Read the guidance here:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/join-the-register/before-you-apply
https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/join-the-register/before-you-apply
1. Medical school
Ensure your school is the world directory.
Ensure your school is the world directory.
The link is mentioned here:
Give BSC English (if possible- not a requirement) before graduation. Pre-graduate degrees get you more points in your interviews when you apply for training posts in the NHS.
Please note that this is not a requirement and you should not worry if you cannot get it. I personally do not have it and I know a lot of other colleague who do not have it either yet we all got into training posts easily.
2. House job (one year internship)
Ensure this is according to the guidance here:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/join-the-register/before-you-apply/check-if-your-practical-training-internship-is-acceptable
Ensure this is according to the guidance here:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/join-the-register/before-you-apply/check-if-your-practical-training-internship-is-acceptable
3. During/after your house job
IELTS/OET
https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/join-the-register/before-you-apply/evidence-of-your-knowledge-of-english
IELTS/OET
https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/join-the-register/before-you-apply/evidence-of-your-knowledge-of-english
4. After your house job
PLAB
Please note that from 2024, UKMLA will be introduced:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/medical-licensing-assessment
PLAB
Please note that from 2024, UKMLA will be introduced:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/medical-licensing-assessment
5. Get registered with the GMC
6. Apply for jobs
6. Apply for jobs
7. Start working as a non trainee SHO
Other things which can help while you are in your home country:
1. Continue working in a private hospital after completing your house job.
Sometimes, the GMC registration and PLAB exams can take long ( as evidenced in the COVID pandemic, exams were cancelled and then post poned). Continuing to work in your home country will help prevent you becoming frustrated and losing hope.
1. Continue working in a private hospital after completing your house job.
Sometimes, the GMC registration and PLAB exams can take long ( as evidenced in the COVID pandemic, exams were cancelled and then post poned). Continuing to work in your home country will help prevent you becoming frustrated and losing hope.
2. Charity work
Helping deserving people will help you in ways you cannot even imagine. So help as many people as you can. Teach, run clinics, support deserving students, teach struggling medical students. There is so much to do there.
Helping deserving people will help you in ways you cannot even imagine. So help as many people as you can. Teach, run clinics, support deserving students, teach struggling medical students. There is so much to do there.
3. When you have enough time, give an UK based post graduate exam like MRCP 1/MRCS A.
It may not help you get a job but it will definitely help in easy career progression especially when you are in training. I gave my MRCP 1 in my home country, before PLAB 1 :
http://omarsguidelines.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-i-gave-plab-after-mrcp-one.html
http://omarsguidelines.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-i-gave-plab-after-mrcp-one.html
This way, when I started in the NHS, I gave my MRCP 2 10 months into my first job as a non trainee SHO and only had PACES to give during my training SHO post.
However remember than PLAB/UKMLA takes priority over anything else so do not lose focus on that.
4. Enjoy the lovely countryside and mountains of your home country and do regular trips. Explore your country as much as possible.
I hope this post helps. Let me know if you would like any further information
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