional one to four years of supervised training in their area of expertise Upon completion of medical school in the United States students transition into residency programs through the National Resident Match Program Each year approximately 20 000 MD seniors and 7 000 DO seniors from American medical schools participate in the residency match 24 An additional 21 000 independent applicants all applicant categories excluding U S MD and DO seniors 25 26 previous graduates of an LCME accredited medical school previous graduates of a COCA accredited medical school students graduates of a Canadian medical school students graduates of a Fifth Pathway program students graduates of an international medical school compete for the approximately 38 000 available residency positions 24 For the class of 2009 the average debt of a medical student is 157 990 and 25 1 of students had debt in excess of 200 000 prior to residency 27 For the past decade the cost of attendance has increased 5 6 each year roughly 1 6 to 2 1 times inflation citation needed 28 According to the 2022 Medscape Physician Compensation Report physicians on average earn 339 000 annually 29 Primary care physicians earn an average of 260 000 annually with family medicine physicians earning 255 000 and internists averaging 264 000 Specialists earned an average of 368 000 annually with dermatologists earning 438 000 annually and neurosurgeons having an average of 773 201 30 31 Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia Licensing of medical doctors in the United States is coordinated at the state level Most states require that prospective licensees complete the following requirements citation needed Graduation from an accredited medical school granting the degree of DO or MD American and Canadian schools must be accredited by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine or the Liaison Committee on Medical Education Foreign medical school graduates generally must complete some training within the United States Satisfactory completion of at least one year of an AOA or ACGME approved residency Passing the United States Medical Licensing Examination or the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination USMLE COMLEX or simply the boards USMLE and COMLEX both consist of four similar parts USMLE Step 1 or COMLEX USA Level 1 is taken at the end of the second year of medical school and tests students mastery of the basic sciences as they apply to clinical medicine Step 2 Clinical Knowledge or COMLEX USA Level 2 Cognitive Evaluation CE is taken during the fourth year of medical school and tests students mastery of the management of ill patients Step 2 CS or COMLEX USA Level 2 Performance Evaluation PE is taken during the fourth year of medical school and tests students mastery of clinical skills using a series of standardized patient encounters The USMLE announced on January 26 2021 that they have decided to discontinue Step 2 CS 32 USMLE Step 3 or COMLEX USA Level 3 is taken after the first year of a residency program and tests physicians ability to independently manage the care of patients Caribbean Edit See also List of medical schools in the Caribbean In 2011 the International Medical Education Directory listed 59 current medical schools in the Caribbean 54 grant the MD degree 3 grant the MBBS degree and 2 grant either the MD or MBBS degree 30 of the medical schools in the Caribbean are regional which train students to practice in the country or region where the school is located The remaining 29 Caribbean medical schools are known as offshore schools which primarily train students from the United States and Canada who intend to return home for residency and clinical practice after graduation 33 At most offshore schools basic sciences are completed in the Caribbean while clinical clerkships are completed at teaching hospitals in the United States Several agencies may also accredit Caribbean medical schools as listed in the FAIMER Directory of Organizations that Recognize Accredit Medical Schools DORA 25 of the 29 regional medical schools in the Caribbean are accredited while 14 of the 30 offshore medical schools are accredited Haiti Edit Medical schools in Haiti conduct training in French The universities offering medical training in Haiti are the Universite Notre Dame d Haiti Universite Quisqueya Universite d Etat d Haiti and Universite Lumiere The Universite Notre Dame d Haiti UNDH is a private Catholic university established by the Episcopal Conference of Haiti According to the UNDH website the UNDH is not just about academic degrees it is mainly the formation of a new type of Haiti which includes in its culture and moral values of the Gospel essential for serious and honest people that the country needs today The other two private schools offering medical degrees are Universite Quisqueya and Universite Lumiere The Universite d Etat d Haiti is a public school 34 Attending medical school in Haiti may be less expensive than attending medical universities located in other parts of the world but the impact of the country s political unrest should be considered as it affects the safety of both visitors and Haitians editorializing Duration of basic medical degree course including practical training 6 yearsTitle of degree awarded Docteur en Medecine Doctor of Medicine Medical registration license to practice Registration is obligatory with the Ministere de la Sante publique et de la Population Palais des Ministeres Port au Prince The license to practice medicine is granted to medical graduates who have completed 1 year of social service Those who have qualified abroad must have their degree validated by the Faculty of Medicine in Haiti Foreigners require special authorization to practice Curacao Edit As of 2021 Curacao has five medical schools registered in the World Directory of Medical Schools Avalon University School of Medicine 35 Caribbean Medical University School of Medicine 36 John F Kennedy University School of Medicine 37 New York Medical University School of Medicine 38 and St Martinus University Faculty of Medicine 39 All are located within the city of Willemstad 35 37 36 38 39 These schools provide education in Basic Medical Science BMS which goes towards the degree of Medical Doctor or Doctor of Medicine Presently none of the medical schools offer other degrees such as MBBS or PhD 2016 35 37 36 38 39 All students after completing their medical school s Basic Medical Science program in Curacao will then have to apply to either take USMLE Step Exams the Canadian or British Board Exams citation needed Dominican Republic Edit Centro Hospitalario at the Eastern Central University in San Pedro de Macoris Dominican Republic Medical studies in the Dominican Republic start after graduation from high school The programs typically take around 6 years to complete and are generally in Spanish with a few U S style 4 year programs in English geared to American students e g UNIBE citation needed Programs are typically divided into pre medicine basic sciences and clinical sciences also called pre internship 40 41 42 43 At the end of the pre internship period the aspiring doctors need to complete a 1 year compulsory internship in a Dominican hospital to obtain their medical license 44 South America Edit Argentina Edit See also List of medical schools in Argentina In 1821 the first school of medicine was formed in the capital city Buenos Aires where the bulk of the medical schools are located 45 46 As of 2006 there were 29 medical schools in Argentina 45 Medical degree programs in Argentina typically are six years long 45 with some universities opting for 7 year programs 46 The six years usually consist of 3 years of basic sciences 2 years of clinical sciences and one internship year in Spanish internado anual rotatorio The internship is completed in a Hospital associated with the university 47 45 In some provinces especially round the more developed South there are government funded hospitals who pay for the internship citation needed Some universities have cultural exchange programmes that allow a medical student in their final year to serve their community time overseas 48 Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Buenos Aires In Argentina there are public and private medical schools 45 By law entrance into public institutions is open and tuition free to all who have a high school diploma and universities are expressly forbidden 49 from restricting access with difficult entrance exams Point in case in 2016 the National University of La Plata was forced by governing bodies to stop forcing its students to write an entrance exam As a result that university experienced a major increase in the size of its student population Another consequence is that schools have a high drop out rate during the first years 45 that approach 90 When it comes to educational quality the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Medical Sciences a public university is widely recognised as the top medical school in the country 50 Upon graduation one of the following degrees is obtained according to the university Doctor of Medicine or both Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Surgery Public universities usually confer both degrees and private universities bestow only a Doctor of Medicine In daily practice however there is no substantial difference between what a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Surgery are allowed to do When the degree is obtained a record is created for that new doctor in the index of the National Ministry of Education Ministerio Nacional de Educacion and the physician is given their corresponding medical practitioner s ID which is a number that identifies him and his academic achievements In addition there is a provincial ID i e a number to identify doctors in the province they practice medicine in citation needed Completion of a residency program is not required for medical licensing 45 There is no central system for applying for medical residency Doctors wishing to pursue a specialty must take rigorous entrance exams at the public private institution of their choice that offers them Programs admit approximately half of each year s graduates after a lengthy selection process 45 Most specialty courses last four years depending on the branch of medicine the physician has chosen 45 47 Bolivia Edit In Bolivia all medical schools are Faculties within a university and follow the European model which of a six year curriculum 9 000 ECTS or more divided into three cycles The first two years are called the biomedical or pre clinical cycle During this time students are instructed in the basic sciences anatomy anthropology biochemistry biophysics cell biology embryology histology physiology pharmacology biostatistics etc The next three years are the clinical cycle and consist of medical specialties instruction at the faculty and hospital practice The last year consists of an internship for 3 months each of surgery internal medicine gynecology and pediatrics To acquire the license from the government to practice medicine at the end of the internship an Honorary Mandatory Socialist Service SSSRO must be done in a rural area of the country for at least three months citation needed After getting the degree and license as Graduate of Medicine and Surgery or Medico Cirujano MC may take a post graduate residency from 3 to 6 years in order to acquire a specialty citation needed Brazil Edit See also Category Medical schools in Brazil The Brazilian medical schools follow the European model which of a six year curriculum divided into three cycles of two years each 51 The first two years are called basic cycle ciclo basico During this time students are instructed in the basic sciences anatomy physiology pharmacology immunology etc with activities integrated with the medical specialties allowing the student an overview of the practical application of such content After its completion the students advance to the clinical cycle ciclo clinico At this stage contact with patients intensify and work with tests and diagnostics putting into practice what was learned in the first two years The last two are called internships internato In this last step the students focus on clinical practice through training in teaching hospitals and clinics The teaching of this last step reflects an axis of increasing complexity enabling students to make decisions and participate effectively in form and operative care under the direct supervision of faculty and qualified to act as teaching aids physicians Faculty of Medicine University of Sao Paulo After six years of training students graduate and are awarded the title of physician Medico allowing them to register with the Regional Council of Medicine Conselho Regional de Medicina The recent graduate will be able to exercise the medical profession as a general practitioner and may apply to undertake postgraduate training In 2012 the Regional Council of Medicine of Sao Paulo Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado de Sao Paulo established that physicians who graduate this year must pass a test to obtain professional registration Passing the exam however is not linked to obtaining registration It required only the presence of the candidate and the test performance Already at the national level there is a pending Senate bill creating the National Proficiency Examination in Medicine Exame Nacional de Proficiencia em Medicina which would make the race a prerequisite for the exercise of the profession The Dr Guillermo Grant Benavente Regional Clinical Hospital at the University of Concepcion in Chile Physicians who want to join a specialization program must undergo a new selection examination considered as competitive as that required to join a medical school The specialization programs are divided into two categories direct access and prerequisite The specialties with direct access are those in which the doctor can enroll without having any prior expertise Any physician can apply to examinations for these specialties regardless of the time of training or prior experience To apply to