The training mode of doctors in Canada and the United States: four-year undergraduate course+four-year medical college MD+ three to eight-year clinical internship and hospitalization training = =1~16 years. Medical schools in Canada and the United States have neither undergraduate nor graduate students. The requirements of medical students and graduate students are essentially different, and the admission requirements and learning pressure of graduate students are simply incomparable with those of medical students.
Unlike medical schools in China, you generally have to have at least one bachelor's degree to apply for medical schools in Canada and the United States. The requirements for admission to any medical school are more difficult than other majors. Your first bachelor's degree must be good (GPA must be at least 3.6, that is, at least A-), and your grades are only one aspect. Extracurricular hobbies and long-term volunteer experience are very important, which have high requirements for the applicant's social experience, cultural language and personality. The last stage of the interview is the hardest for me! ! In addition, you must pass the special entrance examination MCAT of medical college with high scores.
Medical college is usually a four-year program. After four years of reading and passing the junior doctor's license, he began to practice as a resident (unable to practice medicine independently). The salary during this internship is very low (about 40 thousand/year), which is also a maddening period. If you just want to be a family health care doctor, you can practice-stay in hospital for 2-3 years. If you want to be a specialist, you must practice-stay in hospital for at least 5 years, and the internship period must be better than the previous medical license, among which neurosurgery and plastic surgery must practice-stay in hospital for 8 years. So it is not difficult for you to understand why the process of becoming a doctor is a long process of spirit, body and perseverance. Compared with China, being a doctor in North America is much stricter, but because of this, the income of doctors, especially their social status, is very high (the average annual salary of family doctors is 6.5438+0.8 million, and that of surgeons ranges from several hundred thousand to more than 6.5438+0.8 million).
Medical schools in Canada and the United States have no restrictions on applicants' first undergraduate major (in fact, applicants with different professional backgrounds are strongly encouraged), but no matter what major, you must complete the first-year courses in biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, English literature and other humanities before applying for medical school. Some medical schools also require the completion of the first year of psychology and the second year of biochemistry. The competition for medical college entrance is in a white-hot state, and there is no hope for college students who are not excellent in all aspects. In the United States and Canada, the profession of doctor is extremely demanding, which requires medical college applicants to be smart, mature, socially responsible, compassionate and sociable, so as to help others. It is not difficult to understand why other majors are required to study for four years. It is best to have several years of work experience after graduating from college before entering medical school.
Due to the high standards and status of doctors, excellent local students in North America are eager for medical schools, and the competition is in a white-hot state. Non-native applicants are obviously at a disadvantage in cultural language and various soft powers, which are very important qualities of medical schools.
Relatively speaking, medical schools in Britain and Australia are more advanced than those in the United States and Canada, and there is no requirement to study for a bachelor's degree first. Therefore, many applicants who were eliminated in the United States and Canada went to medical schools in Britain and Australia (the tuition fees are certainly higher than those in the United States), but they may not be able to return to North America to practice medicine after finishing their studies. Because the North American Medical Association has strict restrictions on doctors who graduated from outside North America to obtain medical licenses, many doctors who graduated from outside North America have to work as taxi drivers, restaurant waiters and factory workers in North America.