Become a Doctor is 4 years?

[Opara]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 17 September 2017 at 14:52

[Piersman2]

Sounds wrong to me.
My daughter did a 3 year degree in biology, and is now doing 4 years of medicine. that gets her basic doctor qualification.

[paulmakin]

no, definitely not. basic "standard" degree in medicine is 5 years which includes the pre-medical courses. then you have foundation years 1 and 2 (F1, F2) then speciality training (either "run through" or core training - CT, typically 2 years but not necessarily so). then higher specialities.

standard dentist training is 5 years, a combination of under and post graduate study with the option to extend training in more specialised dentistry

edited - just a thought, do they mean an additional year to become a GMC registered doctor or do they mean completing a doctorate? i think that could be done with a years additional study post Master's level degree

paul

[acd80]

Sounds like Graduate Entry Medicine. They run the course in Swansea Uni. I briefly looked at it previously but it's far too much hard work!

http://www.swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/med...

[mph1977]

Opara said:

Hi, I was talking to someone the other day at a party who works in the medical field , something to do with eyes or ears.They said they did a 3 year degree to get into their field but as it's so specialised they only need one more year of study to become a doctor?

Is this right or were they bullstting me?

bullst


5 years regular entry ( 6 with intercalated extra degree) ...

4 years with an eligible for grad entry Bachelors / Masters ...

[mph1977]

Opara said:

It's actually an audilogist, I remembered.If you did a degree in audiology could you then become a doctor with only 1 year additional?

still 4 years regardless of any Health Professional registration via grad entry route - even for the dentalists

[Flying machine]

mph1977 said:

Opara said:

Hi, I was talking to someone the other day at a party who works in the medical field , something to do with eyes or ears.They said they did a 3 year degree to get into their field but as it's so specialised they only need one more year of study to become a doctor?

Is this right or were they bullstting me?

bullst


5 years regular entry ( 6 with intercalated extra degree) ...

4 years with an eligible for grad entry Bachelors / Masters ...

This

[sjabrown]

mph1977 said:

bullst


5 years regular entry ( 6 with intercalated extra degree) ...

4 years with an eligible for grad entry Bachelors / Masters ...

This. This is what gets you on to the GMC register. Very few exceptions to this e.g someone starting a medical degree abroad.