If you want to be a clinician in Canada, you may be disappointed, because most Canadian medical schools don't consider international students at all! Although I know that the University of Toronto, McMaster University, McGill University and Memorial University will consider international students in principle, in the past 40 years, no international student from China has ever been admitted to Canadian medical schools, and only a few international students have been taken away by American and British students. But if you want to be a graduate, master or doctor in basic medicine, it's not difficult.

In the United States and Canada, there are no undergraduate and master degrees (only doctors) in clinical medicine. Medical college applicants have completed undergraduate courses and many basic medical courses before entering medical college, and then enter medical college for intensive study and training; In the United States and Canada, only those who train clinicians are called "medical schools"; The training of basic medical postgraduates (master of science, doctor) is called "graduate school"; Postgraduates' degrees (Master of Science, Doctor of Science) and clinicians' degrees (Doctor of Medicine) are completely different. In the United States and Canada, doctors of medicine (MD, DO) can engage in clinical and scientific research at the same time, while doctors of science (PhD) can only engage in scientific research, not be a doctor. The gold content, difficulty and salary level of the two degrees are very different!

The training mode of doctors in Canada and the United States: four-year undergraduate course+four-year medical school MD/DO+ three to seven years of clinical practice and hospitalization training = = 1 1 ~ 15 years. Unlike medical schools in China, you generally have to have at least one undergraduate degree from the United States or Canada to apply for medical schools in Canada and the United States. In Canada and the United States, the admission requirements of any medical school are more difficult than those of other majors. Medical schools in Canada, especially those in Ontario, are the most difficult to get into in the world. Your first bachelor's degree must be good (GPA must be at least 3.8, which is basically A-level), and you must have completed the freshman/sophomore courses in biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, advanced mathematics, English literature and humanities. Some medical schools also require you to complete your sophomore courses in medical genetics and biochemistry before applying for medical school. Achievement is 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. The four-year tuition fee for international medical students varies from university to university, but it is about180,000 ~ 260,000 US dollars (clinical medical schools generally do not provide scholarships). If you add living expenses and insurance, you need at least 300,000-350,000 dollars. But money is generally not something that everyone is worried about. The key difficulty is how to get into medical school smoothly!

Medical college is generally a four-year program. After four years of study and obtaining a primary license, you are eligible to become an internship resident. The salary during this internship is very low (about 50 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 become a specialist, you must practice-stay in hospital for at least 5 years, and you must pass the final medical license and stay in hospital during the internship, among which neurosurgery and plastic surgery must practice-stay in hospital for 7 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.

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 easier to enter than those in the United States and Canada, so many applicants who have been eliminated in the United States and Canada go to medical schools in Britain and Australia (the tuition fees are higher than those in the United States), but they may not 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 to make a living.

Many domestic doctors can't go to clinical medical schools after coming to Canada, so they have to study MSc and PhD, but they can only do basic medical research in the laboratory, and they can't be regarded as medical students in medical schools. When they return to China, they may say that they are doctors of medicine, but this is not the case. In fact, their income and status are far from those of doctors.