Advantages of studying medicine in Britain
Europe's leader: the world's second largest biomedical market and research and development country.
World-leading: the new drug110, which has been successfully listed in the world, is contributed by Britain.
Large investment in the industry: Britain's biomedical industry is far ahead of other European countries in employment, sales revenue, R&D investment and investment attraction.
There are many employment opportunities for medical majors.
The medical major in Britain is very famous in the world, and many students who are interested in medicine and pharmacy are eager to go to Britain for further study. However, students and parents who want to study surgery, clinical medicine and anesthesiology should pay attention to the fact that if they want to study this major in the UK, they must start studying in senior high schools in the UK, because there is no pre-university course linking medical majors in British universities. Therefore, to study medicine in Britain, if students go abroad in junior high school or high school, they can choose high school to study GCSE and A-Level courses, and then they can study clinical medicine, anesthesiology, surgical medicine and other majors.
If students choose to study pre-university, they can choose pre-university in biochemical science, and then they can choose biomedicine, immunology, pharmacology, biopharmaceutics, medical physiology, genetics, genetics, biopharmaceutics and other majors.
Students studying medical undergraduate in China can choose public health, infectious disease research, rehabilitation physiotherapy, public health, nutrition and other majors if they want to go to the UK for postgraduate study.
There are more than 30 medical schools (comprehensive medical schools and specialized medical schools) in Britain, with about 49,000 graduates every year. Its teaching system is close to our country, and there are many things to learn from it.
General characteristics of medical colleges and universities
1, management
The British Parliament entrusts GMC (British Medical Association) to manage higher medical education, but it does not directly participate in the management work, only plays the role of supervision and inspection, and is responsible for managing the registration of doctors.
Step 2 allow access
Britain doesn't have a unified National Medical College Entrance Examination (MCAT) like China and the United States, but high school graduates (including foreign students) need to apply for admission to medical schools through UCAS (universities and colleges admissions service, www.ucas.ac.uk), and the hospital will decide whether to accept them according to the students' A-level (equivalent to ordinary high schools in China) scores, letters of recommendation, academic intentions and interview performance.
3. Important
Undergraduate courses include degree courses in the following disciplines: nursing, midwifery, hand and foot diseases, physiotherapy, radiation, practicing therapy or other occupations related to medical care. Degree courses include theory and practice. Generally, the academic system lasts for three to four years, while dental and medical degrees require five years of practice.
4. Postgraduate courses
Britain has a comprehensive postgraduate degree program for international students in medicine, dentistry, nursing and all health-related occupations. Among them, nursing professionals are scarce in Europe, America, Australia and other places. At present, the salary of foreign nurses is about ten times that of domestic nurses. For students who want to stay abroad after studying abroad, nursing is undoubtedly a good choice.
Step 5 graduate
There is no unified examination, which is completely decided by the school, but supervised by GMC. Graduates also go to many places, and some continue to study (MPhil or PhD) to engage in research work, not medical work; Others apply for internships (also known as PRHO, pre-registered house officer or JHO, junior house officer). They must register through GMC and apply to NHS (National Health Trust) hospital (that is, public hospital) on their own. Internship period 12 months (paid), 6 months in internal medicine and 6 months in surgery. The above and the following positions are openly contested in 《BMJ (British Medical Journal) and The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) in www.bmj.com.
6. major
Those who pass the internship can apply to GMC for limited registration (that is, practicing medicine under supervision) as SHO (senior internal affairs officer, equivalent to our resident) and receive basic specialist training, which generally lasts for 3 years, and the length of each major varies. After completing the training for a specified number of years, you can apply for membership examination in various professional royal societies represented by RCP (Royal College of Physicians), such as MRCP (Member of Royal College of Physicians) and MRCS (Member of Royal College of Surgeons). Those who pass can receive advanced training as SpR (specialist registrar) (with different years) and practice medicine without supervision. After this stage of training, you can become a consultant (equivalent to the chief physician), and the specialist training will basically come to an end. The rest is CME (Continuing Medical Education). During the whole training period, some people went back to medical school to study for graduate degrees such as MD (Doctor of Medicine) or MS (Master of Surgery) (equivalent to our in-service graduate students). Indeed, few people only receive training without studying for a degree.
Medical schools in British universities have different positions for themselves. For example, the Medical College of Oxford University, which aims at cultivating high-level clinical medical research talents, has maintained a very small enrollment scale, enrolling only 150 students every year. Most medical colleges aim at training clinicians, and clinical practice teaching generally accounts for more than half.