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What qualifications are required to study Medicine in US?

Unlike the medical education in other countries, the US study medicine abroad routine initiates after the completion of the four years under graduation study that includes the science related subjects.

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What qualifications are required to study Medicine in US?

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  1. What qualifications are required to study Medicine in US?

  2. Study Medicine US • Unlike the medical education in other countries, the US study medicine abroad routine initiates after the completion of the four years under graduation study that includes the science related subjects. If so, the Doctor of Medicine will be a regular for year’s course along with the clinical rotations. Hence soon after completing the courseware and clinical rotations, the students can directly move for the Internship or the Residency programs in the US by attending the USMLE Examinations.

  3. Doctor of Medicine • A very few Medical Schools in the US provide the limited programs in the beginning for the high school students or the A or O level students . Students are admitted to the medical universities based on the school credentials and if their performance is satisfactory, they are permitted to get enrolled onto the D Degree which is generally called as the Doctor of Medicinedegree or the program. This program generally takes six or seven years and admission to it is extremely competitive for foreign students.

  4. Requirements to study Medicine • It is to be noted that the foreign students are rendered with very less opportunities to learn medicine in the United States. The enrollment for different programs would be done twice or thrice a year and are generally called as the fall intakes. Also, most of the Medical Universities in the US would require the foreign students who have completed at least two years of the undergraduate program in any of the US Universities.

  5. Requirements to study Medicine • The following criteria will be evaluated by the Medical Schools in getting a student enrolled into a program: • Academic Record from the previous institution • MCAT Scores • Personal Qualities and a lot more

  6. Things to consider • Undergraduate Medicine: If you want to study bachelor’s degree in medicine, you will need to enroll at a medical school, which is part of a university but will have strong links to local hospitals and medical practices. An MBBS or Doctor of Medicine (MD), as medical degrees are known, takes four or five years, with two years pre-clinical and two years clinical.

  7. Eligibility • For four years Doctor of Medicine program, the students with Associate Degree or Diploma in Life Science or any Science background can be enrolled. The first two years will be Preclinical and the last two years will be the Clinical.

  8. Course of Study • For the 5.5 years Doctor of Medicine, Students with Schooling Educations ( A levels or O levels) can get enrolled wherein, the first 18 months will be the Premedical, the next two years will be the Preclinical and the last two years will be the Clinicals.

  9. Internship • In either case, on successful completion of the clinicals, the students can enter into the Internship programs.

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