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Do All Foreign Medical Professionals Need To Sit Expensive Exams To Show Their Expertise?
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A Syrian refugee, who had been a dentist in his homeland for more than 20 years, was killed in a traffic açcident near Belfast as he cycled to work in a factory. Apparently, he needed £6000 to sit exam to Show his professional competent.
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I am a bit out of the scene re. conditions required by foreign national to practice, but this link may help.
I am a bit out of the scene re. conditions required by foreign national to practice, but this link may help.
absolute hell
The GMC is run by Sqad cronies who are all jockeyng for honours and enhanced pensions - a vice Sqad is mercifully free of ....
Eu nationals with an EU degree can just walk in BUT must register with the GMC ( money involved of course ) -I cant recollect if they need to a language exam.
EU nationals ( inc GB ) with a not EU degree have to take a qualifying exam ( I think ) more money for GMC
non Eu nationals with an EU degree .... mmmm I think they have to take a qualifying exam
non EU nationals with a non EU degree need plab and language test
AND so..... well you did ask
suppose it is children's neuro .... what should the exam be ?
on paed neuro where he is going to practise ?
or a qualifying exam Sqad took in 1960 like which has all things - psych - gynae and so on in it ?
well it is a MB BS level exam .... so what aboiut his specialism ?
and what about the GMC bleating o yes we are here to protect the public ?
as you can seee it is a complete mess ..... well you did ask .....
Florida has a similar problem with cuban doctors and F has the highest concentration of non registered medical practitioners in the WORLD ( they are all cuban and not allowed to get onto the american health care band wagon )
There is also this system of keeping up skills - o just dont start me on that....
the idea is that a surgeon shouldnt operate on your without being er able to. So what happens to all the pen pushing doctors at the ministry ?
O they revalidate on their specialist subject before they had taken their white coat off - so if you look at the medical director of our local trust - he has validated as a tralsplant surgeon as he pushed his red pen thro all the invoices and building plans on his desk
The GMC is run by Sqad cronies who are all jockeyng for honours and enhanced pensions - a vice Sqad is mercifully free of ....
Eu nationals with an EU degree can just walk in BUT must register with the GMC ( money involved of course ) -I cant recollect if they need to a language exam.
EU nationals ( inc GB ) with a not EU degree have to take a qualifying exam ( I think ) more money for GMC
non Eu nationals with an EU degree .... mmmm I think they have to take a qualifying exam
non EU nationals with a non EU degree need plab and language test
AND so..... well you did ask
suppose it is children's neuro .... what should the exam be ?
on paed neuro where he is going to practise ?
or a qualifying exam Sqad took in 1960 like which has all things - psych - gynae and so on in it ?
well it is a MB BS level exam .... so what aboiut his specialism ?
and what about the GMC bleating o yes we are here to protect the public ?
as you can seee it is a complete mess ..... well you did ask .....
Florida has a similar problem with cuban doctors and F has the highest concentration of non registered medical practitioners in the WORLD ( they are all cuban and not allowed to get onto the american health care band wagon )
There is also this system of keeping up skills - o just dont start me on that....
the idea is that a surgeon shouldnt operate on your without being er able to. So what happens to all the pen pushing doctors at the ministry ?
O they revalidate on their specialist subject before they had taken their white coat off - so if you look at the medical director of our local trust - he has validated as a tralsplant surgeon as he pushed his red pen thro all the invoices and building plans on his desk
.... pen pushing away and he last did a transplant two or three years ago
so as you can see revalidation has its rather deep drawbacks.....
O andthe GMC in its wisdom has said that patient feedback is a integral and vital part of safe regulation ...
[ hey hold on that is not true - Shipman was v popular with his patients and would have walked it - No the GMC said it because the govt said " no knghthoods unless you enforce patient feedback so DO IT ! " and of course the GMC bent their back to the project .... ]
and so pathologists have to do patient feeback - you mean the doctors who ut up bodies have to do a patient feedback cycle ? yup !
who on for chrissakes ?
all their patients are dead arent they ?
so there you are Sandy -current medical regulation in a nut shell
so as you can see revalidation has its rather deep drawbacks.....
O andthe GMC in its wisdom has said that patient feedback is a integral and vital part of safe regulation ...
[ hey hold on that is not true - Shipman was v popular with his patients and would have walked it - No the GMC said it because the govt said " no knghthoods unless you enforce patient feedback so DO IT ! " and of course the GMC bent their back to the project .... ]
and so pathologists have to do patient feeback - you mean the doctors who ut up bodies have to do a patient feedback cycle ? yup !
who on for chrissakes ?
all their patients are dead arent they ?
so there you are Sandy -current medical regulation in a nut shell
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