proprietary pre requisite the doctor should have already completed a specialty prior The programs may range from 2 to 6 years Brazil currently recognizes by the Federal Council of Medicine the Brazilian Medical Association and the National Commission of Medical Residency 53 residency programs Fully complied with gives the title of a resident physician specialist Chile Edit In Chile there are 21 medical schools Principal medical schools are Universidad de Chile Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Universidad de Concepcion Universidad de Valparaiso and Universidad de Santiago de Chile The pre grade studies are distributed over 7 years where the last 2 are the internship which include at least surgery internal medicine gynecology and pediatrics After getting the degree of Licenciate in Medicine General Medicine the MD must pass a medicine knowledge exam called the Unique National Exam of Medical Knowledge EUNACOM Examen Unico Nacional de Conocimientos de Medicina in Spanish and can take a direct specialty or work before in primary attention in order to gain access to a residency 52 Colombia Edit See also Category Medical schools in Colombia In Colombia there are 50 medical schools listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools 27 of which have active programs and are currently registered and accredited as high quality programs by the Colombian Ministry of Education citation needed The main medical programs are offered by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Universidad del Rosario Universidad El Bosque Universidad de los Andes Universidad del Valle Universidad de Antioquia Universidad de Santander Universidad del Norte and Universidad de la Sabana Most programs require 6 7 years of study and all offer a Doctor of Medicine MD degree In some cases the school also allows for a second degree to be studied for at the same time this is chosen by the student though most students end up needing to do alternate semesters between their degrees and mostly in careers like microbiology or biomedical engineering For example the Universidad de los Andes has a program whereby the medical student could graduate with both an MD and a Master of Business Administration MBA degree or an MD and a master s degree in public health Admission to medical school varies with the school but is usually dependent on a combination of a general application to the university an entrance exam a personal statement or interview and secondary high school performance mostly as reflected on the ICFES score the grade received on the state exam in the final year of secondary high school citation needed The National University of Colombia College of Medicine in Bogota In most medical programs the first two years deal with basic scientific courses cellular and molecular biology chemistry organic chemistry mathematics and physics and the core medical sciences anatomy embryology histology physiology and biochemistry The following year may change in how it is organized in different schools but is usually organ system based pathophysiology and therapeutics general and systems pathology pharmacology microbiology parasitology immunology and medical genetics are also taught in this block In the first two years the programs also usually begin the courses in the epidemiology track which may or may not include biostatistics a clinical skills track semiology and the clinical examination a social medicine public health track and a medical ethics and communication skills track Modes of training vary but are usually based on lectures simulations standardized patient sessions problem based learning sessions seminars and observational clinical experiences By year three most schools have begun the non elective clinical rotation block with accompanying academic courses these include but are not limited to internal medicine pediatrics general surgery anaesthesiology orthopaedics gynaecology and obstetrics emergency medicine neurology psychiatry oncology urology physical medicine and rehabilitation ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology Elective rotations are usually introduced in the fourth or fifth year though as in the case of the non elective rotations the hospitals the medical students may be placed in or apply to for a given rotation depend entirely on the medical schools This is important in terms of medical training given the particular distinction of patients pathologies procedures and skills seen and learned in private vs public hospitals in Colombia Most schools however have placements in both types of hospitals for many specialties The final year of medical school in Colombia is referred to as the internship year internado The internship year is usually divided into two semesters The first semester is made up of obligatory rotations that every student does though in different orders and the medical intern serves in 5 7 different specialties typically including internal medicine paediatrics general surgery anaesthesiology orthopaedics gynaecology and obstetrics and emergency medicine The extent of the responsibilities of the intern varies with the hospital as does the level of supervision and teaching but generally medical interns in Colombia extensively take write and review clinical histories answer and discuss referrals with their seniors do daily progress notes for the patients under their charge participate in the service rounds present and discuss patients at rounds serve shifts assist in surgical procedures and assist in general administrative tasks Sometimes they are charged with ordering diagnostic testing but under Colombian law they cannot prescribe medication as they are not graduate physicians This of course are to be completed in addition to their academic responsibilities The second semester is made up of elective rotations which can be at home or abroad in the form of clerkships or observerships A final graduation requirement is to sit a standardized exam the State Exam for Quality in Higher Education Examen de Estado de Calidad de la Educacion Superior or ECAES also known as SABER PRO specific to medicine which tests for example knowledge in public health and primary care citation needed After graduation the physician is required to register with the Colombian Ministry of Health in order to complete a year of obligatory social service servicio social obligatorio 53 after which they qualify for a professional license to practice general medicine and apply for a medical residency within Colombia If however the student wishes to practice general medicine abroad or continue onto their postgraduate studies for example they can independently begin the appropriate application equivalency process without doing their obligatory social service In this case they would not be licensed to practise medicine in Colombia and if they wish to do so will have to register with the Ministry of Health N B If the graduate physician gets accepted immediately into a residency within Colombia in internal medicine paediatrics family medicine gynecology and obstetrics general surgery or anaesthesiology they are allowed to complete a 6 month long social service after their residency In contrast with most countries residencies in Colombia are not paid positions since one applies for the program through the university offering the post which requires a tuition However on 9 May 2017 legislation was formally introduced in Congress that would seek to regulate payment for medical residents regulate their tuitions and advocate for their vacation time and working hours citation needed As in other countries the length of residency training depends upon the specialty chosen and following its completion the physician may choose to apply for a fellowship subspecialty at home or abroad depending on the availability of their desired training programs or practice in their specialty Guyana Edit See also Category Medical schools in Guyana In Guyana the medical school is accredited by the National Accreditation Council of Guyana The medical program ranges from 4 years to 6 years Students are taught the basic sciences aspect of the program within the first 2 years of medical school In the clinical sciences program students are introduced to the hospital setting where they gain hands on training from the qualifying physicians and staff at the various teaching hospitals across Guyana Texila American University American International School of Medicine University of GuyanaStudents graduating from the University of Guyana are not required to sit for board exams before practicing medicine in Guyana Students graduating from the American International School of Medicine sit the USMLE PLAB or CAMC exams Uruguay Edit The Dr Manuel Quintela Clinical Hospital at University of the Republic in Montevideo The University of Montevideo in Uruguay is the oldest in Latin America citation needed being public and free co governed by students graduates and teachers The progress of medical and biological sciences in the nineteenth century the impact of the work of Claude Bernard 1813 1878 Rudolf Virchow 1821 1902 Robert Koch 1843 1910 Louis Pasteur 1822 1895 and all the splendor of French medical schools Vienna Berlin and Edinburgh was a stimulus for the creation of a medical school in the country citation needed The basic medical school program lasts seven years There is also a second medical school in the country Universidad CLAEH Centro Latinoamericano de Economia Humana which is located in Punta del Este Maldonado Venezuela Edit The Hospital Universitario de Caracas part of the Central University of Venezuela These are the universities with a medical school in Venezuela citation needed Central University of Venezuela University of the Andes Venezuela University of Zulia University of Carabobo Universidad de Oriente Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda Universidad Nacional Experimental de Los Llanos Centrales Romulo Gallegos Bolivarian University of Venezuela Asia and Oceania EditAustralia Edit See also Medical education in Australia Historically Australian medical schools have followed the British tradition by conferring the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS to its graduates whilst reserving the title of Doctor of Medicine MD for their research training degree analogous to the PhD or for their honorary doctorates Although the majority of Australian MBBS degrees have been graduate programs since the 1990s under the previous Australian Qualifications Framework AQF they remained categorised as Level 7 Bachelor degrees together with other undergraduate programs The latest version of the AQF includes the new category of Level 9 Master s Extended degrees which permits the use of the term Doctor in the styling of the degree title of relevant professional programs As a result various Australian medical schools have replaced their MBBS degrees with the MD to resolve the previous anomalous nomenclature 54 With the introduction of the Master s level MD universities have also renamed their previous medical research doctorates The University of Melbourne was the first to introduce the MD in 2011 as a basic medical degree and has renamed its research degree to Doctor of Medical Science DMedSc 55 Bangladesh Edit See also List of medical colleges in Bangladesh In Bangladesh admission to medical colleges is organized by the Governing Body of University of Dhaka A single admission test is held for government and private colleges Due to the highly competitive nature of these exams the total number of applicants across the country is around 78 times the number of students accepted citation needed Admission is based on the entrance examination as well as students individual academic records citation needed The entrance examination consists carries a time limit of one hour 100 marks are allocated based on objective questions in which the mark allocation is distributed between a variety of subjects Biology questions carry 30 marks Chemistry carries 25 Physics carries 20 English carries 15 and general knowledge carries 10 Additionally students previous SSC Secondary School Certificate scores carry up to 75 and HSC Higher Secondary School Certificate scores carry up to 125 marks towards the overall examination result English students prepare themselves for the admission exam ahead of time This is because as the GCSE and A Level exams do not cover parts of the Bangladesh syllabus citation needed The undergraduate program consists of five years study followed by a one year internship The degrees granted are Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS Further postgraduate qualifications may be obtained in the form of Diplomas or Degrees MS or MD MPhil and FCPS Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons The University of Dhaka launched when a new BSc in Radiology and Imaging Technology offering 30 students the opportunity to contribute towards their entrance exam grade For students who have passed the HSC this course contributes towards 25 of the mark The course contributes up to 75 for Diploma holding students The duration of the course is four years plus 12 weeks for project submission The course covers a variety of topics including behavioural science radiological ethics imaging physics and general procedure Cambodia Edit After 6 years of general medical education a foundation year 5 years all students will graduate with Bachelor of Medical Sciences BMedSc បរ ញ ញ ប ត រ វ ទ យ ស ស រ តវ ជ ជស ស ត រ This degree does not allow graduates to work independently as Physician but it is possible for those who wish to continue to master s degrees in other fields relating to medical sciences such as Public Health Epidemiology Biomedical Science Nutrition Medical graduates who wish to be fully qualified as physicians or specialists must follow the rule as below General Practitioner s GP course is 8 years BMedSc 2 year internship Clinical rotation in the internship is modulated within 4 main disciplines general medicine surgery gynecology pediatrics The medical degree awarded is Doctor of Medicine MD សញ ញ ប ត រ វ ជ ជបណ ឌ ត equivalent to a master