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In order to have your medical degree acknowledged by ECFMG as a valid medical degree, your major must be listed as "medicine" or "clinical medicine". Other majors will not be acknowledged. And your degree must be "bachelor of medicine" or "bachelor of clinical medicine". Master's degree doesn't count. That is, the degree must be first degree of medical education in that country (bachelor of (clinical) medicine in China).
So, the question for students of 7-year schooling period is, do you get two degrees (bachelor of medicine and master of medicine) or only one (master of medicine). If you get both, you are lucky.
For medical graduates from China to practice medicine in the United States, the usual way is to go to an American graduate school first. After being a graduate student for 2 to 4 years, if you are confident about your commanding of English and American culture, you can take USMLE to have your medical degree certified. Then you can apply for residency training.
Residency training for certain specialties is very lengthy. For example, most neurosurgery programs take 7 years to finish. The training in most specialties is much more intensive, compared to residency life in China.
[ 此贴被achilles在2006-12-29 01:50重新编辑 ]