At the moment, yes, a UK grad from anywhere can get training, at least for the first couple of years. You would find it much more difficult after this.
Does difficult mean impossible? Do you know any Americans that have successfully done it? Thanks.
A US citizen that was a US grad would essentially find it impossible to get any training job in the UK. Not so long ago these rules were slightly different in that even if you went to school in the UK, if you weren't an EU citizen you couldn't get a job. I wouldn't be surprised if we went back to that at some point.
I am a little confused here. Are you saying that they might reinstate rules that would not allow me to train, even though I would currently be allowed?
In my experience things are very different in the 2 countries, even in terms of what personalities go for what specialties. The expectations are different but probably equal in terms of difficulty. Hours will vary depending on specialty. Technically only a certain number of hours are legal but this is never stuck to and because it's the NHS and there are massive staff shortages even though we probably do less hours overall the hours are much busier. This is my experience though, I have obviously seen a lot of specialties in the UK at a lot of hospitals but have only spent time in one specialty (a surgical sub-specialty) in one hospital in the US. It was a major centre for the specialty I was in though. The juniors were far less busy than ours in the same specialty but it really varied with the attendings. In terms of call, once you reach a certain level in the UK, 3rd specialty year which is the 5th post grad year you are on call from home. From what I saw in the US you can only be on call from home once you are an attending, US training is a lot shorter though so the time to get to being an attending isn't that long.