s degree After graduating with BMedSc any students who wishes to enter Residency Training Programs are required to sit for a rigorous and Entrance Exam The duration of residency programs lasts from 3 to 4 years after BMedSc BMedSc 3 4 years of specialization Once the graduates after successful defense of their practicum thesis are officially awarded the Degree of Specialized Doctor MD with specialization សញ ញ ប ត រវ ជ ជបណ ឌ តឯកទ ស Professional Doctorate All Medical graduates must complete Thesis Defense and pass the National Exit Exam ប រឡងច ញថ ន ក ជ ត ក ន ងវ ស យស ខ ភ ប ល to become either GPs or Medical or Surgical Specialists China Edit See also List of medical schools in China Peking University Health Science Center Medical education is normally a five year Bachelor degree including a one year internship or clinical rotation during which students are actively involved in patient care before the final degree is awarded Although some medical schools run three year programs hospitals tend to recruit physicians who have graduated from five year programs Students who graduate from medical school must work 1 3 years in a university affiliated hospital after which the student is eligible to take the National Medical Licensing Examination NMLE for physician certification which is conducted by the National Medical Examination Center NMEC Candidates who pass are certified as physicians by the Ministry of Health 56 Clinical specialization usually involves a two or three year Master degree Acceptance is based on the national entrance examination used for all universities In all over China the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS Degree courses have been always taught in Chinese medium There are a few colleges that teach in English and accept foreign medical students Some of those universities have increased their course duration to 6 years The degree conferred is known as Bachelor of Clinical Medicine BCM Hong Kong Edit Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine held by HKU is among the oldest western medicine schools in Far East Main article Medical education in Hong Kong Hong Kong has two comprehensive medical faculties the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Medicine Chinese University of Hong Kong and they are also the sole two institutes offering medical and pharmacy programs Other healthcare discipline programs like nursing are dispersed among some other universities which do not host a medical faculty Prospective medical students enter either faculty of Medicine available from high schools The medical program consists of 5 years for those who take the traditional Hong Kong s Advanced Level Examination HKALE for admission or 6 years for those who take the new syllabus Hong Kong s Diploma of Secondary School Education Examination HKDSE International students who take examinations other the two mentioned will be assessed by the schools to decide if they will take the 5 year program or the 6 year one The competition of entering the medical undergraduate programs is intense as the number of intakes each year is very limited in 2019 the quota is 265 from each school 530 in total 57 58 hence candidates need to attain an excellent examination result and good performance in interviews The schools put a great emphasis on students languages both Chinese and English and communication skills as they need to communicate with other health care professionals and patients or their families in the future During their studies at the medical schools students need to accumulate enough clinical practicing hours in addition before their graduation The education leads to a degree of Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of surgery MB BS by HKU or MB ChB by CUHK After a 5 or 6 year degree one year of internship follows in order to be eligible to practice in Hong Kong Both HKU and CUHK provide a prestigious Bachelor of Pharmacy course that is popular among local and overseas students Students of most other health care disciplines have a study duration of 4 years except nursing programs which require 5 years India Edit Main article Medical college in India See also List of medical Colleges in India Tirunelveli Medical College Tamil Nadu India In India admission to medical colleges is organized by the central government by NTA National Testing Agency through tests known as NEET entrance examination Students who have successfully completed their 10 2 Physics Chemistry and Biology Marks are considered and PCB is mandatory education higher secondary school can appear for the tests the same year citation needed The NEET UG National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for filling up of 15 of total MBBS seats in India conducted by NTA National Testing Agency 1 time in a year in the month of May intakes about only 65 000 students out of a total applicants of over 15 00 000 59 The Supreme Court Of India has mandated the necessity of entrance examination based upon multiple choice questions and negative marking for wrong answers with subsequent merit over 50 for selection into MBBS as well as higher medical education The entrance exams are highly competitive citation needed The graduate program consists of three professionals consisting of 9 semesters followed by one year internship rotating housemanship The degree granted is Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS of five years and six months citation needed The graduate degree of MBBS is divided into three professionals with each professional ending with a professional exam conducted by the university a single university may have up to dozens of medical colleges offering various graduate post graduate post doctoral degrees After clearing this the student moves into the next professional Each professional exam consists of a theory exam and a practical exam conducted not only by the same college but also external examiners The exams are tough and many students are unable to clear them thereby prolonging their degree time The first professional is for 1 year and includes preclinical subjects anatomy physiology and biochemistry The second professional is for 1 and a half year and has subjects pathology pharmacology microbiology including immunology and forensic medicine Clinical exposure starts in the second professional The third professional is divided into two parts Part 1 consists of ophthalmology ENT and PSM preventive and social medicine and part 2 consists of general medicine including dermatology psychiatry as short subjects general surgery including radiology anaesthesiology and orthopaedics as short subjects and pediatrics and gynaecology and obstetrics This is followed by one year of internship house surgeonship After internship the degree of MBBS is awarded by the respective university Some states have made rural service compulsory for a certain period of time after MBBS citation needed Selection for higher medical education is through entrance examinations as mandated by the Supreme Court Of India Further postgraduate qualifications may be obtained as Post graduate Diploma of two years residency or Doctoral Degree MS Master of Surgery or MD of three years of residency under the aegis of the Medical Council of India The MD MS seats in India are filled up through NEET PG Examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations NBE under the supervision of the Directorate General Of Health Services Theses Dissertations are mandatory to be submitted and cleared by university along with examinations written and clinicals to obtain MD MS degree Further sub speciality post doctoral qualification DM Doctorate of Medicine or MCh Magister of Chirurgery of three years of residency followed by university examinations may also be obtained 60 PG post graduate qualification is equivalent to MD MS consisting of two three years residency after MBBS A PG diploma may also be obtained through the National Board of Examinations NBE which also offers three years residency for sub specialisation All degrees by NBE are called DNB Diplomate of National Board DNB s are awarded only after clearance of theses dissertations and examinations DNBs equivalent to DM MCh have to clear examinations mandatorily 61 Indonesia Edit See also List of medical schools in Indonesia A group of Indonesian medical students of Trisakti University trains with an obstetric mannequin In Indonesia high school graduates who aspires to enroll in public medical schools must apply to medicine undergraduate program available in certain public universities Most common ways to apply to public universities are SNMPTN without test using high school evaluation reports and SBMPTN with test both administered by Institution of Higher Education Admissions Test under The Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture Another way with fewer places are available through entrance exam conducted autonomously by each university known as independent admission These admissions are highly competitive for medicine especially in prestigious institutions such as University of Indonesia in Jakarta Airlangga University in Surabaya and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta For private medical schools almost all places offer seats through independently run admission tests citation needed The standard Indonesian medical school curriculum is six years long The four years long undergraduate program is composed mainly of classroom education continued with the last two years in professional program which primarily includes rotations in clinical settings where students learn patient care firsthand If they pass the undergraduate program they will be granted the title S Ked Bachelor of Medicine and if they finish the professional program and pass the national examination arranged by IDI Indonesian Medical Association they will become general physician and be assigned the prefix dr doctor citation needed Upon graduation a physician planning to become a specialist in a specific field of medicine must complete a residency which is a supervised training with periods ranging from three to four years A physician who sub specializes or who desires more supervised experience may complete a fellowship which is an additional one to three years of supervised training in his her area of expertise citation needed Iran Edit See also List of medical schools in Iran General medicine education in Iran takes 7 to 7 5 years Students enter the university after high school Students study basic medical science such as anatomy physiology biochemistry histology biophysics embryology etc for 2 5 years At the end of this period they should pass a basic science exam Those who passed the exam will move on to study physiopathology of different organs in the next 1 5 years The organ based learning approach emphasizes critical thinking and clinical application In the next period of education students enter clinics and educational hospitals for two years During this period they will also learn practical skills such as history taking and physical examination Students should then pass the pre internship exam to enter the last 1 5 years of education in which medical students function as interns During this period medical students participate in all aspects of medical care of the patients and they take night calls At the end of these 7 5 years students are awarded an MD degree MD doctors can continue their educations through residency and fellowship citation needed Israel Edit See also List of medical schools in Israel There are five university medical schools in Israel the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion in Haifa the Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School at Ben Gurion University in Be er Sheva the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University the Hadassah School of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan These all follow the European 6 year model except Bar Ilan University which has a four year program similar to the US system 62 The Technion Medical School Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine 63 offer 4 year MD programs for American Bachelor s graduates who have taken the MCAT interested in completing rigorous medical education in Israel before returning to the US or Canada The entrance requirements of the various schools of medicine are very strict Israeli students require a high school Baccalaureate average above 100 and psychometric examination grade over 700 The degree of Doctor of Medicine MD is legally considered to be equivalent to a master s degree within the Israeli Educational System 64 All medical school graduates must then pass a medical licensing exam and successfully complete a one year internship 65 There are two kinds of internships Straight internship is done in internal medicine pediatrics or surgery Interns spend two months in surgery two months in pediatrics one month in emergency medicine and six consecutive months the second half of the year in a chosen specialty Rotating internship offers a schedule that rotates through all major specialties including three months of internal medicine 1 month may be substituted for geriatrics two months of pediatrics 1 month may be substituted for a pediatric subspecialty two months of surgery 1 month may be substituted for a surgical subspecialty one month of emergency medicine one month of anesthesiology and intensive care and two elective months After completing their internship graduates may practice general medicine or go into a specialty program Japan Edit See also List of medical schools in Japan In Japan medical schools are faculties of universities and thus they are undergraduate programs that generally last for six years Admission is based on an exam taken at the end of high school and an entrance exam at the university itself which is the most competitive Medical students study Liberal Arts and Sciences for the first 1 2 years which include Physics Mathematics Chemistry and Foreign Languages followed by 2 years of Basic Medicine Anatomy Physiology Pharmacology Immunology Clinical Medicine Public health and Forensics Medical students train