What are the common ways for doctors to study abroad?

• by EVOMT
• 2023-02-24

Physicians studying abroad, and studying medicine abroad has always been a way for many medical students or doctors to improve their abilities. So how do doctors apply for studying abroad? What are the ways to study medicine abroad? EVO Medical brings everyone to take a look at the following article!

1、 Taking the MCAT exam directly to the United States to study clinical medicine is said to be not easy, there are no scholarships, and tuition fees are very expensive. And if the previous study in China was clinical, it would be equivalent to repeating the study for 5 years.

2、 After completing the first two parts of USMLE (formerly known as ECFMG) in China and completing the CSA part in the United States, you can begin your residency career.

3、 Taking the GRE and TOEFL, I went to the United States to study for a PhD, which is often referred to as turning to basics. Future development direction: Work in basic fields, or practice medicine in the United States after completing the USMLE exam after having a certain foundation.

4、 For one to two years of study abroad on a public assignment, it is necessary to achieve the position of attending physician in a tertiary first-class hospital. This is the case for most professors returning from overseas studies in hospitals.

Hospital doctors often lack opportunities to communicate and improve with the outside world due to their busy work on their posts, making many aspiring doctors feel like they are stuck in a rut. Therefore, even a short year of visiting scholars is enough for them to broaden their horizons, increase their experience, improve their academic skills, and break through bottlenecks.

As we all know, hospital doctors need to improve from practice and follow up on the world's advanced technology in a timely manner to benefit more patients. Therefore, they are also very suitable for going to the United States, which has the world's top medical atmosphere, to seek experience.

Before preparing to apply for studying abroad as a visiting scholar, doctors must ensure that they have the following three basic conditions:

1、 Visiting Scholar Invitation Letter

An invitation letter from a school or mentor is required.

This is relatively simple. For doctors, there are many opportunities to communicate with international medical tutors. During any communication activity, you can leave the contact information of the professor at the school or hospital you want to go to, and take a photo by the way, so that he can remember you when contacting in the future, and you can basically obtain an invitation from the other party. However, after receiving an invitation letter, it is best to send it to the fund committee, preferably to the professor or director of the other party or the person in charge of a certain direction. If it is only an attending, the fund committee's reviewers will consider the level too low and reject it.

2、 English scores

This is a necessary skill for communication.

In particular, it is necessary to have proof of English proficiency through official visits abroad. According to the 2017 Foreign Language Qualification Statement for the National Public Visiting Scholar Category, applicants can take the WSK-5 exam as long as they pass. The WSK-5 exam is a very small group of people who are either preparing to apply for visiting scholars or applying for joint training for master's and doctoral degrees. In short, they are basically university personnel.

Secondly, applicants can take the IELTS or TOEFL test, which requires 6.5 points, while the TOEFL online test scores 95 points. At least these two scores are fairly standard and will not be ridiculed by WSK. Of course, it is more conducive for visiting scholars to communicate abroad. WSK-5 is sometimes not recognized abroad.

3、 Visiting Scholar Research Program

To apply for a visiting scholar, you must act like a scholar, and you must write a research plan that is scholarly in style.

Although you may be traveling abroad to visit clinics and learn surgery, and want to improve your clinical and clinical English skills, you cannot mention these in the visiting scholar's study plan, as they appear to the reviewers to be superficial things. The country allows you to study abroad, hoping that after you return, you can bridge the gap between your major and the international field, and have great confidence in you! Therefore, the research plan written by the applicant must emphasize their current advantages, but now they have encountered bottlenecks. Therefore, they need to visit abroad to learn and communicate to break through the bottleneck!