All usmle steps taken 7 years
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Perhaps you decide to become a doctor in the UK, you meet the woman of your dreams during your ‘house job’, get married, have kids, one of whom goes on to become the Prime Minister of the UK. Likewise, once you have made the decision and picked one of these countries, you will still never know for sure whether you made the ‘right’ decision, because you’ll never know what the alternative in the other country would have been like! You will never be able to control all of these, so don’t paralyse yourself with endless hypotheticals. The question you are trying to answer is, “will I have a happier and more fulfilling life in the UK or in the US?” There are millions of different variables, life events, pure chance, that can make it so that your decision to live in either of these countries is a fantastic one or a horrible mistake. It’s natural for us as humans, and more specifically for us medical students/doctors, to want to logically weigh up all the factors and reach the ‘right’ answer - it’s what we’ve been trained to do! But, what we have to acknowledge right from the outset, is that there is no wrong answer. I think this is the first thing to realise. So, in our modern times, how should one approach making the decision of where to go and therefore which of these above exams to start studying for? There is no ‘wrong’ answer Even from my dad’s generation, his entire graduating class from Khyber Medical College in Pakistan would basically split into thirds between staying in Pakistan, going to the UK, or going to the US. Undoubtedly, if you’re from countries like Pakistan, India, the UAE or those in North Africa, you will have hundreds of examples of seniors from your medical school who have pursued both the UK and the US route. For the vast, vast majority of you, that means making the following choice should I do the USMLE, or should I do the PLAB?įor those who are unaware, the PLAB exam (Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board) is the medical licensing exam required for foreign doctors who want to work in the UK, and the USMLE is the US Medical Licensing Exam (thus the name). You’ve either completed your MBBS or are about to, and now you want to go work in another country.
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So, you’re a doctor/medical student from a country other than the UK.