at the University Hospital for the last two years Clinical training is a part of the curriculum Upon completion of the graduation examination students are awarded an MD Medical graduates are titled as Doctor as are PhD holders The university does have an MD PhD program that enables Doctors of Medicine to become PhD holders as well At the end Medical students take the National Medical License examination and if they pass it become a Physician and register in the record in the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare The scope of this exam encompasses every aspect of medicine Jordan Edit The Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery MBBS degree is awarded in Jordan after completion of six years comprising three years of medical sciences and three clinical years 66 Currently six state supported universities include a medical school and grant the degree which are 66 Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid University of Jordan in Amman Mutah University in Al Karak Hashemite University in Zarqa Yarmouk University in Irbid Al Balqaʼ Applied University in SaltJordan s undergraduate medical education started in the 1970s with the establishment 67 of the first medical school in the University of Jordan 66 Their medical education system is well regarded in the region thus attracting foreign students especially from around the Middle East more than a third of all students 66 The sole admission criterion is a satisfactory mark in the high school national exam Students with the highest mark gain admission through the general competition system 6 of applicants and 50 of all admissions 66 They are rewarded with partially subsidized inexpensive tuition fees The rest of the admitted students are either foreigners or students that achieved high school marks of 85 or greater 66 The curricula is divided into an initial 3 year pre clinical stage followed by 3 clinical years for a total of 6 years of education 66 The pre clinical curriculum includes basic sciences medical sciences and university required courses In turn the clinical curriculum includes clerkship rotations lasting from 2 to 12 weeks At the end of the sixth year students undergo a written theoretical assessment as well as a supervised clinical assessment Passing students are awarded a Bachelor s in Medicine and Surgery 66 Further information Education in Jordan Kyrgyzstan Edit In Kyrgyzstan the Government university Kyrgyz State Medical Academy offers 6 years duration undergraduate bachelor s degree program whereas the other institutions mostly private such as the International School of Medicine at the International University of Kyrgyzstan 68 69 offers a five year medical program with a requisite for English knowledge that is recognized by the World Health Organization the General Medical Council and UNESCO The medical school is also partnered with the University of South Florida School of Medicine the University of Heidelberg Germany the Novosibirsk Medical University Russia and the University of Sharjah UAE Other medical schools located in Kyrgyzstan include the 5 years duration MD MBBS undergraduate degree program at International University of Science and Business or Mezhdunarodnyy Universitet Nauki i Biznesa Kyrgyzstan 70 others are the Asian Medical Institute Kyrgyzstan 71 and the Medical Institute Osh State University 72 Lebanon Edit In Lebanon there are two programs of medical education followed the American system 4 years and the European system 6 years Programs are offered in English and French Admission requirements to the American system requires a candidate to complete a bachelor s degree along with specific pre medical courses during the undergraduate years and writing the MCAT examination European programs usually requires a candidate to complete 1 year of general science followed by a selection exam by the end of the year Schools following the American system MD degree are American University of Beirut located in Beirut and is the oldest medical school in Lebanon established 1867 73 Training takes place at the American University of Beirut Medical center AUBMC in Beirut It graduates 85 physicians per year 73 Lebanese American University LAU Gilbert and Rose Marie Chagoury School of Medicine This program started in 2009 74 LAU Medical school is located in Byblos and has a 10 year affiliation when with Partners Harvard Medical International Training takes place at the University Medical center Rizk Hospital UMC RH located in Beirut It is also affiliated with Clemenceau Medical Center and Rafik Hariri University Hospital It graduates 50 physicians per year 74 University of Balamand This program started in 2001 75 It is located in Koura north Lebanon Training takes place at the Saint George University Medical center in Beirut It graduates 70 physicians per year 75 The language of instruction in all three is English Schools following the European system MBBS degree are Lebanese University languages of instruction are French and English Training takes place at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital located in Beirut It is a 7 year program and graduates 120 physicians per year 76 Saint Joseph University language of instruction is French Training takes place in Hotel Dieu de France hospital located in Beirut It is a 7 year program established in 1883 77 Beirut Arab University language of instruction is English Training takes place at Hammoud Hospital UMC located in Sidon and Rafik Hariri University Hospital located in Beirut It is a 6 year program 78 Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Located in Jounieh languages of instruction are French and English Training takes place at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Notre Dame des Secours located in Byblos It is a newer school established in 2002 and has a 7 year program 79 Malaysia Edit See also List of medical schools in Malaysia In Malaysia getting into medical school is regarded as difficult due to high fees and a rigorous selection process citation needed Some new medical schools do offer a foundation in medicine course before admission into a full time medical programme Most government and some private medical schools offer MD and others mostly offer MBBS degrees Myanmar Edit See also List of medical schools in Myanmar Panorama view of Lanmadaw Campus As of 2015 there are six medical institutions in Myanmar UM 1 UM 2 DSMA UM Mdy UM Mgy and the newly established UMTG Myanmar medical schools are government funded and require Myanmar citizenship for eligibility No private medical school exist at this moment In Myanmar admission to medical colleges is organized under the Department of Health Science which is the branch of Ministry of Health and Sport of Myanmar A student can join one of the six medical universities of Myanmar if he gets the highest scores in the science combination of the matriculation examination This exam is highly competitive Entrance is solely based on this examination and academic records have very minor consequences on an application The undergraduate program is five years plus one year for work experience in government hospitals After medical school Myanmar medical graduates are under contract to spend one year of internship and three years of tenure in rural areas before they are eligible for most residency positions The degree granted is Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS Further postgraduate qualifications may be obtained as a degree MMedSc and DrMedSc Nepal Edit See also List of medical schools in Nepal As of 2020 Nepal had 23 medical schools 6 public and 17 private 80 Medical studies start at undergraduate level and are taught by mostly Indian and Nepalese faculty 81 Studies typically take four and a half years followed by a one year internship 81 Graduates are conferred the MBBS degree 81 Scholarships are provided to between 10 and 20 of students 81 Upon graduation scholarship students have to serve in health facilities in rural Nepal for two years after graduation 81 In turn self financing students tend to come from upper socioeconomic status due to the high cost of medical education in Nepal 81 There are four main medical bodies in Nepal citation needed Tribhuvan University own college Institute of Medicine Maharajgunj affiliated colleges National Medical College Janaki Medical College Universal College of Medical Sciences Gandaki Medical College Chitwan Medical College Kist Medical College Nepal Army Institute of Health Science Kathmandu University own college Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences KUSMS Affiliated colleges Manipal College of Medical Sciences Kathmandu Medical College Nepal Medical College Nepalgunj Medical College College of Medical Sciences Nobel Medical College Lumbini Medical College Birat Medical College Devdaha Medical College B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Patan Academy of Health SciencesThe Medical Education Commission was established in 2017 with the goal of improving the quality of medical education in Nepal 80 Nepal Medical Council NMC was established in 2020 with the primary role of registering qualified doctors 82 New Zealand Edit See also List of medical schools in New Zealand Auckland School of Medicine Otago School of Medicine New Zealand medical programs are undergraduate entry programs of six years duration Students are considered for acceptance only after a year of undergraduate basic sciences or as alternative following the completion of a bachelor s degree There are two main medical schools in New Zealand the University of Auckland and the University of Otago Each of these has subsidiary medical schools such as Otago s Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Auckland s Waikato Clinical School citation needed The first year of the medical degree is the basic sciences year which comprises study in chemistry biology physics and biochemistry as well as population health and behavioural sciences The following two years are spent studying human organ systems and pathological processes in more detail as well as professional and communication development Toward the end of the third year students begin direct contact with patients in hospital settings The clinical years begin fully at the beginning of year 4 where students rotate through various areas of general clinical medicine with rotation times varying from between two and six weeks Year 5 continues this pattern focusing more on specialized areas of medicine and surgery Final medical school exams exit exams are actually held at the end of year 5 which is different from most other countries where final exams are held near the very end of the medical degree Final exams must be passed before the student is allowed to enter year 6 83 The final year Year 6 of medical school is known as the Trainee Intern year wherein a student is known as a Trainee Intern commonly referred to in the hospitals as a T I Trainee interns repeat most rotations undertaken in years 4 and 5 but at a higher level of involvement and responsibility for patient care 84 Trainee interns receive a stipend grant from the New Zealand government not applicable for international students At the current time this is NZ 26 756 year about US 18 500 85 Trainee interns have responsibility under supervision for the care of about one third the patient workload of a junior doctor However all prescriptions and most other orders e g radiology requests and charting of IV fluids made by trainee interns must be countersigned by a registered doctor New Zealand medical schools currently award the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBChB 86 Upon completion of the sixth year students go on to become House Officers also known as House Surgeons for 1 2 years where they rotate through specialities in the first year and then begin to narrow down to what they d like to do for speciality training in the second year After 2 years of house officer work they apply to get into a training scheme and start to train towards the speciality 87 Pakistan Edit Main article Medical school in Pakistan King Edward Medical University fourth oldest medical school in South Asia In Pakistan a medical school is more often referred to as a medical college A medical college is affiliated with a university as a department There are however several medical universities and medical institutes with their own medical colleges All medical colleges and universities are regulated by the respective provincial department of health They however have to be recognized after meeting a set criteria by a central regulatory authority called Pakistan Medical and Dental Council PMDC in Islamabad There are almost equal number of government and private medical colleges and universities with their number exceeding 50 Admission to a government medical college is highly competitive Entrance into the medical colleges is based on merit under the guidelines of PMDC Both the academic performance at the college high school grades 11 12 level and an entrance test like MCAT are taken into consideration for the eligibility to enter most of the medical colleges After successfully completing five years of academic and clinical training in the medical college and affiliated teaching hospitals the graduates are awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBBS degree The graduates are then eligible to apply for a medical license from the PMDC A house job of one year duration is mandatory in a teaching hospital after completing five years of academic and clinical training in the medical college Philippines Edit Main articles List of medical schools in the Philippines and Medical education in the Philippines The Dominicans under the Spanish Government established the oldest medical school in the Philippines in 1871 known as the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at that time was one with the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy also considered the oldest pharmacy school in the Philippines of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros Manila Medical education in the Philippines became widespread