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To date, following qualifications are eligible for registration with General Medical Council (GMC) of the United Kingdom (UK) without any other exam: [4]. Anaesthesia; In addition, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) recognizes this qualification for registration as a specialist, and in Saudi Arabia, as a consultant in any specialty.
Critics argue that the UK’s limited medical school capacity exacerbates workforce shortages in the NHS and forces students to seek education abroad. Some experts have proposed increasing government support for international training pathways, where students study at accredited European medical schools and return to work in the NHS.
An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development survey in December 2015 showed that 35.4% of NHS doctors, 34,000, were born abroad compared with 5% in Italy, 10.7% in Germany and 19.5% in France. The UK was the second highest exporter of doctors, second only to Germany, with 17,000 British doctors working in other OECD countries.
Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996); Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)
The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS, pronounced em-tass) was an on-line application system set up under the auspices of Modernising Medical Careers in 2007 and used for the selection of Foundation House Officers and Specialty Registrars, and allocating them to jobs in the UK. [1]
Whilst historically they have been termed "NCCG" or "middle grade doctors", this is problematic and seen as a bullying and harassment term these days. The preferred term is SAS doctor. [1] The staff grade was closed to new entrants from 1 April 2008 when many in this grade moved to the new 'Specialty Doctors' grade. This move was optional and ...
Medical doctors by specialty and nationality (46 C) * Fictional medical specialists (12 C, 22 P) A. Addiction physicians (7 C) Allergologists (18 P) Anatomists (11 C ...
A foundation doctor is a grade of medical practitioner in the United Kingdom undertaking the Foundation Programme, a two-year, general postgraduate medical training programme which forms the bridge between medical school and specialist/general practice training.