Help! What are Practice rights 4 non-residency MDs in Europe

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Can anyone settle this debate on whether a graduate of an MD program in europe, who gets a medical license after recieving the degree, can actually get a job and practice medicine without doing a residency there?

I have called 2 medical schools, Poland and Czech Rep. Each insists that upon graduation, an MD receives a license to practice medicine provided they pass the licensing exam. Residency they say is not needed.

However, when I look to find a job, all the positions request a surgeon, pediatrician, even family medicine specialist. So what kind of doctor job would the non-residency trained doctor get?

The whole thing seems really hard to understand. To top it off, I have been told that there are EU regs that say the doctor must have 5500 hundred hours of clnical training to practice. It would take 2-3 years to get that much training. I think that must be for the specialty.

Anyone shed any light on this? If the non-residency doctor is legally entitled to practice, what kind of medicine can he practice?

 

[DrBacchi]

Depends really where you want to practice, but after medical school you generally either go into specialty training or start practicing general medicine (primary care). Either way you have to work for the government under supervision for some time, 1,5 years in some countries, to get the unrestricted license. Kinda like an "internship". Here it's 9 months in an government outpatient clinic and rest in hospitals and possibly research. The internship time is included in the 5-6yr residency programs if you want to specialize.

There are differences, the UK is a bit different I guess than Scandinavia. So you have to look up the local regulations depending on where you want to practice.