under the American administration The Americans led by the insular government s Secretary of the Interior Dean Worcester built the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and Surgery in 1905 By 1909 nursing instruction was also begun at the Philippine Normal School At present there are a number of medical schools in the Philippines notable examples include the University of the Philippines College of Medicine Our Lady of Fatima University Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Saint Louis University International School of Medicine De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila UERMMMC College of Medicine Cebu Doctors University Cebu Institute of Medicine Southwestern University Matias H Aznar Memorial College of Medicine Inc West Visayas State University in Iloilo City and University of Northern Philippines in Vigan In 1994 the Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine then known as Zamboanga Medical School Foundation was established By 2003 it became the first medical school in the country to offer a double degree program leading to the degrees Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health Any college graduate may apply for medical school given that they satisfy the requirements set by the institutions There is also a test known as the National Medical Admission Test or NMAT Scores are given on a percentile basis and a high ranking is a must to enter the top medical schools in the country In most institutions medical education lasts for four years Basic subjects are taken up in the first and second years while clinical sciences are studied in the second and third years In their fourth year students rotate in the various hospital departments spending up to two months each in the fields of internal medicine surgery obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics and several weeks in the other specialties After this students graduate with a Doctorate in Medicine and apply for postgraduate internship PGI in an accredited hospital of their choice After PGI the student is eligible to take the Medical Licensure Examination Passing the examinations confers the right to practice medicine as well as to apply in a Residency Training Program Taiwan Edit See also List of medical schools in Taiwan The medical education in the Taiwan is usually 7 years 6 year learning plus 1 year internship in duration starting right after high schools The first 2 years in the 7 year system is composed of basic sciences and liberal art courses Doctor patient classes are emphasized and most schools require compulsory amounts of volunteer hours Clinical sciences are compressed into a two year program in the third and fourth years The duration of clerkships and internships varies from school to school but all of them end at the seventh grade Taiwan s medical education began in 1897 and is over 100 years old now Students graduate with a Doctor of Medicine MD degree Starting from the year 2013 incoming students will have a 6 2 year curriculum in which the first 6 years are oriented similarly as before and the last two years are Post Graduate Years this change aims to increase primary care capabilities of medical school graduates 88 Saudi Arabia Edit See also List of medical schools in Saudi Arabia In Saudi Arabia medical education is free for all Saudi citizens A medical student must pass an entrance examination and complete a 1 year pre medical course containing some basic medical subjects including Biology Organic Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Physics Medical Biostatistics and English for medical uses Passing this year is commonly considered as the most challenging It offers an MBBS Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery degree after one pre medical course five medical years and one training year By 2010 there are 24 medical schools in KSA 21 nonprofit and three private medical schools The last college opened was Sulaiman AlRajhi Colleges with its partnership with Maastricht in the Netherlands Singapore Edit Currently there are three medical schools in Singapore Two of them offer undergraduate 5 years degree and the other offers postgraduate 4 years entry Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine undergraduate Duke NUS Medical School postgraduate Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine undergraduate South Korea Edit See also List of medical schools in South Korea Currently there are 41 medical schools in South Korea 89 Medical programs in South Korea used to be direct entry programs such as in the UK taking six years to complete A change in the system was under discussion since 1996 and the government started to name the program medical professions graduate school 의학전문대학원 As with any medical education it was highly political to change the system and in 2005 the politicians passed a law to allot certain number of students to graduate program without changing the entire medical student pool By this change 4 4 year system such as those found in the United States and Canada was introduced to the South Korean medical education 90 After roughly 10 years of systematic change many schools deemed the medical professions graduate school program was not successful and it only allowed certain applicants such as politician s offsprings to enter the program Financially the program would at least incur 1 5 times more tuition than going directly from high school so many applicant turned out to be students with either politician s or family ties to medical community This can be seen with recent Cho Kuk scandal that arose with his daughter entering Pusan National University s medical school This incident is currently highly controversial The lower central district Seoul court ruled that indeed Cho Kuk s daughter falsified her resume to enter the medical school 91 As of January 2021 the case will be carried to the appeals court Due to these highly controversial events with medical professions graduate school the schools were reverting to undergraduate medical education that requires six years to complete By 2017 almost all of the schools have reverted except three schools Sri Lanka Edit See also List of medical schools in Sri Lanka There are eight medical schools in Sri Lanka that teach evidence based sometimes called western medicine The oldest medical school is the Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo established as Ceylon Medical School in 1870 There are medical faculties in Peradeniya Kelaniya Sri Jayawardanepura Galle Batticaloa Jaffna and Rajarata as well Kelaniya Medical Faculty initially started as the North Colombo Medical College NCMC a private medical institution It was one of the earliest private higher educational institutions 1980 Heavy resistance by the medical professionals university students and other professionals led to its nationalization and to its renaming as the Kelaniya Medical Faculty Faculty of Health Care Sciences is the faculty that offers MBBS together with other para medical courses It is an entity of the Eastern University Sri Lanka Postgraduate Institute of Medicine PGIM is the only institution that provides specialist training of medical doctors The Institute of Indigenous Medicine of the University of Colombo the Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurvedhic Medicine Institute of the University of Kelaniya and the Faculty of Siddha Medicine University of Jaffna teach Ayurvedha Unani Siddha Medicine Syria Edit Medical education in the Syrian universities consists of 6 years of training after high school The first three include the basic sciences subjects followed by 2 years of clinical clerkships The sixth year also include clerkships in main specialties 92 Then medical students are required to pass a standardized medical exam for graduation Placement into residency programs is based on their scores in the exit exam in addition to their medical school cumulative grades in the context of their desires 93 Thailand Edit See also List of medical schools in Thailand The first medical school in Thailand was established back in 1890 at Siriraj Hospital which is now become Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University Currently there are 26 94 circular reference medical programs offered nationwide Most of the Thai medical schools are government funded and require Thai citizenship for eligibility Two private medical schools exist at the moment Some Thais choose to attend private medical schools or attend a medical school in a foreign country due to relatively few openings and extremely competitive entrance examination scores required for enrollment in public medical schools The Thai medical education is a six year system consisting of 1 year in basic science 2 years in pre clinical training and 3 years for clinical training Upon graduation all medical students must pass national medical licensing examinations and a university based comprehensive test After medical school newly graduated doctors are under contract to spend a year of internship and 2 years of tenure in rural areas before they are eligible for any other residency positions or specialized training mostly in locations outside Bangkok Students will receive Doctor of Medicine MD degree at the end of the process This degree is equivalent to a master s degree in Thailand Europe EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it May 2008 Albania Edit See also List of medical schools in Albania There are four Medical Schools Fakultete te Mjeksise in Albania University of Tirana Faculty of Medicine Kristal University Faculty of Medicine WORLDWIDE University Faculty of Medicine Zonja e Keshillit te MireThese medical schools are usually affiliated with regional hospitals The course of study lasts 6 years Students are conferred degree Doctor of Medicine MD upon graduation Austria Edit Medical University of Vienna Sigmund Freud University Vienna Medical School Medical University of Graz Medical University of Innsbruck Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg The Faculty of Medicine at the Johannes Kepler University Linz Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversitat fur Gesundheitswissenschaften KremsBelarus Edit See also List of medical schools in Belarus There are four medical schools Medical Universities in Belarus Belarusian State Medical University Minsk belarusian Belaruski dzyarzhayny medycynski yniversitet Russian Belorusskij gosudarstvennyj medicinskij universitet which contains the famous Bosef Institute for AIDS Research Gomel State Medical University belarusian Gomelski dzyarzhayny medycynski yniversitet Russian Gomelskij gosudarstvennyj medicinskij universitet Grodno State Medical University belarusian Grodnenski dzyarzhayny medycynski yniversitet Russian Grodnenskij gosudarstvennyj medicinskij universitet Vitebsk State Order of Peoples Friendship Medical University belarusian Vicebski dzyarzhayny medycynski yniversitet Russian Vitebskij gosudarstvennyj ordena Druzhby narodov medicinskij universitet Bosnia and Herzegovina Edit See also List of medical schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina There are five Medical Schools Medicinski Fakultet in Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Banja Luka School of Medicine University of Sarajevo Medical School University of Tuzla Medical School University of East Sarajevo Medical School Foca University of Mostar Medical SchoolThese medical schools are usually affiliated with regional hospitals The course of study lasts 6 years or 12 semesters Students are conferred degree Doctor of Medicine MD upon graduation AdmissionsEntry to BH Medical Schools are very competitive due to limited places imposed by the government quota Students are required to complete Secondary School Leaving Diploma Gimnazija Gymnasium school or Medicinska skola matura svedocanstvo svjedodzba Entrance examination is usually held in June July Combined score of Secondary School Diploma assessment on scale 1 5 with 2 minimum passing grade and 5 maximum grade and entrance examination is taken into consideration Usually 5 in Chemistry Biology Mathematics and Physics are required for entry to medicine CurriculumCourse structure is more traditional and divided in pre clinical year 1 3 clinical part year 3 6 and subject based Practical examinations are held throughout the degree Anatomy Biochemistry Pathology Physiology practicals etc Dissection is part of all medical curricula in Bosnian and Herz Medical Schools Bulgaria Edit For a more comprehensive list see List of medical schools Bulgaria In Bulgaria a medical school is a type of college or a faculty of a university The medium of instruction is officially in Bulgarian A six to one year course in Bulgarian language is required prior to admittance to the medical program For European candidates an exam in Biology and Chemistry in Bulgarian is also required While a number of Bulgarian medical schools have now started offering medical programmes in English Bulgarian is still required during the clinical years 95 96 Students join medical school after completing high school Admission offers are made by individual medical schools Bulgarian applicants have to pass entrance examinations in the subjects of Biology and Chemistry The competitive result of every candidate is the based on their marks these exams plus their secondary school certificate marks in the same subjects Those applicants with the highest results achieved are classified for admission The course of study is offered as a six year program The first 2 years are pre clinical the next 3 years are clinical training and the sixth year is the internship year during which students work under supervision at the hospitals During the sixth year students have to appear for state exams in the 5 major subjects of Internal Medicine Surgery Gynaecology and Obstetrics Social Medicine and Pediatrics Upon successful completion of the six years of study and the state exams the degree of Physician is conferred For specialization graduates have to appear for written tests and interviews to obtain a place in a specialization program For