Now a days, globally every international medical student is looking towards UK. Every year many international medical students are trying to get into UK medical schools both for graduate or postgraduate medical degree and also for fellowship or memberships programs. Getting in to UK as medical professionals has now becoming everybody’s career preference.
After US government under president Trump has made students’ entry into USA difficult, students are now looking at United Kingdom where they can opt for careers in medicine with entry at various levels, be it undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate or membership and fellowship of various royal colleges. Many of such different level exams are explained below.
Fellowship or membership programs
Fellowship or membership programs are available in UK for various medical specialties. Major advantage of the membership program is that it enables to get a consultant level post. Most of these membership programs are provided by UK’s Royal colleges. Few of them are enumerated as follows:
- MRCOG: Membership of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- MRCOP: Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
- MRCPCH: Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- MRCPsych: Membership of Royal College of Psychiatrists
- MRCS: Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons
- MJDF: Diploma of Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties at The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- DRCOG: Diploma of Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- DCH: Diploma of Child Health
- FRCR: Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists
- FRCA: Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (inclusive of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management)
For membership programs the candidates are required to clear entrance examinations conducted by Royal Colleges. For fellowship, existing fellows propose the candidate to Royal College by filling up a proposal form on candidate’s behalf which is then evaluated by the Council. Fellowship is awarded to candidate based on their clinical achievements. Doctors who have Membership of Royal Colleges for 4 or more years are automatically entitled for fellowship.
Professional and linguistic assessments board (PLAB)
Professional and linguistic assessments board (PLAB) test is an entrance examination in which medical graduate from around the globe can sit after completing their MBBS or equivalent medical degree. On successful clearance of this exam, General Medical Council (GMC) will grant the candidate with individual limited registration. After clearing this exam, the candidates get enrolled in the UK’s GMC (general medical council) register. However, applicants get entry into the trainee level posts in the UK’s health care system, where they will be allowed to practise in supervised employment in the National Health Service.
MBBS in UK
If you want to pursue bachelor degree in medicine (MBBS) in UK you have three options via which most of UK medical schools enroll international students into their colleges: International English Language Testing System (IELTS), UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) or the Bio Medical Admissions Test (BMAT).
ILETS with minimum score of 7.0 is required. If you have such grades, you can very easily enter UK for studying medicine as this is the academic standard requirement for undergraduate medicine. International medical aspirants must have the understanding of what is National Health Service and how does it work. This is very crucial for international medical aspirants understand the basics their health systems.
Bio Medical Admissions Test is an aptitude test as a part of admission test that is taken by candidates to medicine, veterinary, biomedical sciences, and dentistry and other related courses. This test was developed by Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing and is now used by various universities in UK and also by other universities at global level. List of universities using BMAT can be found by clicking here.
Likewise for entering into medical and dental undergraduate schools in UK, one has to undergo UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) which is the selection process adopted by many UK medical and dental schools for granting admissions. User need to attempt an online test which is designed to test the students’ cognitive abilities, their attitudes, their critical thinking, and logical reasoning as well. For examination local centers are being used where online test can be conducted. The test has a multiple choice format. Sample practice questions are available on the official government website. To try this test click on this link: https://www.ukcat.ac.uk/ukcat-test/ukcat-preparation/. The list of UK universities where you can get admission by this examination is also available on the official government website. Click on this link to get the list of universities: https://www.ukcat.ac.uk/ukcat-test/ukcat-universities/.
It has been seen that National Health Service (NHS) prefers Indian doctors. This can be proved by the fact that whenever there is shortage of doctors in UK hospitals, NHS always looks towards Indian subcontinent. In January this year, UK has launched a new placement scheme to bring in doctors from India to plug shortages in the emergency departments of its state-funded National Health Service. In the past NHS had looked towards the Indian sub- continent during severe staff shortages in the 1960s and early 2000s to increase the number of doctors.
So this is good news for all graduate and undergraduate medical students who are looking for options to study and work outside India, as UK is also looking towards you. You can now search for more options in UK pertaining to your medical career.
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