Medical curriculum; where do we stand?
Number of years to become a medical graduate is in bracket in front of the name of the country.
Is vision 2015 is to produce Doctors for the mother land or for USA? Think it over as the duration of course is not less than 5.5 years in Asia.
Africa
Egypt (6+1=7)
Kenya (5+1=6)
Nigeria (6+1)
South Africa (5+3=8)
Tunisia (5+2=7)
Uganda (5+1=6)
Americas
Brazil (4+2=6)
Bolivia (5+1=6)
Haiti (4+2=6)
Chile (5+2=7)
Canada (4+1=5)
El Salvador (8)
Panama (5+1=6)
United States (4+1=5)
A standard 4-year medical degree. In the nineteenth century, there were over four hundred medical schools in the United States. By 1910, the number was reduced to one hundred and forty-eight medical schools and by 1930 the number totaled only seventy-six. Many early medical schools were criticized for being diploma mills that turned out quacks. This and other problems led to the creation of the American Medical Association in 1847 for the purpose of self-regulation of the profession. Abraham Flexner (who in 1910 released the Flexner report with the Carnegie Foundation), the Rockefeller Foundation and the AMA are credited with laying the groundwork for what is now known as the modern medical curriculum.
The standard U.S. medical school curriculum is four years long. Traditionally, the first two years are composed mainly of classroom basic sciences education, while the last two years primarily include rotations in clinical settings where students learn patient care firsthand. Today, clinical education is still spread across all four years, with the final years being more heavily weighted towards clinical rotations.
Upon successful completion of medical school, students are granted the title of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.). Residency training, which is a supervised training period of three to seven years (usually incorporating the 1st year internship), is typically completed for specific areas of specialty. Physicians who sub-specialize or who desire more supervised experience may complete a fellowship, which is an additional one to four years of supervised training in their area of expertise.
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