specialization in general medicine general practice lasts three years cardiology lasts four years internal medicine lasts five years and general surgery lasts five years There are four dedicated medical universities in Bulgaria Medical University Sofia Medical University of Varna Plovdiv Medical University and Medical University Pleven Additionally Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski and Trakia University also offer medical programmes 97 Croatia Edit See also List of medical schools in Croatia In Croatia there are four out of seven universities that offer a medical degree the University of Zagreb offers medical studies in English University of Rijeka offers medical studies in English University of Split also offers medical studies in English and the University of Osijek The Medical schools are a faculties of those four universities Medical students enroll into medical school after finishing secondary education typically after a Gymnasium or after a five year nursing school or any other high school lasting four years During the application process their high school grades and the grades of their matriculation exam at the end of high school Matura and the score at the obligatory admission exam are taken into account and the best students are enrolled The course of study lasts 6 years or 12 semesters During the first 3 years students are engaged in pre clinical courses Anatomy Histology Chemistry Physics Cell Biology Genetics Physiology Biochemistry Immunology Pathologic Physiology And Anatomy Pharmacology Microbiology etc Contact with patients begins at the third year The remaining 3 years are composed of rotations at various departments such as Internal Medicine Neurology Radiology Dermatology Psychiatry Surgery Pediatrics Gynecology and Obstetrics Anesthesiology and others During each academic year students also enroll into two or three elective courses After each rotation the students take a total of about 60 exams In the end the students must pass a final multiple choice exam comprising questions about clinical courses after which they finally gain an MD and the title of Doctor of Medicine which they put after their name Now the doctors must complete a one year supervised paid internship in a hospital of their choice after which they take the state license examination which is an eight part oral examination containing the eight most important clinical branches After that the doctors are eligible to practice medicine as general practitioners Residencies are offered at various hospitals throughout Croatia and at numerous medical specialities Czech Republic Edit Medical study in Czech Republic has a long tradition dating from the 14th century with the first medical school starting at the First Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague in 1348 making it the 11th oldest in the world Students from all over the world are attracted to study medicine in Czech Republic because of the high standards of education provided Most Czech Universities offer a 6 year General Medicine program in Czech and in English separately for international students The admission to medical studies in Czech Republic is based on the performance in high school diploma Biology Chemistry and Physics English proficiency and performance in the entrance exams Entrance examination is conducted at the university and by some representative offices abroad After the entrance exams successful candidates are further scrutinised by conducting interviews Most of the international students studying medicine in the Czech Republic originate from US Canada UK Norway Sweden Germany Israel Malaysia and the Middle East Most faculties of Medicine in Czech Republic have been approved by the U S Department of Education for participation in Federal Student Financial Aid Programs and is listed in the Directory of Postsecondary Institutions published by the U S Department of Education The qualifications are also approved in Canada by the Canadian Ministry of Education and Training and in the UK by the General Medical Council Most medical schools are globally recognised There are nine public government owned medical schools in the Czech Republic First Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague Second Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague Third Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague Faculty of Medicine in Plzen Charles University in Prague Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove Charles University in Prague Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Palacky University Olomouc Faculty of Medicine University of OstravaThere is one military medical school Faculty of Military Health Sciences University of Defence Denmark Edit See also List of medical schools in Denmark In Denmark basic medical education is given in four universities University of Copenhagen Aarhus University University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg University The study consists of three years of bachelor and three years of candidate studies roughly reflecting the preclinical and clinical fields After six years the title of Candidate of Medicine MD is attained and after swearing the Danish medical pledge upon graduation a text from 1815 inspired by the Hippocratic Oath the medical license Danish autorisation is issued by the Department of Health 98 Medical school is usually followed by a year of residency called clinical basic education Danish klinisk basisuddannelse or KBU which upon completion grants the right to practice medicine without supervision After this the doctor can pursue one of 38 specialisations which must start within five years after completing the clinical basic education If the MD pursues a research or university career sometimes he or she will skip the clinical basic education and remain a basic MD without the right to practice medicine independently The Danish word for a licensed physician is laege The word doktor for a physician is used only in demotic speech but is by some people erroneously assumed to be a title prefix of all physicians The title of doctor dr med or in full doctor medicinae is not equivalent to an MD in the English language but reserved for candidates of medicine who have attained a higher doctorate The Danish Norwegian dr med title is a degree above the PhD and above the German Dr med Finland Edit See also List of medical schools in Finland In Finland basic medical education is given in five universities Helsinki Kuopio Oulu Tampere and Turku Admission is regulated by an entrance examination Studies involve an initial two year preclinical period of mainly theoretical courses in anatomy biochemistry pharmacology etc However students have contact with patients from the beginning of their studies The preclinical period is followed by a four year clinical period when students participate in the work of various hospitals and health care centres learning necessary medical skills Some Finnish universities have integrated clinical and preclinical subjects along the six year course diverging from the traditional program A problem based learning method is widely used and inclusion of clinical cases in various courses and preclinical subjects is becoming common All medical schools have research programs for students who wish to undertake scientific work The duration of basic medical education is six years and the course leads to the degree of Licentiate of Medicine France Edit Main article Medical school in France Medical studies in France are organized as follows Description of medical studies in France Right after graduating from high school with a baccalaureat any student can register at a university of medicine there are about 30 of them throughout the country At the end of first year an internal ranking examination takes place in each of these universities in order to implement the numerus clausus First year consists mainly of theoretical classes such as biophysics and biochemistry anatomy ethics or histology Passing first year is commonly considered as challenging and requires hard and continuous work Each student can only try twice For example the Universite Rene Descartes welcomes about 2000 students in first year and only 300 after numerus clausus The second and third year are usually mainly quite theoretical although the teachings are often accompanied by placements in the field e g internships as nurses or in the emergency room depending on the university During fourth fifth and sixth years medical students get a special status called Externe In some universities such as Pierre et Marie Curie the Externe status is given starting in the third year They work as interns every morning at the hospital plus a few night shifts a month and study in the afternoon Each internship lasts between 3 and 4 months and takes place in a different department Med students get five weeks off per year At the end of sixth year they need to pass a national ranking exam which will determine their specialty Indeed the first student gets to choose first then the second etcetera Usually students work pretty hard during fifth and sixth years in order to train properly for the national ranking exam During these years actual practice at the hospital and some theoretical courses are meant to balance the training Such externs average wage stands between 100 and 300 euros a month After that ranking exams students can start as residents in the specialty they have been able to pick That is the point from which they also start getting paid Towards the end of the medical program French medical students are provided with more responsibilities and are required to defend a thesis At the conclusion of the thesis defense French medical students receive a State Diploma of Doctor of Medicine MD or Diplome d Etat de Doctorat en Medecine for general medicine For those who are in speciality training will also receive a Diploma of Specialized Studies DES Diplome d Etudes Specialisees to mark their specialties Some students may also receive a Diploma of Specialized Complementary Studies DESC Diplome d Etudes Specialisees Complementaires 99 Georgia Edit The European University Georgia In Georgia a medical school is a particular kind of college or faculty inside a university The official teaching language is Georgian although programs in English are available Enrolment admission requirements in Georgia are not as strict as in other countries as some medical schools do not require entrance exams in chemistry or biology In addition less importance is placed on overall secondary school grades and more on the interview process and science subjects Many international students from Europe Asia and Africa choose to study medicine in Georgia due to the low tuition fees in the country The high level of medical education and internationally recognized degrees are also important deciding factors for international students The study program is available as a six year curriculum Pre clinical training lasts for the first two years clinical training for the next three and internship training for the sixth year which involves students working in hospitals under the supervision of doctors Students must take state examinations in the five primary disciplines of internal medicine surgery gynecology and obstetrics social medicine and pediatrics after their sixth year of study The title of Physician is awarded upon completing six years of education and the state examinations Graduates who choose to specialize must take written exams and interviews in order to be accepted into a program Three years are spent in general practice four in cardiology five in internal medicine and five in general surgery while specializing in general medicine 100 Germany Edit See also List of medical schools in Germany The University of Freiburg Faculty of Medicine In Germany admission to medical schools is currently administered jointly by the Stiftung fur Hochschulzulassung SfH a centralized federal organization and the universities themselves The most important criterion for admission is the Numerus clausus the final GPA scored by the applicant on the Abitur highest secondary school diploma However in light of the recent gain in influence of medical schools in regards to applicant selection additional criteria are being used to select students for admission These criteria vary among medical faculties and the final Abitur GPA is always a core indicator and strongly influences admission Admission remains highly competitive A very small number of slots per semester are reserved for selected applicants which already hold a university degree Zweitstudium and for medical officer candidates Sanitatsoffizieranwarter The first two years of medical school consist of the so called pre clinical classes During this time the students are instructed in the basic sciences e g physics chemistry biology anatomy physiology biochemistry etc and must pass a federal medical exam Erster Abschnitt der arztlichen Prufung administered nationally Upon completion the students advance to the clinical stage where they receive three years of training and education in the clinical subjects e g internal medicine surgery obstetrics and gynecology pediatrics pharmacology pathology etc After these three years they have to pass the second federal medical exam Zweiter Abschnitt der arztlichen Prufung before continuing with the sixth and final year The last year of medical school consists of the so called practical year Praktisches Jahr PJ Students are required to spend three four month clerkships two of them in a hospital internal medicine and surgery as well as one elective which can be one of the other clinical subjects e g family medicine anesthesiology neurology pediatrics radiology etc After at least six years of medical school the students graduate with a final federal medical exam Dritter Abschnitt der arztlichen Prufung Graduates receive the license to practice medicine or dentistry and the professional title of physician Arzt or dentist Zahnarzt The academic degrees Doctor of Medicine Dr med and Doctor of dental Medicine Dr med dent are awarded if the graduate has