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@ Beneli, wats it like for Public Health Specialty

beneli:
The problem that Doctors coming to the UK today from overseas would have, would be in progressing beyond the basic specialist training. For General Practice its slightly different because there the training is just for 3 years, following which you get your certificate of completion of training (CCT). In other specialties, that would be you, just finishing your basic specialist (that's if you've been able to pass all your exams, which in Psychiatry is now 4 in all). Other specialisties take 5-6 years to get the CCT, following which you can get a job as a substantive Consultant and start earning mullas. Not that you can't earn mullas before then, but some people just want to be called 'Consultants'. You don't have to have finished your CCT to do locum Consultant posts though. You can stop at doing middle grade career locums or substantive specialty posts. You'd still be called a Specialist though, if that's what tickles your fancy.


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Hello docs...am planning on taking PLAB frm Mar nxt yr. I hav gone thru most of d pages in this thread and i understand its diffic to get residency spots in d UK xcept in GP and Psychiatry. Is that also true for Public Health Medicine? How diffic can it be to find training posts for Public Health? Any PH specialist in the house....or any1 with som UK experience, help pls!

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