It usually takes five to six years.
Medicine is open to high school graduates. After graduating from high school, students can take the local college entrance examination and apply for medical college courses after meeting all the conditions. Generally, the medical undergraduate course in these areas lasts for five to six years, and then you need to practice in the hospital for one year.
After completing the course, medical students will get the title of "M.B.B.S" (there are many other abbreviations, such as "M.B.Ch.B"), which is equivalent to "Doctor of Medicine" in North America.
Similarly, graduates also need to pass the local practice examination before they can formally practice medicine and continue to be promoted to choose a specialty.
Extended data
Medical education in Chinese mainland, similar to that in Britain and Hongkong, started from the first undergraduate course. Generally, there are five-year, seven-year and eight-year programs, which are awarded bachelor of medicine, master of medicine and doctor of medicine respectively. The seven-year system and the eight-year system are collectively referred to as the long academic system. Graduates who have obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine may take the examination for practicing doctors.
A five-year bachelor of medicine can continue to study for a master of medicine and a doctor of medicine, both of which are three years. A master of medicine who graduated from a seven-year program can continue to study for a doctor of medicine. If he is a doctor of medicine in our school, he can only take the exam to change his major. After passing the exam and interview, he can study for another three years to get a doctorate in medicine.
The first batch of 8-year doctoral students began to enroll from 200 1. Medical education in Taiwan Province Province is similar, but it is mainly seven-year undergraduate medical education (for high school graduates; There are also five-year post-bachelor medical courses for graduates with bachelor's degrees.
Graduates are awarded a bachelor's degree in medicine and can continue their studies in the "Doctor of Clinical Medicine Program (Institute)" (there is no master's program in the Institute of Clinical Medicine). After graduation, they are awarded a doctor's degree in clinical medicine (that is, M.D.-Ph.D in the United States and M.D. in the United Kingdom).