in addition successfully completed a scientific study and dissertation It is a doctoral degree and therefore different from the MD or DDS degrees in the U S which as professional degrees are awarded after passing the final exams and do not require additional scientific work Many medical students opt to perform their thesis during their studies at medical school but only a fraction of them is able to finish the dissertation process during their studies The requirements for getting a Dr med degree across the board are not as hard as for the doctor in natural science Dr rer nat Therefore many critics advocate to adopt a system similar to that of the Anglo Saxon countries with an MD as a professional degree and a PhD showing additional scientific qualification If physicians wish to open up a doctor s office they are required to further complete residency in order to fulfill the federal requirements of becoming Facharzt specialized in a certain field of medicine like internal medicine surgery pediatrics etc Oral and maxillofacial surgeons must complete both studies medicine and dentistry then afterwards specializing another 5 years There are 36 medical faculties in Germany citation needed Greece Edit There are seven medical schools in Greece The most prominent one of them is the University of Athens Medical School The rest of them are in Patras Thessaloniki Ioannina Larissa Heraklion and Alexandroupoli The duration of the studies in Greece is 6 years Hungary Edit Hungary has four medical schools The best known is Semmelweis University in Budapest which is a specialized university in the area of medicine and health sciences The University of Debrecen the University of Pecs and the University of Szeged also has medical faculties General medicine training takes six years to complete of which the last year is a practical year Students receive the degree Dr med Univ or Dr for short equivalent to the MD degree upon graduation after which a graduated physician can start specialist training All Hungarian medical schools have programs fully taught in English The diplomas issued by Hungarian Medical Schools are accepted by all European Union countries and several other countries Norway US Canada Israel etc Iceland Edit In Iceland admission to medical school requires passing an organized test controlled by the University of Iceland which anyone with a gymnasium degree can take Only the top 48 scores on the exam are granted admission each year Medical school in Iceland takes 6 years to complete Students receive a cand med degree upon graduation Following this Icelandic regulations require 12 months of clinical internship before granting a full medical license 101 This internship consists of internal medicine 4 months surgery 2 months family medicine 3 months and a three month elective period Upon receiving a license to practice a physician can start specialist training in Iceland or abroad 102 103 Ireland Edit See also List of medical schools in Ireland There are six medical schools in Ireland They are at Trinity College Dublin the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University College Dublin University College Cork University of Limerick and the National University of Ireland Galway the National University of Ireland is the degree awarding institution for all except the University of Limerick and Trinity College Training lasts four five or six years with the last two years in the affiliated teaching hospitals UCD St Vincents University Hospital Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Trinity St James s Hospital Tallaght University Hospital UCC Cork University Hospital RCSI Beaumont Hospital Connolly Hospital University Hospital Waterford For Programmes that are six years in length entry is based on secondary school qualifications 104 Programmes that are four years in length require previous university degrees 105 The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the University of Limerick were the first medical institutions to offer Graduate Entry Medicine of four years duration in Ireland 106 This is now also offered in University College Dublin and University College Cork The National University of Ireland Galway also launched a graduate entry programme in 2010 Medical education is regulated by the Irish Medical Council the statutory body that is also responsible for maintaining a register of medical practitioners 107 After graduation with the degrees of BM BS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery or MB BCh BAO Medicinae Baccalaureus Baccalaureus in Chirurgia Baccalaureus in Arte Obstetricia a doctor is required to spend one year as an intern under supervision before full registration is permitted Graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland also receive the traditional Licenciate of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians in Ireland LRCP amp SI which was awarded before the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland became an Affiliate of the National University of Ireland and thus was allowed grant degrees under the Medical Practitioners Act 1978 Italy Edit In Italy the contents of the medical school admission test is decided each year by the Ministry of Education Universities and Research MIUR and consists of sixty questions divided in five categories logics and general education cultura generale mathematics physics chemistry and biology Results are expressed in a national ranking As a general rule all state run medical schools in the country administer it on the same day whereas all privately run medical schools administer it on another day so that a candidate may take the test once for state run schools and once for a private school of his or her choice but no more Some universities in Italy provide an international degree course in medicine taught entirely in English for both Italian and non Italian students A number of these medical schools are at public universities and have relatively low tuition fees compared to the English speaking world because the cost of the medical education is subsidized by the state for both Italian and non Italian students These public medical schools include the International Medical School at the University of Milan the University of Pavia the University of Padua Rome La Sapienza Rome Tor Vergata Naples Federico II the Second University of Naples the University of Messina and the University of Bari These universities require applicants to rank highly on the International Medical Admissions Test Italy also has private or parochial more expensive English language medical schools such as Vita Salute San Raffaele University Universita Campus Bio Medico in Rome and Humanitas University in Milan and at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome campus Medicine is one of the university faculties implementing numerus clausus numero chiuso the overall number of medical students admitted every year is constant as each medical school is assigned a maximum number of new admission per year by MIUR Medical school lasts 6 years 12 semesters Traditionally the first three years are devoted to biological subjects physics chemistry biology biochemistry genetics anatomy physiology immunology pathophysiology microbiology and usually English language courses whereas the later three years are devoted to clinical subjects However most schools are increasingly devoting the second semester of the third year to clinical subjects and earlier patient contact In most schools there are about 36 exams over the 6 year cycle as well as a number of compulsory rotations and elective activities At the end of the cycle students have to discuss a final thesis before a board of professors the subject of this thesis may be a review of academic literature or an experimental work and usually takes more than a year to complete with most students beginning an internato internship in the subject of their choice in their fifth or sixth year The title awarded at the end of the discussion ceremony is that of Dottore Magistrale styled in English as a Doctor of Medicine which in accordance with the Bologna process is comparable with a master s degree qualification or a US MD Until 2020 after graduating new doctors had to complete a three month unpaid supervised tirocinio post laurea post degree placement consisting of two months in their university hospital one month in a medical service and one in a surgical service as well as one month shadowing a general practitioner After getting a statement of successful completion of each month from their supervisors new doctors took the esame di stato state exame to obtain a full license to practise medicine Starting from 2020 the three month postgraduate internship and the state exam are no longer necessary New doctors have to register with one of the branches of the Ordine dei Medici Order of Physicians which are based in each of the Provinces of Italy Registration makes new doctors legally able to practice medicine without supervision They will then have to choose between various career paths each usually requiring a specific admission exam most either choose to train as general practitioner a 3 year course run by each Region including both general practice and rotation at non university hospitals or to enter a Scuola di Specializzazione specialty school at a university hospital 4 year or 5 year course Lithuania Edit Lithuania has two medical schools in Kaunas and Vilnius Studies are of six years of which the last year is a practical year All Lithuanian medical schools have programs in English Netherlands and Belgium Edit See also List of medical schools in Netherlands and List of medical schools in Belgium In the Netherlands and Belgium medical students receive 6 years of university education prior to their graduation In the Netherlands students used to receive four years of preclinical training followed by two years of clinical training co assistentschappen or co schappen for short in hospitals However for a number of medical schools this has recently changed to three years of preclinical training followed by three years of clinical training At least one medical faculty that of the Utrecht University clinical training already begins in the third year of medical school After 6 years students graduate as basisartsen comparable to Doctors of Medicine As a result of the Bologna process medical students in the Netherlands now receive a bachelor s degree after three years in medical school and a master s degree upon graduation Prospective students can apply for medical education directly after finishing the highest level of secondary school vwo previous undergraduate education is not a precondition for admittance The Belgian medical education is much more based on theoretical knowledge than the Dutch system In the first 3 years which are very theoretical and lead to a university bachelor degree general scientific courses are taken such as chemistry biophysics physiology biostatistics anatomy virology etc To enter the bachelor course in Flanders prospective students have to pass an exam as a result of the numerus clausus In the French speaking part of Belgium only the best students that pass the first year of the bachelor course in medicine are admitted to the second and third year After the bachelor courses students are allowed to enter the master in medicine courses which consist of 4 years of theoretical and clinical study In general the first 2 master years are very theoretical and teach the students in human pathology diseases pharmacology The third year is a year full of internships in a wide range of specialities in different clinics The seventh final year serves as a kind of pre specialization year in which the students are specifically trained in the specialty they wish to pursue after medical school This contrasts with the Dutch approach in which graduates are literally basic doctors basisartsen who have yet to decide on a specialty Norway Edit See also List of medical schools in Norway Medical education in Norway begins with a six to six and a half year undergraduate university program Admission requires a very high GPA from secondary school medicine consistently ranks as the most difficult university programme to be admitted to in Norway Furthermore certain high school subjects are required for admission chemistry mathematics and physics The first two years consists almost wholly of preclinical science subjects followed by integration of clinical training the remaining four years in a spiral approach Upon completion students are awarded a candidatus candidata medicinae cand med degree corresponding to e g and MD in the US and medical license Those completing a research programme Forskerlinje get this added to their degree Following this a minimum of 18 months of internship turnustjeneste is required before applying on a specialist training in Norway The internship consist of 6 months of internal medicine 6 months of surgery and 6 months family medicine There are currently 43 recognized medical specialties in Norway Optionally it is possible to pursue the title of doctor medicinae Dr med by publishing multiple research papers through a university research group followed by completing a dissertation Poland Edit In Poland medicine is taught as an undergraduate degree After a six year course graduates are awarded the title of lekarz doctor equivalent to a master s degree Furthermore medical graduates must complete 13 month long postgraduate internship to gain full registration to practice medicine See also Category Medical schools in Poland Portugal Edit This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message In Portugal the medical course is a postgraduate degree so a prior graduation from an undergraduate course 3 to 4 years in areas involving health such as biology nursing and pharmaceutical sciences among others is necessary for applying for the Master s in Medicine 3 years 108 Most students 80 enter Medical School by joining an integrated master s degree in medicine this course is composed by an undergraduate course in Basic Health Sciences Licenciatura em Ciencias Basicas da Saude 