A Comparison of the Different Paths to becoming a Doctor in Africa, North America and Asia
A doctor or a physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, the science and art of healing.
The doctor’s profession encompasses promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.
They may opt to become general practitioners that focus on the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families and communities but they can also opt to become specialist medical practitioners who focus on specialist medical practitioners.
A medicine course may vary on its curriculum depending on many factors including the region, field of specialization, target degrees, however, the common element being shared by physicians is the oath of the ethics of medicine require that physicians show consideration, compassion and benevolence for their patients.
How to Become a Doctor in Africa
In Africa, Medical education takes a 6-year curriculum for undergraduate students proceeding from secondary education. However, some regions offer a graduate entry medical program to admit students with mainly science related degrees into a four year medical school program. Normally, the first 3 years of medical school cover the basic medical sciences, while the last 3 years are focused on clinical sciences. Unlike most other countries that required a premedical 4-year degree, medicine in Africa only requires completion of the secondary degree.
Admission depends on the score of the applicant in his last 2 years of Secondary Schools or in his general average in his previous science related degree. At the end of the 6-year term, the student is granted a MB BCh, Bachelor of Medicine or Bachelor of Surgery. After graduating, there is a mandatory full-time internship that varies in terms from 1 year to 2 year to 3 year housemanships. The internship is required to be taken in University or Government Teaching hospitals accredited by the medical school. After which medical licensure as a General Practitioner (GP) is obtained. Then, more often than not, the doctor has to register with the regulating council or any regulating agency in whichever region he is desiring to practice his profession.
How to Become a Doctor in North America
Medical Education in North America can be the lengthiest and hardest among other countries that offer medical education. The medical students are required to:
- complete a premedical course, often one of the biological sciences, which would attain them a bachelor’s degree.
- This would qualify them for a four-year medical school.
- After completing the medical school, they take a residency of 2-4 years.
- Then, they take fellowship before they take the board certification and license.
- After such, they may pursue continuing medical education for any specialization that they prefer.
How to Become a Doctor in Asia
In Asia, a medicine course can take additional four years after a four year post secondary education, granting there is an accumulated set number of units in biology, chemistry, physics, and math, to ensure a foundation for a premedical background. Admission may require some national admission test depending on the region. The four year proper medical course that normally takes a curriculum on basic subjects that are taken up in the first and second years and clinical sciences that are studied in the second and third years. In the last year, students rotate in the various hospital departments, spending equal time for each in the fields of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics, and other specialties. After this, students graduate with a Doctorate in Medicine and apply for postgraduate internship in an accredited hospital of their choice. After post graduate internship, the student is eligible to take the Medical Licensure Examination, which when passed, confers the right to practice medicine as well as to apply in a Residency Training Program.
SCHOLARSHIP IMPLICATIONS SUMMARY
- So if you are searching for a medical scholarship in North America or Asia you are NOT searching at the undergraduate level.
- You must first obtain a four year bachelor degree in related field (sometimes called pre-med)
- If you have done that already then you are looking for a scholarship to Medical School.
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My dear sir/madam, this bedilu from ethiopia. I am now grade 12 student and i will have completed my preparatory level education by the end may this year. I am the most clever of all students in our schoo. I scored GPA of 4.00 out 4.00 in grade 10 matriculation exam and i scored 96.5% in grade 11. I am particularly good at maths, biology,chemistryphysics. Now i am exterimly interested in attending my further education in mddicine since from the very beginning of my child hood i have a dream to be an internationally respected and recognised doctor who works to save the percious human life. Please i kindly request you to invite me to joine your institution. Thank you in advance!
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I am young man interested in enrolling in America to study medicine through a scholarship so i have been throwing in applications here and though but information on medicine scholarships has almost been impossible to find. I am already about to complete my B.Sc in Applied Biology & Biochemistry at the National University of Science & Technology in Zimbabwe in May 2012. My desire would be to get something to start on before the end of the year.
Thank you for your assistance.
Dear madam or sir
my name is Daniel Yirgu. I have degree in field of medical laboratory science in 2009. I want to lear medicine any where. I’m waiting for your reply. For more contact me at danny.koo@hotmail.com or tel 251912828738
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Please i am a Ghanaian and a final year medical laboratory technology student. I have a current GPA of 3.2 out of 4. I am completing a programme of three-year study in the next two months. Please i am 23 years old. It is my biggest dream to study medicine in Cuba so that i can be a good doctor someday. Please Sir/Madam, my entire education has been a struggle due to lack of financial strength from my family. I completed my senior high school by a government scholarship. But for this scholarship i would not find myself where i am now, it has only been by the grace of God.
Please, i have a great passion when it comes to health matters but lack the financial strength. Please help me with this scholarship so that i can be a blessing to the less privilege in soceity and to my family since no one in my entire family has attained such educational height.
Thank you and God richly bless you for His work.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please i am a Ghanaian and a final year medical laboratory technology student. I have a current GPA of 3.2 out of 4. I am completing a programme of three-year study in the next two months. Please i am 23 years old. It is my biggest dream to study medicine in Cuba or any other country so that i can be a good doctor someday. Please Sir/Madam, my entire education has been a struggle due to lack of financial strength from my family. I completed my senior high school by a government scholarship. But for this scholarship i would not find myself where i am now, it has only been by the grace of God.
Please, i have a great passion when it comes to health matters but lack the financial strength. Please help me with this scholarship so that i can be a blessing to the less privilege in soceity and to my family since no one in my entire family has attained such educational height.
Thank you and God richly bless you for His work.
Dear sir/madam
I am a 29 year old swazi with a diploma in general nursing and a post diploma certificate in mental health nursing.i want to be a medical doctor and in serious need of financial support.my address is box 129 ezulwini,swaziland my cell number is +268 76053687.i will greatly appreciate your support
sir i want get admission in mbbs on scholarship
I am tsegaab from Ethiopia so I need to study medicine.anyone who help me please contact:tsegaabfanaye@yahoo.com
I want to study medice .This year i will finish Bsc in health science.
I am a young adult aged 19 and completed my high school at a national school in 2011.My dream is to become a surgeon please help me.your response will be appreciated with honour.
Hi am edwin from Kenya and i completed my High school last year and managed to pass with grade A-.My dream career is to be a DOCTOR and i have got a great passion in doing the course though my parents are financialy unstable.I am looking for a full course schoolarship to do the course in Canada,America,Germany,Asia or anywhere in the world.I would appreciate if you consider me.Thank you.contacts +2547209282345
Iam a Tanzanian male aged 20,curently not enrolled at any institution.graduated from secondary school in feb.2012 with dreams of persuing higher education in the field of health and allied science,if there is a chance for me to be awarded a scholarship i shall be grateful.contact 255 718 198 744
yours sincerely…
Richard machage from Tanzania, East Africa.
sir
i want get to admission in mbbs on scholarship.
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my mobile no 03003888006