Posted by Abby on February 20, 2000, at 20:59:16
In reply to Psychopharmacology/Neuroscience, posted by Chris UK on February 20, 2000, at 18:54:55
If you were a physician with years of experience, you would still have to spend a lot of time training as a resident. I don't know how they handle visiting world experts.
Medical school in the U.S. is an almost exclusively post graduate training.
(Boston University has a B.S./M.D. program) Itis very expensive and increasingly difficult to get in.
I believe that it requires 4 years of school plus further training when they start paying you a low salary.
I think that the 4th year is spent working on different rotations.Expect to budget about $45,000/yr for tuition and living expenses at a top ivy league school. Some place like Baylor College (an excellent school in Texas) would be a lot less.for tuition and living expenses. You have to take a long test of basic biology and chemistry called the MCAT which is usually given in the Spring and summer.
I'm sure that the schools would evaluate foreign credentials differently. In the States people get University degrees in History or English before training as doctors.These are the requirements for U.S. Students. At my school the average course load was 4 classes per semester the equivalent of 16 year-long courses.
1 year Biology
1 year chemistry
1 year organic chemistry
1 year physics
basic calculus.You could take the physics over a summer in an intensive course.
If you are an Oxbridge student, then they would look at your course differently.Good luck, though.
Abby
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