3 years that involves chemistry general biology and health and after that the master s three years which is the clinical course Access to the Integrated Master s Course in Medicine is gained through National Exams in Biology Chemistry and Mathematics 109 After obtaining their master s degree students must register with Order of Medics the national medical association and take a final examination the students with the best grades are accepted into the medical specialty of their choice The rest can either wait another year and retake the exam do less specialized work or seek a residency program abroad 110 After the exam all students must complete a one year general internship program that enables them to practice medicine autonomously This is the list of all Medical Schools in Portugal Universidade do Minho Braga Universidade do Algarve Faro Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias da Saude Covilha Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto Porto Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute PortoRomania Edit See also List of medical schools in Romania In Romania medical school is a department of a medical university which typically includes Dentistry and Pharmacy departments as well The name facultate is used for departments in their universities too but the Medicine departments distinguish themselves by the length of studies 6 years which grants to graduates a status equivalent to that of a Master in Science The Medicine departments are also marked by reduced flexibility in theory a student in a regular university can take courses from different departments like Chemistry and Geography although it usually does not happen majors being clearly defined while the medical universities do not have any extra offers for their students due to their specialization Admission to medical faculty is usually awarded by passing a Human Biology Organic Chemistry and or Physics test The program lasts 6 years with first 2 years being preclinical and last 4 years being mostly clinical After these six years one has to take the national licence exam which consists of mostly clinically oriented questions but some questions also deal with basic sciences and has to write a thesis in any field he she studied Final award is Doctor Medic titlu onorific shortened Dr which is not an academic degree similar to Germany All graduates have to go through residency and specialization exams after that in order to practice although older graduates had different requirements and training e g clinical rotations similar to sub internship and might still be able to practice Family Medicine General Medicine Russia Edit See also List of medical schools in Europe Russia Medical schools in Russia offer a 6 year curriculum leading to award Doctor of Medicine MD Physician Russian medical authorities reluctantly agrees with inclusion in list of international medical schools FAIMER IMED FAIMER cannot include medical schools without cooperation from Russia For example Orel State University Medical Institute is not included in this list Serbia Edit In Serbia medical school is a division of a medical university which also frequently houses schools of dentistry and pharmacy In their institutions departments are also referred to as faculties However the medical departments stand out due to the length of their programs six years which confer on their graduates a standing similar to a Master of Science Passing a test in human biology organic chemistry or physics is typically required for admission to medical school If the student is to study in a program taught in English instead of Serbian and their mother tongue is not English universities may also require a certificate of proficiency Official certificates include IELTS or TOEFL The English language medical programs in Serbia have proven popular with students from Europe Asia and Africa due to the low tuition fees and internationally recognized degrees The six year curriculum is divided into two pre clinical years and four primarily clinical years After these six years one must complete a thesis in any study area and the national license test which is primarily clinically focused but also includes some questions on basic sciences Doctor Medic abbreviated Dr is the final designation but is not considered an academic title 111 Sweden Edit See also List of medical schools in Sweden Medical education in Sweden begins with a five and a half year undergraduate university program leading to the degree Master of Science in Medicine Swedish Lakarexamen Following this the National Board of Health and Welfare requires a minimum of 18 months of clinical internship Swedish Allmantjanstgoring before granting a medical license to be fully qualified as Medical Doctor MD 112 This internship consists of surgery 3 6 months internal medicine 3 6 months psychiatry three months and family medicine six months Upon receiving a license to practice a physician is able to apply for a post to start specialist training There are currently 52 recognized medical specialties in Sweden The specialist training has a duration of minimum five years which upon completion grants formal qualification as a specialist Switzerland Edit See also Healthcare in Switzerland There are six universities granting medical degrees in Switzerland plus ETH Zurich that provides the bachelor but not the master in medicine and six university hospitals Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel see also University Hospital of Basel Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern see also University Hospital of Bern Faculty of Sciences and Medicine University of Fribourg see also University of Fribourg Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva see also University Hospital of Geneva Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne see also University Hospital of Lausanne Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich see also University Hospital of Zurich Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology of the ETH ZurichTurkey Edit All high school graduates who wish to pursue further education are required to take an MCQ exam The exam covers most of the high school and secondary school curricula A student who scores high enough gets a place in a faculty of his her desire Entrance to medical schools is extremely competitive only very top scoring students are accepted to medical schools Medical education takes six years first three years being Pre clinical years and the latter three being Clinical years Right after graduation graduates can either work as GPs or take another exam called TUS Medical Specialization Examination to do residency in a particular department of a particular hospital Most of the medical schools in Turkey are state schools but the number of private schools is on the rise MCQ exam TYT and AYT scores required to be accepted to private medical schools are lower compared to their public counterparts The language of instruction is in general Turkish but few universities also offer schools with English as the language of instruction This makes Turkey a popular place to study medicine for students from nearby areas like the Balkans the Middle East and to a lesser extent North Africa Ukraine Edit Medical degrees in Ukraine were offered only in institutions called medical universities which are separate from traditional universities However some medical schools are now associated with classical universities These include Ternopil State Medical University Donetsk National Medical University Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Kharkiv National Medical University Dnipro State Medical University Ivano Frankivsk National Medical University Bukovinian State Medical University Zaporizhia State Medical University Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy Donetsk National Medical University Bogomolets National Medical University Of Ukraine Crimea State Medical University Luhansk State Medical University Odessa National Medical University Vinnytsia National Pirogov Memorial Medical University School of Medicine of V N Karazin Kharkiv National University Medical Faculty of Sumy State University Medical Faculty of Uzhgorod University Medical Faculty of Dnipro National University Kyiv Medical University of UAFMUnited Kingdom Edit Main article Medical school in the United Kingdom See also List of medical schools in the United Kingdom Shepherd s House King s College London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Guy s Campus in London Due to the UK code for higher education first degrees in medicine comprise an integrated programme of study and professional practice spanning several levels While the final outcomes of the qualifications themselves typically meet the Expectations of the descriptor for higher education qualification at level 7 the UK master s degree These degrees may retain for historical reasons Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery and are abbreviated to MBChB or MBBS 113 There are currently 32 institutions that offer medical degrees in the United Kingdom 114 Completion of a medical degree in the UK results in the award of the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Admission requirements to the schools varies most insist on solid A Levels Highers a good performance in an aptitude test such as the UKCAT the BMAT or the GAMSAT and usually an interview As of 2008 the UK has approximately 8000 places for medical students 115 Methods of education range from courses that offer a problem based learning approach alongside lectures etc and others having a more traditional pre clinical clinical structure Others combine several approaches in an integrated approach University of Edinburgh Medical School Following qualification UK doctors enter a generalised two year competency based foundation programme gaining full GMC General Medical Council registration at the end of foundation year one and applying for specialist training in medicine surgery general practice etc after foundation year two Many medical schools offer intercalated degree programmes to allow students to focus on an area of research outside their medical degree for a year Some medical schools offer graduate entry programmes which are four years long The name refers to the fact that students on these courses already have a degree in another subject i e they are graduates Due to the shorter length of the course the timetable of these degrees are more intense and the holidays are shorter compared to students on the 5 year course In terms of entrance requirements the 4 year degree restricts entry to those who already hold a first degree and have previously worked in an area of healthcare The first degree does not necessarily have to be a BSc degree this is the criteria for some of the medical schools whereas other medical schools specify that the prior degree has to be in a science subject Competition for this course is fierce with students having to also sit an entrance exam prior to being considered for an interview Medical schools typically admit more students into undergraduate programmes than into graduate entry programmes Medical career grades of the National Health Service Year Current Modernising Medical Careers Previous1 Foundation doctor FY1 and FY2 2 years Pre registration house officer PRHO 1 year2 Senior house officer SHO minimum 2 years often more3 Specialty registrar general practice GPST minimum 3 years Specialty registrar hospital speciality SpR minimum 5 years4 Specialist registrar 4 6 years GP registrar 1 year5 General practitioner 4 years total time in training6 8 General practitioner minimum 5 years total time in training9 Consultant minimum 7 years total time in training Consultant minimum 7 9 years total time in trainingOptional Training is competency based times shown are a minimum Training may be extended by obtaining an Academic Clinical Fellowship for research or by dual certification in another speciality Training may be extended by pursuing medical research usually 2 3 years usually with clinical duties as wellMedical students Edit A medical student checking blood pressure on an awareness drive A person accepted into a medical school and enrolled in an educational program in medicine with the goal of becoming a medical doctor is referred to as a medical student Medical students are generally considered to be at the earliest stage of the medical career pathway In some locations they are required to be registered with a government body Medical students typically engage in both basic science and practical clinical coursework during their tenure in medical school 116 Course structure and length vary greatly among countries see above Bullying Edit Main article Bullying in medicine Medical students perhaps being vulnerable because of their relatively low status in health care settings commonly experience verbal abuse humiliation and harassment nonsexual or sexual Physical assault by hooligans on intern medical students and junior doctors are increasing in underprivileged countries 117 118 119 due to lack of proper knowledge of common people and political aggressive behavior Discrimination based on gender and race is less common 120 Non intern medical students often face bullying from their seniors 121 and mandatory bullying from professors during viva voce 122 Burnout and depression Edit See also Stress in medical students A meta analysis in the American journal JAMA suggested depressive symptoms in 24 29 of all medical students and 25 33 of all resident physicians 123 124 Burnout in medical students in addition seems to be associated with increased likelihood of subsequent suicidal ideation 125 although whether the concept of burnout is a valid way to measure the effects of chronic occupational stress exposure in physicians and physician trainees has been questioned 126 127 It has been estimated by a US study that approximately 14 of medical students have symptoms of moderate to severe depression and roughly 5 have suicidal thoughts at some point during training 128 In recent years 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