How many years in college are required to receive an MD (to practice medicine) in the UK?

Question:

I was doing some research online @ Imperial College London's site (being a prospective international student and all) and I had originally thought that undergrad was three years and grad school was another 3 years.

But after further research, it seems like undergrad years is SIX and to get a grad degree to practice medicine, it would require ANOTHER 4 years.
Is that correct?

I'm unsure seeing as I'm still unfamiliar with the UK schooling system.

advice anyone?

Answer:
3 years undergrad
3 years post grad
1 year House Doctor

A degree in medicine is different from other degrees for obvious reasons. It takes 6 years to qualify as a (junior) doctor in the UK and this training is done in hospitals as well as in university lectures.

EDIT: It's changed since my friend did it about 20 years ago - it's now a 5 year course to qualify as a doctor then a further 2 years foundation training. Have a look here it will explain the process

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/def...

You don't do an MD or grad school in the UK to be a doctor.

Medical school is 5 or 6 years (different unis have different courses and some eg Oxford you do a second degree as well) normally the first 2 /3 years in classroom (pre clinical year) then the next 3 are spent on hospital wards. After that you are technically a doctor but you need to do 1 year as a house officer (most junior doctor) in a hospital before you can begin to specialise.

Then you take more exams to be a surgeon, medical specialist, GP, Oncologist etc. The exams are for things like the royal college of surgeons, not graduate school,although only open to medical graduates. I'm not sure of the cost but no where near the cost of uni as an overseas student.

Oh and oveseas students who graduate in the UK automatically get a work visa for at least 12 months.

One last thing - are you doing any advanced courses at high school? If you were in an English school you would be doing A Levels and I know that English students with A levels are exempt from some US college courses as they are deemed to be equivelant so you may be asked to do a 'foundation year' or some other qualification before starting. Alternatively you could look into scottish unis - the high school system is different in scotland.

firstly u need to take the entry exam for medicine which all medical skools require...

then (if entering after a-level) u will do a total of 5 years with the final year working in a hospital

(if entering after u have a degree) u will do a 4 year course with the final year workin in a hospital

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How many years in college are required to receive an MD (to practice medicine) in the UK?

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