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Chinese terms are never precise and with shoddy reporting nowadays so widespread in the press and a general public unwilling to crosscheck sources no wonder forum sometimes could unwittingly becomes a source of misinformation.
The British still welcome foreign medical graduates to practise on their turf though with less open arms nowadays, the door is ajar for international medical graduates but remains wide open for home-reared foreign graduates and its here that Chinese terms 外國醫生, 海外醫生 etc. fail to make the distinction. The rule is simple, if one’s primary qualification is from outside the UK, EU and Switzerland, the process to gain registration is full of red tapes and burdened with a common entrance examination - the PLAB ( Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board ) test with IELTS thrown in for those whose native language is not English ( hence those from medical schools in Australia, NZ would only need PLAB but those from HK would also require IELTS in addition ). Foreign graduates from UK medical schools sail down a path similar to an average Brit and compete for a place in a two-year internship, named Foundation Year ( FY ) 1 and 2 respectively on an extended Tier 4 visa, normally granted without much fuss from Home Office as this forms part of the necessary post graduate training, and after FY 1 one is eligible to change from provisional to full registration with the General Medical Council ( GMC ). Normally the number of post available is commensurate with the number of new graduates in that particular year, give or take the occasional glitch. Core Training post which normally last for 2 years follows FY 2 and one has to switch to a Tier 2 visa for such post. Success rate for switching visa is almost 100% for first-time applicants if they have been offered such posts.
For those wishing to continue their specialty training in the UK beyond FY the bottleneck lies at changing from a Core Training ( CT ) post to a Specialty Training Post ( ST ) - the competition is most intense here and successful candidates normally would have passed the membership exams, have at least a few publications and presentations on their CV and for more competitive specialty like Surgery, additional qualifications like MSc, MD or even PhD are becoming increasingly desirable, especially for teaching hospital posts. It is not uncommon for doctors to combine a few years of research in related fields during their core training period. To sail straight from FY to CT and eventually to ST is not unheard of but usually such opportunity is reserved for those with fabulous CVs from the onset - many distinctions and prizes during medical schools together with stellar references. Otherwise most doctors do normally have to languish between different CT posts in related fields for a while. For non-EU graduates of UK medical schools, the difficulty used to arise here as it was difficult to renew a Tier 2 visa again changing between CT posts or progressing towards ST posts as they were only considered if there were no suitable home or EU graduates available - but thanks to recent lobbying by the British Medical Association ( BMA ) on behalf of foreign graduates of British medical schools, this restriction known as resident labour market test (RLMT) will no longer be in place for them from Aug 2015 onwards. The game is now merit-based without any more red tapes for this category of 外國醫生.
Foreign graduates of UK medical schools to gain equal access to specialty training, says BMA http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20020383
Put it simply, Full Registration should be the norm as it always has been unless one really did poorly at medical schools with unfavourable references following their FY posts. For those wishing to remain in UK to specialise, the game is now fairer once again without them being penalized. After CT posts most of them would have been legally remained in UK for 9 years anyway, in other words, they could apply to become British Citizens and be on equal footing as their local or EU peers are in another year's time. For those who had attended an intercalated course they would have been in the UK for 10 years exactly and probably have already applied to become a naturalized subject so this new ruling would make no difference to them .
The basic salary maxes out at around £70,000 for trainee doctors and around £100,000 for specialist consultants who prefer not to do any private work. As the training would take a minimum of 7 years to complete following FY 2 and doctors are unheard of to practise privately upon full registration unlike HK if immediate monetary gain is what one is looking after I am afraid he or she would be better suited to remain in HK.
This is what I glimpsed from cruising through documents widely available from GMC, Home Office, deaneries etc. on the net, and my understanding so far is that it hasn’t changed significantly from what it used to be from the late 80s when a classmate of mine who went on a Prince Phillip Scholarship to Cambridge to study medicine after A level and who has decided to remain in UK ever since working as a consultant in one of the teaching hospitals. His salary last time we chatted was in excess of £200,000 and he isn’t a top dog in his field. Top earners could make significantly more than this - it largely depends on how much private work they could attract and are willing to do as a consultant and whether they have merit awards. One of his trainee colleague from London went on to specialise in pharmaceutical medicine ( a specialty not available in HK as far as I Know ) and is now a senior vice president in drug development at Pfizer working in Boston, US. With stock option and other bonus he is close to 800,000 USD per annum. The pay is lower to start with for trainees but once one becomes a consultant, it is altogether a whole new ball game.
Just my 2 cents and I hope this would debunk some myth and helps those who want to study medicine in the UK. |
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