Study medicine in Spain?
The weeding process in Spain is more akin to the program taking 1.5 to twice as long for most students. Rarely does anyone graduate on time. The medical curriculum is six years long, although you might be able to transfer some of your US undergraduate courses as relative did. Basically the first 3 years are basic sciences and the last 3 years are clinical. The tuition is quite reasonable, but the cost of living is expensive.
Medical school in the United States is a graduate, professional school, requiring a 4-year undergraduate degree.That undergraduate degree should be from an American or Canadian school. It is very hard to go to any other school and have it recognized.Your undergraduate degree program should be from a STEM background (biology, chemistry, biochem, physics, engineering/CS) and if you are missing requirements for medical school, you will be expected to supplement that on your own. E.g., if you did a degree in math or physics, you’ll have to take all the o-chem and inorganic and p-chem etc. on your own.You’ll have to write the MCAT.The number of spots for internationals in the US is very low as Dr. Fox mentioned.You’ll have to have a lot of money and/or take out a lot of school loans. (Average Medical School Debt In 2017 - Student Debt Relief : “In 2011, the average medical student debt was $173,000, with the same number, 86%, of graduates carrying debt. The average medical school debt rose to $178,000 in 2012, and by 2016, the average medical school debt was up to $190,000, with about 25% of graduates carrying debts higher than $200,000. While there are no official stats for the average medical school debt for 2017, the average is expected to be even higher.”) Officially: https://members.aamc.org/iweb/up... (AAMC is the Association of American Medical Colleges)
Study medicine in Germany?
According to exam authorities in India, 40% of Indians who graduate from medical schools in India fail. For those who study abroad, the failure rate is nearly double that. Many spend additional years in independent study, repeatedly retaking those exams, and still fail. You are going to have to work in India. You MUST pass those exams. To go to school in Germany, you must be fluent in German at a very high academic-technical level of competence. No 6-month language course is going to be enough to survive med school & living in Germany. First, you have to pass German entrance exams - in GERMAN! - just to get into school there. Why have so many Indians stopped raving on about China & Russia for med school? They're flunking out of Indian medical exams in droves. You will NOT be working as a doctor outside of India. Few countries need foreign doctors, especially not Indians - not even with a German degree. E.g. US hospitals are laying off staff at every level at atrocious rates. There are not enough hospital residencies now anymore even for Americans who graduate from US universities + med school + pass USMLE & get their licensing. International standard is MD degree from a 4-year professional graduate school of medicine (minimum of bachelor's degree required to apply for admission), not mbbs.
For UK.You must be at least 18 years of age and have passed the higher school-leaving certificate with high grades in Biology, Chemistry and preferably Physics. The grades should be equivalent to 80% or higher.Also, you will need to pass the IELTS paper, to show that you can take tuition in English.There is very strong competition for places in medical school in UK. I think there are typically 11 applications for every place, so the schools set a very high admission standard. Having said that, there is a desire on the part of some universities, as well as the British government, to promote medical education for members of the Commonwealth.Good luck.
Can I study medicine in Europe?
Firstly, you may not be saving all that much money - most European universities charge relatively high fees to international (ie. non-EU) students, even if they're cheap or even free to their native students. And living abroad for many years (anything between 6 and 10, depending on where you study) is always going to be more expensive than living in your home country. So do your maths first. Secondly, virtually all medicine courses are taught in the local language of the country in question. If you speak *fluent* Italian and Spanish at an advanced level (by which I don't mean that you're conversationally fluent; I mean you can pick up a scientific textbook and read it from cover to cover and genuinely understand every word) then those countries are on your list of options, as well as of course the UK and Ireland, but that's probably about it. To learn a new language from scratch to a level where you can undertake advanced university studies in it would take you years, so to even think that this is a possibility is to serious underestimate either the complexities of medicine or of language learning or both. Thirdly, you may 'prefer' an MD (for what reason, I wonder - so you can put the letters after your name?), but there are very few if any med schools in Europe that offer that, as MD is a graduate degree and virtually all countries in Europe teach medicine at undergraduate level. And fourthly, if you get your degree in Europe, you cannot go back to the USA to do your internship and specialty training, simply because you won't be able to get a place - there aren't enough for those graduating from US med schools, and there certainly is no provision for overseas graduates, and you will always be behind the US graduates so your chances are basically zero. And at the same time you would also struggle to do the training in the country where you studied, because you probably won't have (or be able to get) a work permit, and the language barrier would again kick in. And let's say you did manage to do all that, and to qualify in say Croatia - you wouldn't then be able to go back to the USA and start practising, you would have to re-qualify there, possibly doing some additional studies first. For all those reasons I would say yes, in theory you can study medicine in Europe, but in practice not.
Do you think studying Medicine in China is a good idea?? :)?
The education quality? The people? reputation? Note: that i'm going to be studying Medicine in English. And i'm not from India nor any country in that area :),I'm from Saudi Arabia. Studying medicine in my country requires very very high marks such as 99-100%. 97-98% if you're lucky. I got 97.5% and i was not accepted in the good universities of Medicine in my country. But i was able to get a scholarship abroad. And i was thinking, is China a good choice? I'm going to the ministry of health tomorrow to ask them whether the degree from China is acceptable or not. Other countries such as US, UK and Australia are very hard to get into, and the places for international students are very limited. So Would someone suggest if China a good choice? and any other suggestions are welcomed :)
In order to practice clinical medicine in an unsupervised setting (i.e. outside postgraduate training programs), all physicians (international graduates and domestic graduates in USA) must be licensed by the medical licensing board of the state where they plan to practice.Requirements for become a licensed doctor
You will first be required to take four years of undergraduate university (or college) education, including getting very high marks on science courses, and get a high overall GPA. You can "major" in anything you want to, as long as you take the required courses.Medical schools in the US typically require the essential pre-medical science courses (with concurrent laboratory experience) to be completed at an accredited US (or Canadian) college or university.The required science courses usually include:Chemistry I and II (2 semesters, or 1 full year)Organic chemistryBiology I and II (or zoology)BiochemistryPhysics I and IIYou will take the MCAT Medcal College Admission Test during your third or fourth year of undergraduate study, prior to applying for medical school admission. Again, a high score is essential.After the MCAT, you apply for admission to US medical schools, most of which have a 4 to 6% acceptance rate. Elite schools have a lower acceptance rate.As long as you have a student visa, you are considered an international student. As an international student, there are extremely limited scholarship opportunities available to you in the US. It would be better to get scholarships or loans in your country that allow you to use the funds at US universities for both your undergraduate and medical school education. A US medical school might accept 1 or 2 international students per year, and require them to prove in advance that they can pay for four years of medical school before they enroll. The average cost of US medical school fees is $40,000 to $50,000 USD per year for four years. Living expenses are not included in school fees.
American hospitals prefer taking trainees who've qualified in the States. It's also easier to get a job in America as a trainee surgeon and other specialities if you have an American medical degree. The recruiter is familiar with the US medical degree syllabus for a start, so knows what you've done and haven't done. Foreign trained doctors in British hospitals tend to get the jobs the British trained doctors don't want. Eg. Mental health, & Geriatrics. It's hard for women to get jobs as trainee surgeons in the UK. Lots of female doctors in the UK work part time while raising their own children.