Will the UK recognize US postgraduate medical training?

[DarkProtoman]

Will the UK GMC's PMETB recognize US postgraduate medical training? Like, if have a residency in categorical internal medicine from Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in hematology/medical oncology from The Mayo Clinic, and am board certified by the ABIM in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology, would I be eligible for registration w/ the GMC, and entered on the specialist register as a consultant physician, haematologist, and medical oncologist? Would I have to take the PLAB and MRCP exams --does the RCP of London accept ABIM board-certification as equivalent to Membership?--? Or would I have to settle for being an associate specialist, and not on the specialist register? Is a doctor having a US categorical internal medicine residency, and board certified by the ABIM, eligible for entry on the GP Register, entry on the specialist register as a consultant physician, both, or neither? Will the UK accept the ABIM Research Pathway board certification? Thanks!

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[skatertudoroga]

Hello could somoene please answer HIS questions. I googled the exact same questions and found no answers... Also is there any difference between UK and Ireland. Thanks.

 

[bambi]

If you are an attending your training would be recognized and you could apply for consultant jobs. If you decided to come halfway through residency your training would not be recognized and at best you would start as an F2 which is our second general postgrad year so the year before you pick a specialty. Not sure about fellowship stuff, here a fellowship is a pretty different thing. Here when we complete training and are eligible for consultant jobs we get a CCT - certificate of completed training. If you get something similar after residency but before fellowship or in the middle then I guess you would be eligible for consultant jobs. Basically come at the start of your training or when you are done. If you just want to do a year here fellowships are easy to get but they are not really seen as a good thing here. You do a fellowship if you can't get a training job and you are not the priority when it comes to interesting cases, the trainees who actually need to do certain things will get the good cases and you will be stuck doing the boring stuff.

 

[skatertudoroga]

If you are an attending your training would be recognized and you could apply for consultant jobs. If you decided to come halfway through residency your training would not be recognized and at best you would start as an F2 which is our second general postgrad year so the year before you pick a specialty. Not sure about fellowship stuff, here a fellowship is a pretty different thing. Here when we complete training and are eligible for consultant jobs we get a CCT - certificate of completed training. If you get something similar after residency but before fellowship or in the middle then I guess you would be eligible for consultant jobs. Basically come at the start of your training or when you are done. If you just want to do a year here fellowships are easy to get but they are not really seen as a good thing here. You do a fellowship if you can't get a training job and you are not the priority when it comes to interesting cases, the trainees who actually need to do certain things will get the good cases and you will be stuck doing the boring stuff.

wow thank you! and are all the specialties recognized or only some of them?
i.e. general internal medicine residency would be 3yrs in usa.
cardiology is IM+3yr fellowship.
anesthesiology is 4yrs or +1 to get fellowship in something like critical care or cardiac anesthesia.
neurology is 4yrs. can all of them work as consultants anywhere in the UK?

 

[bambi]

wow thank you! and are all the specialties recognized or only some of them?
i.e. general internal medicine residency would be 3yrs in usa.
cardiology is IM+3yr fellowship.
anesthesiology is 4yrs or +1 to get fellowship in something like critical care or cardiac anesthesia.
neurology is 4yrs. can all of them work as consultants anywhere in the UK?

I'm not really sure what you are asking? We have the same specialties you do, well except trauma surgery as it's own thing. If you need to do a fellowship to count as fully trained in an area in the US you will need to do the same to work here. As for working as a consultant, if you are fully trained you are eligible but we don't just get consultant jobs because we have finished. We have very limited numbers of posts and to get one another consultant basically has to retire or die.

 

[skatertudoroga]

I'm not really sure what you are asking? We have the same specialties you do, well except trauma surgery as it's own thing. If you need to do a fellowship to count as fully trained in an area in the US you will need to do the same to work here. As for working as a consultant, if you are fully trained you are eligible but we don't just get consultant jobs because we have finished. We have very limited numbers of posts and to get one another consultant basically has to retire or die.

Thank you!

 

[EricaGrl]

Hi,

I've been looking into the same topic myself, as I attend a UK med school, would like to have a UK license if possible but would like to start my internship in the US directly after graduating in 2013.

http://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/registration_applications/acceptable_postgraduate_qualifications.asp has more information.

As of now, the qualifications below are considered equivalent to UK post-grad training. But, you also have to have completed an appropriate internship (more at http://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/before_you_apply/imgs.asp ) AND apply for a UK license with the General Medical Council (GMC) within 3 years of getting your US post-grad qualification. After that, you have to work in an approved practice setting in the first 12 months of your first UK job.


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