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Does being a 4 year practicionar have a negative effect?



 
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PostPosted : Wed Sep 27, 2006    Post subject:

Does being a 4 year practicionar have a negative effect?

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Hello, I'm a newbie on this site and have a question. I'm at the moment in my 5th year of medical education and am thinking of having USMLE exam to have a graduation on internal medicine, however I can't say that I'm a hardworking student and wasted most of my time with social activities during my past years of medical education, so I'm in need of studying some medicine from sources like Kaplan to preapare for USMLE. In my country, we have a about one year governmental service as practitionars and also a military service to be completed and after those we have permission for further medical education like internal medicine clerkship.

This means I shall be able to have USMLE exam passed after about 3 or 4 years of my graduation from my medical faculty. May I be admitted to those programs after passing USMLE as a 4 year old practitionar? Does this have a negative effect on my being admitted by any of the internal medicine clercships of united states of america or britain?

Or is it not important how many years have passed after your graduation?

As a further question, is it true that the universities of britain only admit american students for post USMLE medical assistant or clercship graduation and make it hard for the USMLE successors of other countries to be admitted as an internal medicine assistant? For instance I'm a medical student in Istanbul, turkey.

Thanks for any help.
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Onyouare wrote:
Hello, I'm a newbie on this site and have a question. I'm at the moment in my 5th year of medical education and am thinking of having USMLE exam to have a graduation on internal medicine, however I can't say that I'm a hardworking student and wasted most of my time with social activities during my past years of medical education, so I'm in need of studying some medicine from sources like Kaplan to preapare for USMLE. In my country, we have a about one year governmental service as practitionars and also a military service to be completed and after those we have permission for further medical education like internal medicine clerkship.

This means I shall be able to have USMLE exam passed after about 3 or 4 years of my graduation from my medical faculty. May I be admitted to those programs after passing USMLE as a 4 year old practitionar? Does this have a negative effect on my being admitted by any of the internal medicine clercships of united states of america or britain?

Or is it not important how many years have passed after your graduation?

As a further question, is it true that the universities of britain only admit american students for post USMLE medical assistant or clercship graduation and make it hard for the USMLE successors of other countries to be admitted as an internal medicine assistant? For instance I'm a medical student in Istanbul, turkey.

Thanks for any help.

I think there is some confusion in your mind. US uses USMLE for residency training positions, whereas UK uses PLAB.

There is slight less preference for older candidates, that being said, older I mean 40-50 year old doctors. But people wait long to come to US after graduation are probably doing something useful like practice or research.

In regards to question regarding PLAB, there are lot of recent rule changes. If you are from Turkey or EU countries, you would have greater advantage to get a position in UK.
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Is it necessary firstly to get internal medicine residency in britain to be a cardiolog? I mean do you have to take internal medicine residency firstly and cardiology residency secondly? And do you know how long do the internal medicine residency and cardiology residency take to complete? In united states I think both lasts for 3 years each. Is it same in britain?

I know that turkey is a eu candidate and has not yet been a member yet. In this condition shall I be classified as a practitioner from a eu country according to recent rule changes you have talked about, or shall my chance to be granted for a residency very decreased and as low as an IMG from a non-eu country in britain?

Do you think that I have no chance of being a cardiolog in united states as an IMG, and shouldn't prepare for usmle if I want to be a cardiolog as it shall be a waste of time in this condition?
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