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Medical qualification
BMSc
BMed Sci
Bachelor of Medical Sciences. A degree often taken after three
years of medical studies by students who may wish to follow a
career in medical research.
MBChB, MBBS
BMBCh, BMBS
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. Bachelor degrees
are undergraduate degrees. This is the first degree for UK
doctors.
MD,DM
Doctor of Medicine.
DRCOG
Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
MRCP
MRCS
Member of the Royal College of Physicians or Member of the
Royal College of Surgeons. Doctors become Members by suc-
cessfully completing the assessment procedures in their col-
lege.
FRCS
FRCS (Ed)
FRCS (Glas)
FRCSI
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Other
colleges are indicated by the letters which follow, for example
Edinburgh, Glasgow or Ireland.
How doctors become a Fellow depends on their college. For
the FRCS, further examinations must be passed. For other col-
leges it is by nomination or work assessment.
2. Read and translate.
A student’s view
Ellen, a medical student, describes her course.
I’m just finishing my first year of Medicine. What I like about
this course is that you’re involved with patients from the very begin-
ning. Even in our first year, we spend time in hospital. Much of the
course is PBL (problem-based learning). We have 2-hour sessions a
week where we work in groups of eight to ten solving clinical prob-
lems. We decide together how to tackle the problem, look up books
and online sources, make notes and discuss the case together. It’s a
great way of learning and getting to know the other students. In the
past, medical students had lectures with the whole class taking notes
from lecturers from 9.00 to 5.00, but now it’s mainly group work, alt-
hough we do have some lectures and seminars, where we work in
small groups with a tutor. I like all of it, even the dissection. We get to
cut up cadavers from the second month of the course.